It seemed to come out of nowhere. Eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai volcano On 15th january 2022 On Saturday, late afternoon local time a huge explosive volcanic eruption occurred in the western Pacific Ocean in the Tonga Islands . The Tonga Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Haapai volcanic eruption, tsunami and ashfall has caused an estimated US$90.4M (TOP 208 million) in damages the equivalent of approximately 18.5% of Tongas Gross Domestic Product (GDP) a World Bank assessment for the Government of Tonga has found. The greatest eruption in recorded history occurred in January 2022 when the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted. New research by an international team from 17 countries including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientist Keehoon Kim demonstrates that, based on atmospheric pressure A new study recently confirmed that the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai submarine volcano in January this year was one of the most combustive volcanic occurrences of the modern era. The Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Haapai volcano near Tonga in the South Pacific erupted with such force on 15 January that it is thought to be the biggest eruption recorded anywhere on the planet in 30 years.
On Jan. 15, the undersea volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai near the South Pacific island nation of Tonga erupted. These images were acquired by the Advanced Baseline Imager instrument, aboard the GOES-West (currently, GOES-17) satellite.Click on the play button in the lower left corner, The first of three expulsions began that morning at 0935 local time as the underwater volcano spewed a steam plume reaching 16 kilometers into the atmosphere at its acme. For many years, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano poked above the waves as a pair of narrow rocky isles, one named Hunga Tong and the other Hunga Ha'apai. Six months on from the violent eruption of Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, plans are underway to relocate residents from one of the worst impacted islands. The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Volcano in January 2022 was the largest our planet has seen in decades, wreaking destruction on the island nation of Tonga in which the volcano resides. When it erupted in mid-January, it created clouds of ash that were up to 25 miles high and triggered tsunami warnings for nearby islands in the South Pacific. Volcanic eruptions can impact climate, but Friday's near Tonga might be too small to make a noticeable difference. Tonga volcano: How do volcanic eruptions affect the climate? BOULDER, Colo. Weather satellites captured a massive explosion from a volcano known as Hunga Tonga in the south Pacific Ocean on Friday. The eruption was one of the most powerful in recorded history, with audible sound detected over 6,200 miles away. Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai, located in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga, has erupted three times in less than thirty days. Tonga Geological Services via Reuters Volcanic Tsunami. At least three people have died in Tonga following the massive volcanic eruption and subsequent tsunami wave that hit over the weekend. We will keep a close eye on the global volcanic activity, informing you of any significant development. The eruptions sent a plume of ash, gas and steam 20 kilometers into the air, according to RNZ. The gas, steam, and ash plume produced during that eruption rose into the stratosphere and drifted W. Based on volcanic ash advisories issued by the Wellington VAAC and then by the Darwin VAAC, the horizontal extent of the plume grew 15 June 2022. The explosive eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai created a sonic boom heard as far north as Alaska. The Hunga eruption, near the island of Tonga, has provided unprecedented insight into the behavior of some atmospheric waves. This looping video shows a series of GOES-17 satellite images that caught an umbrella cloud generated by the underwater eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai volcano on Jan. 15, 2022. It also triggered a tsunami that destroyed homes on nearby islands before crossing the ocean to the coasts of Japan and North and South America. Eruption episodes consisting of relatively low-energy subsurface eruptions in 2009 and 20142015 had built a tephra cone that connected the established islands of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Haapai on the northwestern portion of the volcano. The Tongan volcano may be the cause. The January 15 eruption of the undersea Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano about 65km north of Tonga's capital Nukualofa killed at least three people. The eruption was so powerful that it could be heard thousands of kilometres away. New research has confirmed that the eruption was the most explosive volcanic event in the modern era. The two parts, the two islands that existed before 2015, are called Hunga-Haapai and Hunga Tonga. Recently, a volcano erupted in the southern Pacific Island of Tonga, which triggered Tsunami waves around the Pacific. The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai undersea volcano eruption