Australia and New Zealand on Monday sent flights to Tonga to survey the damage after the eruption of an undersea volcano left the tiny Pacific kingdom covered in ash and caused a tsunami.

In 1773, British explorer Captain James Cook arrived in Tonga, referring to the nation as the Friendly Islands. Eventually, missionaries came, the country converted to Christianity, and Tonga ...

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A tsunami has hit Tonga’s largest island, Tongatapu, and reportedly sent waves flooding into the capital of Nuku’alofa.; Ash was falling from the sky in Nuku’alofa on Saturday evening and ...

Tsunami waves rolled ashore Saturday along the West Coast of the United States after the powerful eruption of an undersea volcano near the Tonga islands in the Pacific Ocean, closing beaches ...

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Boats bashed into a quiet harbor in Southern California, a remote island was battered in Japan by four-foot waves and two women were swept to their deaths on a beach in Peru — some 6,000 miles ...

Tonga, the Pacific nation that was struck by a powerful tsunami last weekend, consists of about 170 islands, some tiny, stretching out across 270,000 square miles, an area roughly the size of ...

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Significant damage was reported along the western coast of Tonga's main island on Tuesday and the death of a British woman was confirmed following the weekend's massive volcanic eruption and tsunami.

Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai, as the newly formed island was named, is now a shattered version of its former self, having been obliterated in the January 15 eruption.

The highest tsunami observed in Japan following the Tonga eruption was 120 centimeters (3.9 feet) in Amami Oshima Island in Kagoshima prefecture, followed by a 110-centimeter (3.6 feet) tsunami at ...