609170 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.samoanews.com/regional/tonga-govt-says-nearly-85-population-impacted-volcano-and-tsunamiNuku'alofa, TONGA — Tonga faces a long road to recovery, with most of the population affected by the violent eruption and tsunami that followed, and many areas still scrambling to restore basic necessities. Almost 85 percent of the country's population of about 105,000 people has been affected by....2022-01-23T20:11+0100samoanews-88ff2c6730baa2b328f5bf82e8471b1620220123201100https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/world/asia/2022-01-23-tonga-struggles-with-ash-psychological-trauma-after-eruption-and-tsunami/Families have stopped children playing outside as Tonga struggles to deal with ash and the psychological fallout of last week’s volcanic eruption and tsunami, aid workers and residents say. Communication with the outside world remained difficult on Sunday, with few internet services, and outlying islands still cut off from the phone service.2022-01-23T19:50+0100businessday-8f66d2ff7dba21cf7f013ec5cc61571320220123195000https://menafn.com/1103579895/Why-the-Tonga-volcano-cued-tsunami-warnings-for-the-North-American-Pacific-coast&source=24- The Conversation) On Jan. 15, a tsunami warning went out to residents of British Columbia and the west coast of the United States. The warning was issued after the eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano in Tonga in the Southwest Pacific. Tsunami literally means“harbour wave” in Japanese....2022-01-23T19:33+0100menafn-a46dbcccdb1269e7c09fc87561860fee20220123193300https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/jan/23/international-aid-reaches-tonga-with-clean-water-s/CANBERRA, Australia — Aid flights from Australia, Japan and New Zealand carrying food, water, medical supplies and telecommunications equipment landed in Tonga over the weekend, as the Pacific nation grapples with the aftermath of an underwater volcanic eruption and tsunami.2022-01-23T19:23+0100spokesman-15f4e866fdd1be0a486f8d8cf4f6074420220123192300