It’s been nearly half a year since the violent eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai volcano in the southwestern Pacific. It was clear when I wrote about this eruption in January that something ...

The Kingdom of Tonga doesn’t often attract global attention, but a violent eruption of an underwater volcano on January 15 has spread shock waves, quite literally ...

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In Roland Emmerich’s 2012 (streaming now on Peacock!) the world runs head on into a catastrophic apocalypse, complete with earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes. In the real world, we survived the ...

The ancient Tongan phrase for tsunami is peau kula, which translates to red wave. The deeper meaning of the words became clear to Taaniela Kula, the head of Tonga’s Geological Services, when he ...

The island was destroyed by the same volcano that formed it seven years before. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An island near ...

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted in Tonga in January 2022, it became the largest eruption ever recorded with modern technology. The blast, estimated to be hundreds of times stronger ...

On the 14th of January, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano began a gigantic eruption that would go on to peak in ferocity the next day. The uninhabited island volcano would quickly make ...

SYDNEY >> Three of Tonga’s smaller islands suffered serious damage from tsunami waves, officials and the Red Cross said Wednesday, as a wider picture begins to emerge of the destruction caused by the ...

The tremendous eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano was the blast heard and seen around the world. Shock waves rippled at least twice around the globe, moving at the speed of sound as ...

The Kingdom of Tonga doesn’t often attract global attention, but a violent eruption of an underwater volcano on January 15 has spread shock waves, quite literally, around half the world. The volcano ...