SAN MATEO (CBS SF/AP) -- Concerns heightened Wednesday within the San Francisco Bay Area Tongan community as reports slowly emerged from the isolated Pacific island nation of damage in the wake of a ...

Pita Taufatofua, known as the "Shirtless Tongan" carrying Tonga's flag at the Olympics, has established a GoFundMe page to help rebuild areas devastated by a tsunami following a volcanic eruption.

Since 2022, the underwater volcano of Home Reef has repeatedly emerged, adding hectares of land to the Tonga archipelago.

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Three of Tonga’s smaller islands suffered serious damage from tsunami waves, officials and the Red Cross said Wednesday, as a wider picture begins to emerge of the destruction ...

After a powerful undersea volcanic eruption near the island nation of Tonga on Jan. 15, early reports gave an indication of the expanse of its destruction. Tonga, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, ...

Residents on the smaller outlying islands of Tonga have started to evacuate after an underwater volcanic eruption on Saturday triggered giant tsunami waves. According to Red Cross officials, three of ...

Communications have been down throughout Tonga since the eruption on Saturday, but a ship made it to the outlying islands of Nomuka, Mango and Fonoifua on Wednesday, and reported back that few homes ...

Three of Tonga’s smaller islands suffered serious damage from tsunami waves, officials and the Red Cross said Wednesday, as a wider picture begins to emerge of the destruction caused by the eruption ...

Image of volcanic eruption in Tonga taken from the Himawari-8 satellite on Jan. 15, 2022 at 5:50 p.m. Tonga Local Time. This volcanic eruption produced a 3.9 foot (1.2 meter) tsunami which struck ...