The Hunga Tonga underwater volcano was one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history, and now, two years later, new research has revealed its main trigger. The Hunga Tonga underwater volcano ...

The 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano may have been triggered by the release of underground energy totaling as much as five nukes exploding all at once, scientists have found. Until this ...

Citation: Tongan volcanic eruption triggered by explosion equivalent to 'five underground nuclear bombs,' new research reveals (2024, October 1) retrieved 22 October 2024 from https://phys.org ...

"Our findings confirm there was an explosion, possibly due to a gas-compressed rock, which released energy that equated to ...

Sometimes eruptions are explosive and lava is thrown out as volcanic bombs. Hotspots are places where the magma rises up through the crust. They are caused by a static source of magma, often away ...

Representative Image For two years, scientists were perplexed by what could have triggered the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption, which came to be considered one of the largest ...

The Hunga Tonga underwater volcano was one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history, and now, two years later, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) has revealed its main ...

While that may seem crazy to some, there's a myriad of reasons why people call these volcanic landscapes home. Fertile soils frequently blanket their slopes thanks to the slow breakdown of ancient ...

But not always. In fact, most volcanic eruptions are harmless—and the latest outburst on the island of Hawaii was one of the loveliest displays of volcanism in quite some time. Earlier this ...

Charlotte Lytton and Matthew Abbott traveled to Tonga to report this story. All photographs were made in May 2023. Sept. 1 at 6:00 a.m. Warning: This graphic requires ...