Tag: Tonga
Tonga blast wave orbited Earth multiple times
On January 15, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in the Tonga archipelago erupted, blanketing the neighboring islands in a thick layer of ash. At least three people died. The…
Tonga: the other country of volcanic crypto-mining and Bitcoin legal tender?
And two for Bitcoin? – If the salvador was the first country to adopt Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tenderthere is a good chance that it is not not the last.…
Volcanology: The Tonga Eruption That Will Make History
But the magma of January 2022 is different. Shane Cronin, a volcanologist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and his colleagues have analyzed ash collected by disaster workers…
Tonga to adopt bitcoin as legal tender and geothermal mining
© Reuters Investing.com – A former member of parliament in Tonga, has shared a timeline for the country’s plan to pass the . The latter is inspired by the approach…
Internet (in part) back in Tonga Islands
Benjamin Logerot February 23, 2022 at 9:34 a.m. 2 © Reuters We all remember the impressive eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano on January 15th. After 38 days of…
SpaceX’s method of reconnecting Tonga after a deadly eruption
On January 15, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted. The explosion and the fallout that followed killed three people and the Tonga archipelago was quickly covered in debris and ash…
Tonga islands in lockdown following detection of two Covid-19 cases
The team of the Australian ship “Adelaïde”, in Nuku’alofa, January 27, 2022. CPL ROBERT WHITMORE / AFP The Tonga Islands will enter confinement on Wednesday February 2 due to the…
Another natural disaster strikes the Tonga Islands
Europe 1 with AFP 12:33 p.m., January 27, 2022 According to the American Seismological Institute (USGS), a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred on Thursday off the Tonga Islands. This event follows…
Tonga volcanic eruption triggers tsunamis in Mediterranean Sea
The fact that the eruption made waves in all oceans was due to two different mechanisms. The explosive eruption also produced remarkable meteorological phenomena. The violent eruption phase of the…
After volcanic eruption – fear of Covid introduction makes relief operations in Tonga more difficult – News
Relief operations are picking up speed eleven days after the volcanic eruption off the South Pacific island of Tonga. Above all, drinking water treatment plants and material for the reconstruction…
New images of the devastated Tonga islands after the tsunami
The eruption and then the tsunami affected more than 80% of the approximately 100,000 inhabitants of Tonga. The images bear witness to the gravity of the situation. The people of…
Volcanic eruption in the Tonga Islands: a hundred times more powerful than Hiroshima
Laure Dautriche edited by Wassila Belhacine 2:41 p.m., January 25, 2022modified to 5:19 p.m., January 25, 2022 The January 15 eruption in the Tonga Islands, heard as far away as…