Rare sonar mapping—conducted before and after an undersea volcano erupted off the coast of Tonga in 2022—has uncovered the unique reasons for its deadly tsunami.

A devastating volcanic eruption that shook the South Pacific in 2022 may have unexpectedly provided scientists with a glimpse of a potential new way to combat climate change. According to a new study ...

Researchers say the tsunami from the Hunga volcano near Tonga may have been intensified when the volcano's structure ...

Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) said on the 14th that it had identified that a large-scale "piston-type collapse" ...

Krakatau, a volcanic island in Indonesia, killed more than 30,000 people when it erupted in 1883. One might assume that volcanic debris posed the major threat, yet many of the victims died from a ...

As American Samoa is within Hawaiian Volcano Observatory’s area of responsibility (the Hawaiian and Samoan archipelagoes exist because of hot spot volcanism), observatory staff have visited at least ...

Every single house on Mango Island was swept away by the tsunami that radiated out when the submarine volcano Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha’apai exploded off the coast of Tonga in 2022. Only two buildings ...