26450 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://reliefweb.int/report/tonga/asia-and-pacific-weekly-regional-humanitarian-snapshot-18-24-january-2022TONGA. The Government of Tonga is leading relief and clearing operations since the eruption of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano on 15 January. The ash and the tsunami affected an estimated 84 per cent of the country’s entire population or about 84,800 people.2022-01-26T04:57+0100reliefWeb-6c634a14660ee3b6bc0d6d7ccd5102c920220126045700https://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://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-83aba4f224cf36d506ac4c099b8adf7820220126004700https://thetimeshub.in/nasa-volcano-explosion-near-tonga-was-hundreds-of-times-more-powerful-than-the-atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshimaVolcanic eruption near Tonga/NASA. The Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Haapai volcano eruption on January 15 was hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima during World War II. This was stated by NASA experts on their website.2022-01-25T18:34+0100thetimeshub-3cf6f28d3881d6fd303251ecd5023b4220220125183400