The record-breaking eruption occurred on January 15, 2022. The eruption’s 36-mile-high (58-kilometer-high) volcanic plume was the largest ever recorded, and reached Earth’s mesosphere in just half an ...

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 ...

For instance, a recent study found that the enormous amount of aerosols and water vapor emitted by the Tonga eruption had a ...

Fifteen minutes before the massive January 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, a seismic wave was ...

The dust has hampered relief planes from landing and delivering much-needed food and drinking water. Consulate of the Kingdom of Tonga The island of Tongatapu has been coated in a layer of ...

Leka Anitema said her mother-in-law was rationing her water and also sweeping volcanic ... Britain and China have been delivering assistance, though Tonga went into a lockdown on Wednesday after ...

According to their research, the amount of water uplifted was enough to fill about one million standard Olympic-sized swimming pools. The Hunga Tonga event was short in duration, but it was one of ...

Silent precursor to a violent eruption Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai is an oceanic volcano in the ... injecting 58,000 Olympic swimming pools of water vapor into the stratosphere, setting off an ...

The eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (HTHH) in January 2022 ejected about 2.9 billion tons of volcanic material into the ...