In order to move the "exceptional" and massive rock, the tsunami was likely around 164-feet tall - the height of the Arc de Triomphe.

Since 2022, the underwater volcano of Home Reef has repeatedly emerged, adding hectares of land to the Tonga archipelago.

A view of Nukualofa, Tonga’s central hub of political and economic activity. In 2022, the French navy patrol vessel La Glorieuse brought aid to the island in the aftermath of the eruption.

Tonga’s coastline reveals hidden boulder, Maka Lahi, the world’s largest cliff-top boulder, carried inland by a massive tsunami 7,000 years ago, study said.

The simulation also helps explain why Tonga’s capital and largest city, Nuku’alofa, was able to escape the brunt of the tsunami. It sits just 40 miles south of the eruption, ...

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent the equivalent of more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools' worth of water into the stratosphere, researchers say.

A 1200-tonne boulder in Tonga was swept inland when a 50-metre-high wave slammed into a 30-metre-tall cliff. “This is not just a boulder; it’s the biggest wave-lifted boulder ever found on a ...

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Tonga early Monday morning, prompting a tsunami warning that has since been lifted.. The U.S. Geological Survey said that the earthquake hit ...