An underwater volcano exploded near Tonga in the South Pacific to stunning effect this week. The pictures of gas and steam erupting out of the surface of the water captivated the world.
Here at Wired Science, we love volcanoes — so we decided to use the Tongan eruption to round up some of our favorite volcano eruption pics and present them as big. Above, you can see Mt. Cleveland in Alaska erupting on May 23, 2006 as photographed by NASA's Earth Observatory .
Next up is the glorious explosion, below, of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines back in 1991. Credit: USGS
Another great eruption which happened at South Pacific due to stunning effect.
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