An image from the capital, Nuku’alofa, shows damage following Saturday's tsunami New pictures have emerged from Tonga, revealing the damage wreaked by tsunami waves triggered by an undersea volcano.

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 ...

Researchers found a unique seismic signal just before the January 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano, ...

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 ...

It may take as much as two weeks to fully restore communications in Tonga after a massive volcanic blast that triggered a tsunami. Some of the islands' communications and power have now been ...