When the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano erupted on January 15, 2022, it wasn’t just a local impact. The explosion punched through the stratosphere and sent ripples into the edge of space ...

An underwater volcano erupted in January near the Pacific nation of Tonga and sent massive pressure waves racing through Earth's atmosphere, where they lapped the planet several times.

The global tsunami and atmospheric waves that followed the eruption of the Tongan volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai were observed around the world. Analysing the data could reshape our ...

Their results suggest that the atmospheric waves produced by the volcano lapped Earth at least six times and reached speeds up to 1,050 feet (320 meters) per second. "The eruption was an amazing ...

The underwater volcano became active in December 2021 and eventually erupted on January 15, 2022. In the weeks leading up to the eruption, the volcano began to spew a dense plume of black ash ...

Following the 3,000th orbit of NASA's AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) aboard the International Space Station, researchers publicly released the mission's first trove of scientific data, crucial ...

A formidable underwater volcano created the twin islands of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha‘apai. Then, on Jan. 15, that volcano destroyed them. The historic eruption was also energetic enough to ...

Tonga volcano eruption was the biggest in over a century and it reached space, studies say. ... which are the most dominant atmospheric pressure waves created by volcanic eruptions.

This article is republished from Eos.org under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. On April 2, 2024, a shower of fireballs lit up the night sky over Los Angeles and much of ...

The tremendous eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano was the blast heard and seen around the world. Shock waves rippled at least twice around the globe, moving at the speed of sound as ...

The massive eruption from the underwater Tonga volcano earlier this year generated a blast so powerful, it sent the fastest pressure waves ever observed in our atmosphere rippling around the globe.