Tag: Tonga
Scotland dismisses Tonga and returns to the race for qualification
Scottish fullback Blair Kinghorn scored a try during the XV du Chardon’s victory against Tonga on Sunday September 24 in Nice. VALERY HACHE / AFP We had almost forgotten them.…
with its victory against Tonga, Ireland consolidates its status as favorite of the competition
Irish players after their match against the Tonga team, at the Beaujoire stadium, in Nantes, September 16, 2023. LOIC VENANCE / AFP Irish fury shook the Nantes tramways. Transported by…
Tonga blast close to theoretical limit
As more details emerge about the January 15, 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai in the Pacific Ocean, it is becoming clearer what catastrophe the world may have been avoiding.…
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…