The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga on 15 January 2022 created 90-metre excessive tsunamis and shot ash 57 kilometres into the sky
Earth
14 December 2022
The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga on 15 January was probably the most highly effective of the twenty first century to this point.
The volcano, which is 20 kilometres broad at its base and principally lies underwater north of Tonga’s major island, Tongatapu, erupted with a volcanic explosivity index of 6, making it probably the most explosive eruption since that of Mount Pinatubo within the Philippines in 1991. The blast shot ash 57 kilometres into the sky.
Tsunami waves attributable to the explosion have been initially 90 metres excessive and have been nonetheless as much as 18 metres excessive by the point they …