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Scientists Identify the Highest-Ever Recorded Volcanic Plume

The January 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano produced the highest-ever recorded volcanic plume. Using satellite images, researchers at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics and RAL Space confirmed this. The colossal eruption is also the first to have been directly observed to have broken through to the mesosphere layer of the ...

Troy Oakes

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano.

Why the Tonga Volcanic Eruption Has Revolutionized Volcanology

In January 2022, Tonga experienced a volcanic eruption confirmed to be the most enormous explosion that has even been documented through modern methodologies and instrumentations. The impacts of the record-breaking Tonga eruption were so substantial that a subsequent tsunami occurred. Other than that, about 85,000 individuals were directly affected by the catastrophe. Given Tonga’s small ...

Mike West

Eruption of the Tonga volcano.