Eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai

When

15 Jan 2022

Kind

Volcanic eruption

Where

Tonga

Coordinates

20.55° S, 175.38° W

Vei

6

Deaths

6

Injuries

20

Damage musd

135.368

Houses destroyed

284

Volcano type

Submarine volcano

Volcanic event in the South Pacific Ocean

In December 2021, an eruption began on Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, a submarine volcano in the Tongan archipelago in the southern Pacific Ocean. The eruption reached a very large and powerful climax nearly four weeks later, on 15 January 2022.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Smithsonian GVP Volcanoes of the World: Holocene eruptionsGlobal Volcanism Program, Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian terms of use: personal, educational and non-commercial use, with creditGlobal Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution: Volcanoes of the World v5.3, https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.VOTW5-2025.5.3Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A large eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai, a submarine volcano in Tonga, triggers tsunami warnings in Australia, Canada, Chile, Fiji, Japan, New Zealand”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Der Vulkanausbruch des Hunga Tonga ist weltweit der stärkste seit 30 Jahren”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “начало извержения вулкана Хунга-Тонга-Хунга-Хаапай”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ثورة بركان في تونغا في المحيط الهادئ، أعقبه تسونامي امتد تأثيره لعدة دول مجاورة”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Persian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “فوران بزرگ آتشفشان زیردریایی هونگا تونگا، در کشور تونگا، موجب هشدار سونامی در استرالیا، کانادا، شیلی، فیجی، ژاپن، نیوزیلند، ساموآ و ایالات متحده شد”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “南太平洋島國東加附近海域發生海底火山噴發，該國對外通訊幾乎斷絕，產生的海嘯對太平洋沿岸國家造成衝擊。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “トンガのフンガ・トンガで大規模な噴火。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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