27060 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.eastbaytimes.com/2022/01/19/santa-cruz-harbor-sees-more-than-6-million-in-tsunami-damage/SANTA CRUZ – The Santa Cruz Port Commission on Tuesday declared an emergency for the Santa Cruz Harbor following Saturday’s tsunami. Tsunami from underground volcano near Tonga hits the Small Craft Harbor in Santa Cruz on Saturday. The harbor estimates damages from Saturday’s tidal event to be as high as $6.2022-01-19T14:09+0100eastbaytimes-3a6c7b4a6a0679a6a9501c135c67c45220220119140900https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/19/santa-cruz-harbor-sees-more-than-6-million-in-tsunami-damage/SANTA CRUZ – The Santa Cruz Port Commission on Tuesday declared an emergency for the Santa Cruz Harbor following Saturday’s tsunami. Tsunami from underground volcano near Tonga hits the Small Craft Harbor in Santa Cruz on Saturday. The harbor estimates damages from Saturday’s tidal event to be as high as $6.2022-01-19T13:38+0100mercurynews-3a6c7b4a6a0679a6a9501c135c67c45220220119133800http://spaceref.com/onorbit/orbital-view-of-the-hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai-volcanos-initial-eruption.htmlOn January 13, 2022, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board NASA's Aqua satellite acquired a true-color image of the start of something big--a massive volcanic eruption on from an undersea volcano in Tonga that triggered tsunami waves on January 15which impacted coastal areas from New Zealand to Alaska.2022-01-19T07:18+0100spaceref-f9a4c619f30dd97f4fe0f5d8dbb8500b20220119071800https://pasifika.news/2022/01/the-most-explosive-eruption-in-30-years-hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai-rewrites-tsunami-rules/The Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai volcano eruption is understood to be the most explosive eruption in 30 years that created a larger tsunami than experts thought. The eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai volcano in Tonga sent literal shock waves around the world.2022-01-19T04:39+0100pasifika-f03f6182dfcf7d9f96c67e017acd854320220119043900