A New Zealand-led team has completed the fullest investigation to date into January’s eruption of the underwater Tongan volcano, with the conclusion that Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha’apai (HT-HH) emitted the biggest atmospheric explosion recorded on Earth in more than 100 years.
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Due to the power of the explosion, researchers expected to find dramatic changes to the volcano but instead found it largely intact.
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NIWA and The Nippon Foundation are undertaking a mission to discover the undersea impacts of the recent Tongan volcanic eruption.
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The eruption of the Hunga volcano in Tonga in the South Pacific in January was strong enough to jiggle the atmosphere from the surface to the ionosphere.
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