“We’ve never seen anything like it,” said atmospheric scientist Luis Millán, who works at NASA. The vapor sent skyward by the eruption will likely stay in the stratosphere for years.
"Tonga eruption"
Tonga enters lockdown after first community transmitted COVID-19 cases detected
Two workers tested positive Tuesday, local media reported, after the Ministry of Health increased testing at the wharf they worked at amid a flow of international aid.
NASA scientists estimate Tonga blast at 10 megatons
Even three days after the blast, Tonga remains largely cut off from the world. Undersea communications cables appear to have been cut, and the airport is covered in ash, preventing relief flights from arriving at the capital city of Nuku’alofa.
The eruption near Tonga was so powerful you could hear it in Alaska
Hours before tsunami waves arrived, sounds from the eruption reached Alaskans from Juneau to the Aleutians.
For Tongans in Alaska, a fretful wait for news after eruption and tsunami
There has been very little contact with Tonga since Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai erupted.