2 days agoThe Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Haapai volcano first erupted Friday sending a plume of ash 20 kilometers 124 miles into the air according to RNZ. One 100-meter tall ridge has been demolished another damaged the two small ridges 3 km south also appear to have gone.
The Undersea Volcano On The Small Uninhabited Islet Of Hunga Ha Apai 63 Kilometres 39 Miles Northwest Of The Tongan Volcano Islands Volcano Ocean Underwater
The pressure wave from the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption having travelled a distance of 16500 km 10200 miles has been detected across East Anglia this evening on home weather.
. Then there is the explosion deafening 60 km away heard across the. This latest eruption occurred on an island known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai which is little more than seven. The previously twin islands of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Haʻapai were merged by a volcanic eruption in 2009 and a more explosive eruption separated.
This was not a small event. 22 hours agoHunga Tonga Hunga Haapai erupted several times over the past few decades with notable eruptions in 2014 and 2015 when it formed. Hunga Tonga and Hunga Haapai are small islands situated on the rim of a submarine caldera known by the names of the two islands Hunga Tonga and Hunga Haapai figure 12.
1 day agoThe damage to Hunga Tonga is considerable. When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai volcano erupted in 2015 scientists did not expect the land mass it formed to last. Local time RNZ reported.
2 days agoThe vast majority roughly 70 of residents live on the main island of Tongatapu. A second eruption hit on Saturday at 526 pm. 2 days agoThe Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai volcano erupted for the second time in 2 days triggering a tsunami that hit the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga.
Hunga TongaHunga Haʻapai was an uninhabited volcanic island that existed in the South Pacific from 2009 to 2022 located about 30 km 19 mi south of the submarine volcano of Fonuafoʻou and 65 km 40 mi north of Tongatapu Tongas main island. 1 day agoSeismologists say this is the biggest eruption from the Hunga Tonga Hunga Haapai volcano. 1 day agoHe wrote.
The cloud was 30 km high. Tsunami waves have flooded the Pacific island nation of Tonga after an undersea volcano the Hunga Tonga. The 2014-2015 surtseyan eruption added a circular area of land over 100 m in elevation at a spot S of and about midway along Hunga Haapai islands length.
That is convection driven and requires a lot of heat.
