26860 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://theworld.org/stories/2022-01-18/tonga-volcanic-eruption-1-1000-year-event-volcanologist-saysThree deaths have been confirmed in the Pacific nation of Tonga after a massive underwater volcano in the South Pacific erupted on Saturday. The eruption of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano, located just 40 miles away from Tonga’s main island, Tongatapu, sent a mushroom cloud of volcanic ash....2022-01-18T21:52+0100pri-519b9fe6e08fe5d30c490ea8a35e816c20220118215200https://theworld.org/stories/2022-01-18/tonga-volcanic-eruption-1-1000-year-event-volcanologist-saysThree deaths have been confirmed in the Pacific nation of Tonga after a massive underwater volcano in the South Pacific erupted on Saturday. The eruption of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano, located just 40 miles away from Tonga’s main island, Tongatapu, sent a mushroom cloud of volcanic ash....2022-01-18T21:32+0100newsnow-co-uk-fe1bf41925b2cd071fdbf22a64947bea20220118213200https://www.archyde.com/is-the-tide-level-change-unprecedented-true-delays-in-tsunami-warnings-and-disaster-prevention-information-weathernews/The eruption occurred in Tonga after 13:00 JST on Saturday, 15th. Since a huge umbrella-shaped eruption could be immediately confirmed on the meteorological satellite image, it was judged that the eruption was a very large scale, so information for aircraft was promptly transmitted. About an hour later, a tide level change of 0.2022-01-18T20:46+0100archyde-6ac3306ba2cd0a10424766991b64e42b20220118204600https://reliefweb.int/report/tonga/asia-and-pacific-weekly-regional-humanitarian-snapshot-11-17-january-2022TONGA. An eruption of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha-apai underwater volcano on 15 January caused a tsunami and ash fall in Tonga, with a 5km wide and 20km high plume of ash, steam and gas. The eruption was one of the biggest in Tonga in the past 30 years. Following the eruption, a tsunami wave of 1.2022-01-18T14:24+0100reliefWeb-0f2a1485395843e06bb465d4291fde5f20220118142400