18860 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.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10415991/How-Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Haapai-volcanic-eruption-highlights-risk-Australia-faces.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490Some of the damage in the Tonga archipelago is 'catastrophic', including on Atata and Mango islands and now a shortage of clean water threatens the health of thousands. Although Hunga Tonga was one of the biggest eruptions of recent times and looked frightening in satellite images, it was four on Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI).2022-01-19T01:23+0100dailymail-b48f5fc549480ec9aafd04d26873c67d20220119012300https://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://en.antaranews.com/news/210381/sunda-strait-megathrust-segment-may-trigger-87-m-quake-brinIllustration—The Banten earthquake happened in a seismic gap zone, or a zone that previously had not shown any seismic activity. (ANTARA/Martha Herlinawati Simanjuntak/KT) Jakarta (ANTARA) - The recent Banten earthquake has signaled the potential of a Sunda Strait megathrust earthquake that could reach 8.2022-01-18T15:34+0100antaranews-en-6d6d770dc7606c14bf701512ef42adff20220118153400https://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