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

Tonga eruption as viewed from a satellite. The air pressure perturbations associated with the initial wave front was seen clearly on thousands of barometer records throughout the world.

A zoomed-in view of the eruption, taken by Japan's Himawari-8 satellite at 04:50 UTC on 15 January 2022, about 50 minutes after the eruption started. Photo credit: Simon Proud / Uni Oxford ...

Shock waves triggered by a massive underwater volcanic eruption near Tonga on Jan. 15 ... according to an analysis of images captured by Japan’s Himawari weather satellite.

Let’s take a look at how the effects of the Hunga Tonga eruption were captured and ... island was almost entirely destroyed, with satellite images taken in the aftermath shown only a small ...

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 ...

Two years ago, the Hunga Tonga underwater volcano erupted with ... was documented using various monitoring systems, such as ...

The force of the Jan. 15 eruption of an undersea volcano near the Tonga islands in the South Pacific was said to have been similar to, or slightly greater than, that of the 1707 event. The ...