Tonga Volcanic Eruption Was So Big It Reached Space With 450 MPH Winds

2022 kicked off with a literal bang. On January 15, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai underwater volcano in the South Pacific exploded, filling the skies around it with ash, shock waves and sonic booms, the waters with tsunamis, and the Internet with some of the most spectacular images ever captured on film. The event was so massive in scale that it took scientists months to properly assess it. And now that the numbers are in, we ca... (continue reading...)