Tonga volcano eruption 500 times more powerful than Hiroshima bombing

NASA scientists estimate that last week’s underwater volcano eruption in Tonga was equal to about 10 megatons of TNT explosive – more than 500 times as powerful as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II. The underwater eruption obliterated the island of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai – a small island […]

Source: The Brussels Times