The Latest Breaking News from Tonga

‘We’ve been the only communications link between Vava’u and the rest of the world,’ Kate Walker said.

On Jan. 15, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga erupted, sending a tsunami racing across the Pacific Ocean in all directions.

The ongoing volcanic eruption in Tonga began in December 2021, but it wasn’t until 5:15pm local time on January 15 2022 that the powerful explosion occurred. It generated an enormous cloud of ash, earthquakes, and tsunamis that reached as far as the distant coastlines of Peru on the other side…

A telecommunications blackout is further complicating the delivery of aid to the volcano-stricken island.

A violent volcanic eruption in Tonga impacted on the atmospheric pressure almost 10,000 miles away in Stirling. Hunga Tonga is a submarine volcano that has been active in the South Pacific since 2009. The volcano erupted on Saturday, with numerous

Ash plume from the explosion may have reached a height of 20 kilometres, say experts

Wellington (AFP) - Tonga finished removing a thick coat of volcanic ash from an international runway Wednesday after days of painstaking effort, clearing the way for desperately needed emergency aid to arrive in the isolated, disaster-stricken nation.

The eruption of the undersea volcano near Tonga over the weekend was incredibly explosive but also relatively brief

A British man living in Tonga said the volcano eruption was “like bombs going off around the place” as the first images showed the total devastation caused by the tsunami.

Scientists warn ash posing significant health threat.

Three of Tonga’s smaller islands have suffered serious damage from tsunami waves, officials and the Red Cross say, as a wider picture begins to emerge of the destruction caused by the eruption of an undersea volcano near the Pacific archipelago nation