562180 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.theage.com.au/national/victoria/from-bushfires-to-tsunamis-janet-s-quilts-comfort-those-in-need-20220124-p59qqn.htmlJanet MacFadyen’s quilts have been raffled by the Armenian embassy in Paris to pay for orphanages, and were flown to Indonesia after the 2004 tsunami. At the turn of the century, she would regularly drive a trailer full of them from her home in Shepparton to Puckapunyal, where dozens of citizens from war-torn Kosovo had taken refuge.2022-01-26T02:19+0100theage-2675756f09a57140bd1cf94fcd11eaa320220126021900https://www.science.org/content/article/tonga-shock-wave-created-tsunamis-two-different-oceansWhen Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai, a mostly submerged volcanic cauldron in the South Pacific Ocean, exploded on 15 January, it unleashed a blast perhaps as powerful as the world’s biggest nuclear bomb, and drove tsunami waves that crashed into Pacific shorelines.2022-01-26T00:59+0100newsnow-co-uk-cda30d08c1ee65b23cfaeb41ac8f37d120220126005900https://reliefweb.int/report/tonga/tonga-aid-ramped-after-eruption-and-tsunamiKuala Lumpur/Suva, 26 January 2022 Local relief teams are urgently providing supplies to communities across Tonga, hit hard by a volcanic eruption and tsunami that destroyed hundreds of homes and left thousands without safe drinking water. Relief items are being unloaded after the airport was cleared of ash, making it safe for planes to land.2022-01-26T00:56+0100reliefWeb-ec9c69e95406c864dbd887c223cae80720220126005600https://pasifika.news/2022/01/long-term-planning-crucial-to-tongas-recovery/As recovery efforts began in Tonga, after the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano eruption and the tsunami that followed, the first priority will be to provide immediate relief to communities to save lives and respond to urgent needs. While these activities are vital, it is also important for....2022-01-26T00:47+0100pasifika-83aba4f224cf36d506ac4c099b8adf7820220126004700