While the Tonga volcanic eruption may have seemed like a relatively unpredictable event, researchers have discovered a ...

Seismic data collected before the massive Hunga Tonga eruption in 2022 could point to a new kind of early warning system for ...

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 ...

The eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (HTHH) in January 2022 ejected about 2.9 billion tons of volcanic material into the atmosphere and across the South Pacific. In early 2022, a scientific ...

The Hunga Tonga underwater volcano was one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history ... event that happened in 1991 that ...

More information: Takuro Horiuchi et al, A Seismic Precursor 15 min Before the Giant Eruption of Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai Volcano on 15 January 2022, Geophysical Research Letters (2024). DOI ...

A Seismic Precursor 15 min Before the Giant Eruption of Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai Volcano on 15 January 2022. Geophysical Research Letters , 2024; 51 (21) DOI: 10.1029/2024GL111144 Cite This Page : ...

In a volcanic event of this size, the effects can be felt around ... Let’s take a look at how the effects of the Hunga Tonga eruption were captured and measured across the globe.

Two years ago, the Hunga Tonga underwater volcano ... believe that the Tonga eruption is the “best instrumentally recorded” ...

According to local media, some 80,000 people in Tonga have been affected by the eruption and even two fatalities were reported. The activity of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano generated high ...

While Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai is far from population centers, the eruption sent out large tsunamis that killed at least four people in Tonga, as well as two in Peru some 10,000 km (6,200 miles ...

WASHINGTON — 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. Now, researchers ...