Researchers found a unique seismic signal just before the January 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano, ...

It may take as much as two weeks to fully restore communications in Tonga after a massive volcanic blast that triggered a tsunami. Some of the islands' communications and power have now been ...

An image from the capital, Nuku’alofa, shows damage following Saturday's tsunami New pictures have emerged from Tonga, revealing the damage wreaked by tsunami waves triggered by an undersea volcano.

Tsunami waves were observed in Tonga's capital and the capital of American Samoa, a U.S.-based tsunami monitor said, following the eruption at 0410 GMT of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai underwater ...

The record-breaking eruption occurred on January 15, 2022. The eruption’s 36-mile-high (58-kilometer-high) volcanic plume was ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck near the Pacific nation of Tonga on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said, but there was no threat of a tsunami.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A strong earthquake struck the South Pacific Island nation of Tonga on Monday, but there were no tsunami warnings or immediate reports of damage. The quake had a ...

Silent precursor to a violent eruption Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai is an oceanic volcano in the western Pacific Ocean ... setting off an unprecedented lightning storm and generating a tsunami. That ...

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 ...

A local resident watches the coastal area from Hiyoriyama Park after a tsunami warning was issued after an underwater volcano eruption on the island of Tonga at the South Pacific. [Reuters ...

Seismic activity recorded before Tonga eruption may inform future tsunami alerts, aiding early-warning systems in oceanic areas.