Dec 25, 2025 · The atmosphere is still feeling the effects of the January 2022 eruption of the Hunga-Tonga volcano in the southern Pacific Ocean

Dec 22, 2025 · A rare underwater eruption at Hunga Tonga sent water vapor into Earth’s atmosphere, cooling the stratosphere and reshaping climate science.

The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano has seven historical recorded eruptions. The most recent eruption, in January 2022, triggered a tsunami that reached the coasts of Japan and the Americas, …

Apr 30, 2025 · Research on Tonga's devastating 2022 Hunga eruption has just been published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Dec 19, 2025 · A new international scientific assessment provides a comprehensive analysis of the atmospheric effects of the 2022 eruption of the Hunga volcano, the most explosive event of the …

Aug 2, 2022 · When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent a tsunami racing around the world and set off a sonic boom that circled the globe twice.

Dec 22, 2025 · Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai reach an elevation of only 149 m and 128 m above sea level, respectively, and display inward-facing sea cliffs with lava and tephra layers dipping gently …

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano includes small islands and shallow submarine reefs along the caldera rim of a much larger submarine edifice in the western South Pacific Ocean (figure 25), west …

Dec 19, 2025 · The eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano in the South Pacific on 15 January 2022 produced the largest underwater explosion ever recorded by modern scientific …

Jul 4, 2025 · The Hunga eruption was nothing short of historic. Not only did it blast through the ocean’s surface with the force of hundreds of Hiroshima bombs, it also generated tsunamis, broke …