1665100 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.albawaba.com/news/explosive-volcano-eruption-seen-space-1462622The eruption of the underwater Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai volcano sparked tsunami alerts across the South Pacific (Twitter) Following a massive undersea volcanic eruption in the island country of Tonga, Tsunami was observed in the southern Japanese island of Amami-Oshima and many other places along the country's Pacific coast on Sunday.2022-01-16T10:51+0100albawaba-en-58d4d39d3be0a80e65ce77e502b9b52320220116105100https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-16/tsunami-threat-recedes-from-huge-pacific-volcanic-eruption/100760130Pita Taufatofua, the Tongan Olympian who rose to fame for his entrances during the 2016 Rio Opening Ceremony, says he has not heard from his father after a tsunami hit the island nation following the eruption of an underwater volcano. The tsunami threat around the Pacific has begun to recede while the extent of damage to Tonga remains unclear.2022-01-16T10:51+0100abc-au-6a14ae750ed41ae1cef1e79507c5ff2520220116105100https://www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/Significant-tsunami-damage-feared-in-Tonga-communications-still-cut--37560814/WELLINGTON (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 on the Pacific islands as casualty reports had yet to come through. An underwater volcano off Tonga erupted on Saturday, triggering warnings of 1.2022-01-16T10:50+01004-traders-eac31f226794b1603638b67ae2928b7a20220116105000https://www.archyde.com/tsunami-in-tonga-all-communications-remain-down-after-the-violent-eruption-of-the-submarine-volcano-hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai-world/, in the South Pacific, continues this Sunday with the communications network down since it was hit by a tsunami on Saturday afternoon, which prevents knowing the consequences of the disaster in the island state. “Right now we are mainly receiving information (from Tonga ) from our high....2022-01-16T10:49+0100archyde-5434c57c3718f9c1314b2220b1734b7920220116104900