The ferocious 2021 explosion blew out 2.3 cubic miles of rock, unleashing a 35-mile-high plume and a global tsunami that sent scientists racing to understand the blast. Now they're finally putting together the pieces.
A team of scientists with the help of an uncrewed boat remotely controlled from the UK – join forces to produce one of the clearest pictures to date of what took place underneath the water as an enormous volcano erupted near the Tongan mainland.
It caused 10 cubic kilometres - the equivalent of 2.6 million Olympic-sized swimming pools - of seafloor to be displaced and destroyed the ecosystems around the volcano.
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The deadly volcanic eruption that hit the Tonga Islands in early 2022 was the strongest ever recorded with modern equipment, revealed on Monday November 21, a team of…