Tonga Eruption

In December 2021, an eruption began on Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, a submarine volcano in the Tongan archipelago in the southern Pacific Ocean.

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New trigger proposed for record-smashing 2022 Tonga eruption

Explosion As Powerful as Five Nuclear Bombs: Hidden Trigger of Hunga Tonga Eruption Revealed

Record amount of water from 2022 Tonga eruption is still in atmosphere

Severed Cables, Altered Seafloors: Massive Hunga-Tonga Eruption Triggered Destructive Submarine Volcanic Flows

The Hunga Tonga eruption sparked the highest-altitude lightning ever recorded

The Most Intense Lightning Storm Ever Recorded Was Sparked by the Hunga Tonga Eruption

Tonga Eruption Triggered Massive 'Equatorial Plasma Bubble'

The 2022 Tonga Eruption Created a Very Rare 'Super Plasma Bubble' in The Ionosphere

The Tonga Eruption Was So Powerful it Disrupted Satellites Half a World Away

Tonga Eruption May Temporarily Push Earth Closer to 1.5°C of Warming

Looking back at the Tonga eruption

Hunga Tonga undersea volcano eruption likely to make ozone hole larger in coming years

The Tonga Eruption Is Still Revealing New Volcanic Dangers

2022 Tonga eruption means we may hit 1.5°C of global warming earlier

Tonga eruption’s towering plume was the tallest in recorded history

Tonga eruption's volcanic plume reached above the stratosphere twice

The Tonga Eruption's 50 Million Tons of Water Vapor May Warm Earth For Months to Come