is thought to be the largest volcanic event in 30 years. The Hunga-Tonga eruption was so powerful that it sent a rare pressure wave rippling around the world. Hunga TongaHunga Ha'apai ( (listen)) is a submarine volcano in the South Pacific located about 30 km (19 mi) south of the submarine volcano of Fonuafoou and 65 km (40 mi) north of Tongatapu, Tonga's main island. The Eruption from Tonga volcano was so strong, that it sent a measurable and visible shockwave across the entire world. This climactic eruption (the largest eruption of an episode) began just after ~04:00 UTC (~17:00 local time) from a submerged vent and delivered volcanic tephra and gas primarily into the stratosphere. The January 2022 eruption of the Hunga volcano in Tonga was the largest volcanic eruption in the 21st century, and the largest recorded since the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, 2022, it sent atmospheric shock waves, sonic booms, and tsunami waves around the world. On Saturday, the centre of the volcano sank, disappearing under the sea. Six months on from the violent eruption of Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, plans are underway to relocate residents from one of the worst impacted islands. Hunga is a largely submerged volcano located ~65 km (~40 miles) to the north-northwest of Tonga. Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai volcano located in the Kingdom of Tonga produced a powerful eruption on January 15 just after 5 p.m. Tonga Time (TOT). On December 20, 2021, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano began a series of eruptions that would become the largest volcanic event of the satellite era to date. Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai is located about 64 kilometers (40 miles) north of the Tongan capital city of Nukualofa. Studies of this volcano can help us understand the causes and effects of such massive eruptions, and may even give insight into Hunga Tongas eruption was a true spectacle, but rarer still was the resulting tsunami. Dramatic Changes at Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai. In the last week, it was discovered that the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai volcano is still erupting. The eruption sent shock waves around the world and a plume of ash into the upper atmosphere.
The eruption of the Hunga TongaHunga Haapai volcano in the southern Pacific Ocean on 15 January 2022 had a strong effect on the signals of satellite instruments used by ECMWF. The latest estimates of the effect of Hunga Tonga are that the cooling impact will be smaller, because the amount of sulfur dioxide was only 2% of what the Pinatubo eruption released. According to Barlow, the Hunga Tonga explosion appears to be the strongest single burst of volcanic energy released in 140 years, since the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia in 1883.
When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai volcano erupted under the waters of the Pacific Ocean on January 15, its roar was heard nearly 6,000 miles away in Alaska. Tonga, which Studies of this volcano can help us understand the causes and effects of such massive eruptions, and may even give insight into Here we present some of those signals and explain their meaning. The VEI-5 millennium eruption of Hunga Tonga. Hunga TongaHunga Haapai is 65 km (40 mi) north of Tongatapu, the country's main island, and is part of the highly active TongaKermadec Islands volcanic arc, a subduction zone extending from New Zealand north-northeast to Fiji. On 15 January 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai underwater volcano erupted, triggering a devastating tsunami and blanketing many of Tongas islands in a thick layer of volcanic ash. On Jan. 15, the undersea volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai near the South Pacific island nation of Tonga erupted. Analyzing data from NASAs Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, mission and ESAs (the European Space Agency) Swarm April 10, 2021 JPEG. The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai volcano is located about 30km south-east of Fonuafo'ou island in Tonga. The Tongan volcanic eruption may be responsible for New Zealands unusually vibrant sunrises and sunsets, say NIWA scientists. It is now gone. The eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano is thought to be a once-in-a-lifetime event. This gives new meaning to "out of this world." The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai submarine volcano in January 2022 was one of the most explosive volcanic events of the modern era, a new study has confirmed. The aerosols come from the plume of gas and ash ejected when Tongas Hunga Haapai volcano erupted in January and created volcanic twilights known as afterglows. This was the latest in a series of eruptions, there was no warning of the severity of this eruption and no opportunity to prepare for it. This 2014-2015 eruption followed 5 years of quiescence, the previous eruption having occurred in 2009 (BGVN 34:03).That 2009 eruption formed new land above water and deposits destroyed vegetation on neighboring Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai islands (BGVN 34:03).The 2009 eruption added land at the S end of Hunga Ha'apai