665170 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://phys.org/news/2022-01-underwater-volcanoes-ocean-imminent-eruption.htmlThe scale of a recent volcano eruption took the people of Tonga by surprise. Scientists monitoring the submarine volcano, Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, were likewise caught off-guard, failing to foresee an explosion which would unleash The scale of the eruption was hailed as a " once in a millenium " event by one scientist.2022-01-24T16:45+0100phys-816e1af1d0da1fa266e424feca30dfdd20220124164500https://morningexpress.in/peru-declares-environmental-emergency-for-90-days/The beaches north of Lima have been desperately deserted for 15 days, whereas from January to March, five million tourists usually flock there. For the past ten days, we have only seen people in protective suits trying to clean up the consequences of a gigantic oil spill.2022-01-24T16:32+0100morningexpress-7a2c6a641dd25a2e7f811ef466acea0020220124163200https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/news-story/understanding-unique-tsunami-event-caused-tonga-volcano-eruptionOn January 15, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted off the coast of Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean, generating a tsunami and triggering tsunami alerts around the world. Most tsunamis are commonly caused by earthquakes and only about 5% of tsunamis are generated from volcanic....2022-01-24T16:29+0100research-noaa-fe59289d498f0ac609b5b98713b8a5b520220124162900https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202201/1246801.shtmlPhoto: WeChat account of the Chinese Embassy in Fiji China has decided to send three more batches of materials, including drinking water, food and cash, as emergency aid to Tonga, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Monday. The three batches of supplies include emergency aid worth 20 million yuan ($3.2022-01-24T15:57+0100globaltimes-ea06e91b6ede70b912e346a0a614f0ab20220124155700