644170 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://digitpatrox.com/how-will-tongas-broken-internet-cable-be-mended/It’s estimated that there are greater than 430 cables around the globe, spanning distances of 1.3 million km (800,000 miles) An undersea fibre-optic cable which connects Tonga to the remainder of the world was severed in the course of the eruption of a volcano.2022-01-24T08:06+0100digitpatrox-743c5d8e5ede89bf570736b8d515ca6f20220124080600https://www.chinadailyhk.com/article/257209#China-ships-relief-supplies-to-tsunami-hit-TongaPublished:14:35, January 24, 2022 Updated:14:42, January 24, 2022 By Xinhua. A handout photo taken on Jan 18, 2022 and released on Jan 21 by New Zealand Defence Public Affairs shows an aerial view of Fonoifua Island following the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai undersea volcano on a nearby island on Jan 15.2022-01-24T08:06+0100chinadailyhk-238d7bf3eee6c3bea2b4a02e7c476ce620220124080600https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/01/619155db307e-japans-msdf-vessel-departs-carrying-aid-to-disaster-stricken-tonga.htmlA transport vessel of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force departed Monday for Tonga as part of Japan's continuing relief efforts to the Pacific islands nation, which was hit by an undersea volcanic eruption and a tsunami earlier in the month. Osumi departed the Kure base in western Japan with 60,000....2022-01-24T08:03+0100kyodonews-91321fe8867606b8a1b2cd8100580fa620220124080300https://news.yahoo.com/tonga-volcano-84-population-affected-061122487.htmlThe Tongan government has said that as many as 84% of its 105,000 population had been affected by ash fall and a tsunami triggered by an underwater volcanic eruption. Tsunami waves triggered by the volcano swept Tonga last week, destroying villages, buildings and the coast.2022-01-24T07:43+0100news-yahoo-599224e4a6ce49f40d18bdf65fb4486a20220124074300