Tonga Island Volcano Eruption 2024. Two years on from that day, his island is abandoned. It began rumbling in late december 2021 and culminated in a towering plume rising over two tiny, uninhabited islands in the south pacific called hunga tonga and hunga ha'apai.

Our findings show the volcano can explain last year’s extraordinarily large ozone hole, as well as the much wetter than expected summer of 2024. A little over two years ago, the most powerful underwater volcano ever recorded erupted off the coast of the tiny island nation of tonga in the pacific ocean, about 2,000.