island. Hunga-Tonga isnt expected to cool the climate much. Volcanic eruption was so extreme, it reached space. The extent of the ash plume can be seen, as well as multiple rippling gravity waves emanating outward. via ESA. As with many volcanoes in Tonga, the part of the volcano that is visible above water is small compared to the submarine extent of the edifice and eruptions can alternately grow new land or destroy any islands that are formed. The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai submarine volcano eruption on 15 January generated gravity waves that circled the globe six times, and The island of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai is uninhabited, but impacts from the blast quickly spread. The Hunga Tonga Haapai volcano is located in the Ring of Fire, a chain of volcanoes that spreads across the Pacific Ocean. The eruption was one of the most powerful in recorded history, with audible sound detected over 6,200 miles away. sulfur dioxide from Tonga eruption spreads over Australia and across the world. Sending tsunami waves across the Pacific, the effects of this underwater eruption were felt as far away as the United States and Japan. The eruption sent shock waves around the world and a plume of ash into the upper atmosphere. Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai had been separate islands until they were united by eruptions from the volcano's main vent, which created a NOAAs GOES-17 satellite captured the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano on 13 January 2022 (Figure 1). A powerful volcanic eruption has obliterated a small, uninhabited South Pacific island known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai. Lightning is a common sight with volcanic eruptions, but Hunga Tonga put on one amazing show when it erupted. Pinatubo, which is considered similar to the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai eruption, scored a 6 on the index. The Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano, which lies about 30 kilometers from Tonga's Fonuafo'ou island, first erupted on Friday and a second time on Saturday around 5:26 pm local time, according to CNN affiliate Radio New Zealand (RNZ). The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai volcano erupted in January this year and produced the largest atmospheric explosion in recorded history. A new analysis has verified that the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai undersea volcano in January 2022 was among the most explosive volcanic eruptions ever recorded. This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows an overview of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai volcano in Tonga on Jan. 6, 2022, before a huge undersea volcanic eruption. However the underwater explosion reached far up into the stratosphere, nearly 40km altitude, so those particulates may be
The eruption at Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai has been building up over the past 20 years. It is part of the highly active Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone and its associated volcanic arc, which extends from New Zealand north-northeast to Fiji, and is formed by t It had been active from December 20, 2021, but was declared dormant on January 11. A new study recently confirmed that the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai submarine volcano in January this year was one of the most combustive volcanic occurrences of the modern era. New research has confirmed that the eruption was the most explosive volcanic event in the modern era. An extremely energetic eruption . The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai volcano erupted in January this year and produced the largest atmospheric explosion in recorded history. The explosive eruption the Pacific nation of Tonga whose main island is just 40 miles south of the volcano remains unclear since communication hasnt been reestablished with the entire country. At the same time, the powerful natural event The Tonga eruption was recorded on pressure sensors over a wide number of places around the world, including the Island of Hawaii about 4,900 kilometers (3,000 miles) away. The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, located near Tonga in the South Pacific, violently erupted on January 15, 2022 and released enough ash and gas to cover an area of 157,000 square kilometres, which is larger than the state of Georgia. 13 January eruption. As explained by NIWA hydrodynamics scientist and tsunami expert Dr Emily Lane, most tsunami are triggered by underwater earthquakes, only about 5 percent of historical tsunamis have been caused by volcanic eruptions, Tonga had little warning before it was hit by a tsunami generated by the volcano. It is an Undersea Volcanic Eruption consisting of two small uninhabited islands, Hunga-Haapai and Hunga-Tonga. "Over that time, the magma has been building up inside the edifice, and it's been slowly sort of releasing gas. 2.21 MB. Ash from the Hunga Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcanic eruption is going to suffocate plants and turn rain into acid, scientists have said. About the Eruption. New eruptions are not excluded from the Hunga Tonga volcano, including a repeat of yesterdays (Jan 15) eruption.