An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 on the Richter Scale hit Tonga Islands on Friday, UAE's National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) said. NCM said that the earthquake was recorded at 2.27pm UAE Time.

The towering undersea volcano known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai had awakened, and on a balmy afternoon in January 2022 it began blasting its insides into the sky above this Pacific island chain ...

Tonga is a land of endless beauty that marches to the beat of its own dream and is a unique island country offering a host of delights for those brave enough to make the long journey to get there.

Since 2022, the underwater volcano of Home Reef has repeatedly emerged, adding hectares of land to the Tonga archipelago. Successive eruptions have allowed the island to reach an area of 12.2 ...

There's a whiff of sulphur. Massive eruptions of rock and ash from a volcano in Tonga created this new land in January. The baby island bubbled from the ocean about 65 kilometres northwest of the ...