This Volcano Eruption Was Equivalent To HUNDREDS Of Atomic Bombs

This photo is a still capture of a video released by NASA when a small, uninhabited South Pacific island known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai – originally two islands that became one landmass in January 2015 after an eruption formed new land between them – was obliterated by a massive volcanic eruption. Little is understood about volcanoes that erupt in shallow water and volcanologists have recently been analyzing the extraordinary power of the blast.