The Pacific nation of Tonga is made up of 170 islands, but it just welcomed its newest addition – thanks to an underwater volcano. Near the center of the nation's island formation lies the Home Reef ...
A new island has appeared out of the ocean and is expanding, experts in the South Pacific along with NASA have revealed. An underwater volcano near Tonga that “awoke” on Sept. 10, known as Home Reef, ...
A volcano that erupted in the southwest Pacific Ocean has started to create a new island. On Sept. 10, a volcano erupted on Home Reef, an undersea mountain that is not usually visible. But as the ...
A dramatic transformation is taking place in the South Pacific, where a newly formed volcanic island is emerging from the ...
A new “baby” island has been spotted in the middle of the ocean hours after an underwater volcano erupted. The Home Reef volcano – found in the Central Tonga Islands – erupted this month and within ...
The eruption of an underwater volcano just gifted the Earth a new island in the southwest Pacific Ocean. On Sept. 10, a submarine volcano named Home Reef — located about 150 miles north of Tonga — ...
There's a new lava lobe on Tonga's Home Reef Volcano, covering close to half the island, and which has grown nearly 2000 times the size that it was when the thermal anomaly was first detected. Thermal ...