A volcanic eruption in the South Pacific was so powerful that its shockwaves left the planet and reached space, new research shows. The 2022 underwater Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai eruption, one of the ...
Fifteen minutes before the massive January 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, a seismic wave was recorded by two distant seismic stations. The researchers propose that the seismic ...
A new international scientific assessment of the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai eruption has explained why the largest volcanic plume ever measured cooled the stratosphere instead of heating it. The ...