The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai submarine volcano in January 2022 was one of the most explosive volcanic events of the modern era, a new study has confirmed. Led by researchers from the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When an undersea volcano erupted in Tonga in January, its watery blast was huge and unusual — and scientists are still trying to understand its impacts. The volcano, known as Hunga ...

Aerial images show the devastation in Tonga left behind after a violent offshore volcanic eruption sparked a tsunami and clouded the sky with ash. Communications with the island nation have largely ...

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 ...

Las Vegas’ record-setting heat is miserable. Is it global warming? Or is it something else? On Sunday, Las Vegas hit a record 120 degrees. Temperatures are expected to remain high all week. The daily ...

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano blasted gas and ash 30 miles into the atmosphere, it definitely made waves. The question is, what kind? The eruption may have been the largest in a half ...

A volcano 5,000 feet under the Pacific Ocean is boiling and can erupt in the coming days. Located miles from the Oregon coast, the Axial Seamount has triggered several small earthquakes in the region ...

An advisory was previously issued for the entire U.S. West Coast and Alaska. The National Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami advisory for American Samoa after another undersea volcano eruption ...

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent a tsunami racing around the world and set off a sonic boom that circled the globe twice. The underwater eruption in the South ...

When Hunga erupted in 2022, ash "decimated" slow-moving species living on the seafloor. More mobile species were able to hoof it out of harm's way. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...