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A powerful undersea volcanic eruption occurred in Tonga on Friday, January 14, 2022. Hunga Tonga-Hungahapai volcano’s latest eruption occurred just hours after the tsunami warning was lifted on Friday.
photo: Tonga Geological Service/EyePress News via AFP
GNS scientists have just led a team to the supervolcano that is set to erupt near Tonga in 2022 and back.
In January 2022, the Hunga submarine volcano erupted, the largest eruption on record since the Krakatoa eruption in 1883.
The tsunami struck Japan and the Americas and devastated Tonga’s main island of Tongatapu, damaging homes and infrastructure and killing three people.
New Zealand has several volcanoes similar in appearance to Hunga within its exclusive economic zone, GNS said.
The RV Tangaroa returned to Wellington on Wednesday after a month-long voyage collecting geological, geophysical and water column data from inside the crater. GNS scientist Cornel de Ronde led the voyage.
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