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Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai eruption as seen from the GOES satellite. Credit: NASA/ NOAA
Tonga's strange volcanic eruption was even more massive than we knew
November 22, 2022

In December 2021, a volcano in the Kingdom of Tonga, known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, began erupting in an event that culminated in an explosion so powerful it sent atmospheric ripples circling the planet multiple times.

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Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai eruption as seen from the GOES satellite. Credit: NASA/ NOAA
Tonga volcano eruption stimulates life: Rapid, massive bloom of ocean phytoplankton
October 13, 2022

In January 2022, the largest submarine volcanic eruption of this century led to a dramatic phytoplankton bloom north of the island of Tongatapu, in the Kingdom of Tonga.

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Credit - Lauren Dauphin/NASA Earth Observatory
‘Baby’ island appears in Pacific Ocean after underwater volcano erupts
September 26, 2022

The Central Tonga Islands welcomed the birth of a new baby – a baby island, that is. The new baby island emerged in the southwest Pacific Ocean, where underwater volcanoes are plentiful.

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The uninhabited volcanic island of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai erupted on Saturday. Photo: Tonga Geological Services
Explainer: Tonga’s volcanic eruption may harm environment for years, scientists say
January 20, 2022

Tonga’s massive underwater volcanic eruption could deliver long-lasting damage to coral reefs, erode coastlines and disrupt fisheries, say scientists studying satellite images and looking to the past to project the future of the remote region...Tonga’s exclusive economic zone of nearly

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Volcanoes of the World - Global Volcanism Program

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The Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program (GVP) is housed in the Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History, in Washington D.C. We are devoted to a better understanding of Earth's active volcanoes and their eruptions during the last 10,000 years.

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