News Forum - Volcano eruption in Tonga confirmed the largest ever recorded

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Just as Indonesia copes with the devastation of the 5.6 magnitude earthquake that struck yesterday, scientists in New Zealand announced their findings about another natural calamity in January. The group of scientists confirmed that a volcano eruption in Tonga in January was the largest ever recorded using modern equipment. The massive eruption took place deep in the ocean when the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano exploded with the force of hundreds of atomic bombs. The scale of the explosion is hard to comprehend. The volcano was the first ever recorded to eject material out of the Earth’s stratosphere and into the […]

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