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Study links Tonga's 2022 Hunga tsunami to rapid caldera collapse

Researchers studying the January 2022 Hunga volcano eruption in Tonga found that a roughly four-kilometer-wide caldera sank by about a kilometer during the event, based on before-and-after seafloor mapping. The team concludes this swift collapse likely intensified the powerful tsunami that followed the eruption.