Tonga eruption was 'record atmospheric explosion'
BBC News
The eruption of the Tonga volcano in January has been confirmed as the biggest explosion ever recorded in the atmosphere by modern instrumentation.
"It was far bigger than any 20th Century volcanic event, or indeed any atom bomb test conducted after WWII."
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