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Tonga volcanic eruption
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- Scientists have proposed an alternative explanation for why the record-shattering Tonga volcanic eruption of 2022 was so violent.
- The explosion may have been triggered by gas, rather than by a reaction between magma and water as previously suggested.
- Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, an underwater volcano in the South Pacific Ocean, erupted on Jan. 15, 2022.
- It unleashed the most intense lightning storm ever recorded and the first known mega-tsunami since antiquity.
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