The moment an underwater volcano violently erupted in Tonga has been captured by satellite imagery. Speeded-up footage from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows the eruption ...

A 2022 satellite photo shows smoke rising from a caldera on Tofua, highlighting the "looming threat" of the volcanic island.

When Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, an underwater volcano near Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean, erupted in 2022, scientists ...

Then, a roar from below the water. The towering undersea volcano known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai had awakened, and on a balmy afternoon in January 2022 it began blasting its insides into the ...

The ground is cracked and crumbling. There's a whiff of sulphur. Massive eruptions of rock and ash from a volcano in Tonga created this new land in January. The baby island bubbled from the ocean ...

The uninhabited island volcano would quickly make ... The pressure wave from the Tonga eruption as captured by the NOAA’s GOES-WEST satellite’s infrared radiance data. Animation credit ...

This satellite image taken by Himawari-8 ... the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano first formed between December 2014 and January 2015.

Continue reading One of the Ha'apai region's most famous inhabitants is the underwater Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai volcano ... is just out of shot in the satellite image. In "Tongan myths and ...