WELLINGTON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Tsunami-hit Tonga remained largely uncontactable on Sunday with telephone and internet links severed, leaving relatives in faraway New Zealand praying for their families ...

The January 15 eruption was so powerful it was heard as far away as Alaska and caused a tsunami that flooded coastlines around the Pacific - Copyright NASA/NOAA/AFP ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Elon Musk is helping reconnect Tonga to the internet after a volcanic eruption and tsunami cut off the South Pacific nation more than three weeks ago, according to officials ...

The eruption of an underwater volcano near Tonga on Saturday was likely the biggest recorded anywhere on the planet in more than 30 years, according to experts. Dramatic images from space captured the ...

"My entire house was shaking," said Sanya Ruggiero, a Consulting Communications Advisor based in Suva, the capital of Fiji, some 750 kms from Tonga. "My doors, windows were all rattling like hell. And ...

In this photo provided by the Australian Defence Force, an officer of Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade Crisis response team assesses damage to Atata island, in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, following the ...