Tonga Underwater Volcano Eruption 2024. Waves hit australia, new zealand and japan as well as the west. The low, forested tofua island in the central part of the tonga islands group is the emergent summit of a large stratovolcano that was seen in eruption by captain cook in 1774.
On january 15, an underwater volcano in the island nation of tonga erupted with the explosive force of a nuclear bomb, and it may not be done just yet. 15, 2022, unleashing the most intense lightning storm ever recorded and the first known.