New Delhi, (PTI) The 2022 Tonga eruption recorded the fastest underwater flows of volcanic material ever, according to new research published in the journal Science.
These flows extensively damaged the two seafloor cables connecting the South Pacific archipelago to the global telecommunications network, the research by GNS Science, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) and other institutes in New Zealand, Tonga, Australia, Germany, USA and the UK found.
Volcanic material was sent as high as 57 kilometres in the sky, when the submerged Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Volcano erupted on January 15, 2022, it said.
