An island country offering unspoilt white sandy beaches encompassed by some of the most pristine coral reefs left on the ...

For two years, scientists were perplexed by what could have triggered the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai volcano ... as high as 45 meters at nearby islands. Using seismic waveform modeling ...

Charlotte Lytton and Matthew Abbott traveled to Tonga to report this story. All photographs were made in May 2023. Sept. 1 at 6:00 a.m. Warning: This graphic requires ...

Moments before one of the largest underwater volcanic eruptions smothered the Pacific island of Tonga, a strange signal happened. Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai erupted in January 2022, creating an ...

The volcanic eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai back ... (30.1 acres), which is roughly 2,000 times smaller than Tonga’s main island, Tongatapu; and around 6,500 times smaller than New ...

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 headlines as the country of ...

This speck rose from the sea in January between two established uninhabited volcanic islands - Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai - joining them together into one larger land mass. The island was ...

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano ... It is a country in the southwest Pacific consisting of more than 170 small islands.

These islands also represent natural laboratories for understanding ... Climate cooling: the surprising effect of the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption Icelandic eruptions: A significant toxic cloud ...

James Garvin, chief scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, has explained the eruption of the Hunga ... 170 islands of the archipelago, covering practically everything. The Tonga ...