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Tonga struggles with ash, psychological trauma after eruption and tsunami
Families have prevented children from playing outside as Tonga struggles to deal with the ash and psychological effects of last week's volcanic eruption and tsunami, aid workers and local residents said. Telephone service interrupted. The Red Cross said it was providing 173 households on the main island of Tonga not only with tents, food, water and…
The Eruption in Tonga May Have Been the Largest in Half a Century
All that remains of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai after the January 15, 2022 eruption. Streaks of pumice rafts cross the area as well. Credit: Planet, January 18, 2022.When Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai unexpectedly exploded unlike any volcano is decades, the only information we had was from satellites. The tsunami and eruption knocked out most communication between Tonga…
Ash Blanketing Tonga after Volcano Eruption Creates Health Concerns
The massive and deadly eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano stunned the world when it sent a huge plume of gas, ash and other debris hurtling into the atmosphere last weekend. The mushrooming brown cloud was clearly visible in satellite images. As the plume drifted, ash fell on other islands in the Polynesian nation…
Ash from Tonga volcano eruption reaches record altitude but climate cooling unlikely
Home News The remnants of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai island in Polynesia that was blasted apart by a powerful volcanic eruption on Jan. 15. (Image credit: Copernicus/ Sentinel Hub) The volcanic eruption that destroyed a small island in Polynesia on Saturday (Jan. 15) injected a huge amount of ash into a record altitude but won't…
EXPLAINER: Why Tonga eruption was so big and what’s next
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — People around the world looked on in awe at the spectacular satellite images of an undersea volcano erupting in a giant mushroom cloud in the Pacific. Many wondered why the blast was so big, how the resulting tsunami traveled so far, and what will happen next. New Zealand scientists Shane…
Tonga provides information on deaths and damage for the first time
Vulkanausbruch: Tonga macht Angaben zu Toten und Schäden - Gallery Tage nach dem gewaltigen Ausbruch eines Untersee-Vulkans sickern Informationen zum Ausmass der Schäden aus dem Südsee-Archipel Tonga: Drei Tote und bis zu 15 Meter hohe Tsunamiwellen wurden bestätigt.Die Regierung des Inselreichs hat in einer ersten offiziellen Mitteilung seit der Eruption von Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai im Pazifik mindestens…
Limited communication is being restored in Tonga through satellite, high-frequency radio and motorboat after a violent underwater volcano severed a fiber-optic cable connecting the remote island to the world. The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai underwater eruption – equivalent to a 10 megaton blast, it's estimated – on Saturday damaged two cables that were the backbones of…
Why the Tonga Eruption Was So Violent, and What to Expect Next
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The Kingdom of Tonga doesn’t often attract global attention, but a violent eruption of an underwater volcano on January 15 has spread shock waves, quite literally, around half the world. High-resolution Himawari satellite imagery of the #HungaTongaHungaHaapai volcanic eruption in…
Tonga races to prevent a ‘tsunami of covid’ as rescue efforts begin after underwater volcano disaster
SYDNEY — The Pacific nation of Tonga, scrambling to recover from a devastating volcanic eruption on Saturday that sent tsunami waves halfway around the world, faces a new threat: a potential “tsunami” of coronavirus infections.Aid groups and defense officials from Australia and New Zealand are working on contactless ways to deliver water and other vital…
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Hunga Tonga Volkan Patlamasının Yarattığı Devasa Şok Dalgası, Tüm Dünya Atmosferini Etkiledi [Video]
Geçtiğimiz günlerde Hunga Tonga isimli ıssız volkanik adada yaşanan patlama sonrası çevre ülkelerde tsunami uyarısı verildi, iletişim kesildi, kilometrelerce mesafede her yeri kül kapladı. Ancak yalnızca uzaydan gözlemleyebildiğimiz bir görüntü, ortaya patlamanın bambaşka bir etkisini koydu. Geçtiğimiz günlerde Güney Pasifik'te bulunan bir ada ülkesi olan Tonga'nın volkanik adalarından birinde devasa bir patlama meydana geldi. Patlama…