Tonga Volcano Eruption 2024 Eruption. 15, 2022, unleashing the most intense lightning storm ever recorded and the. 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.
The low, forested tofua island in the central part of the tonga islands group is the emergent summit of a large stratovolcano that was seen in eruption by captain cook in 1774. The eruption had potential for far more death and destruction, however, and the next outburst from this or a similar volcano could turn out much worse.