28130 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.globalissues.org/news/2022/02/02/29968The massive volcanic eruption and tsunami in Tonga followed by another earthquake and aftershocks just days afterwards, has highlighted once again the vulnerability of Small Island Developing States (SIDS), a meeting this week convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has heard.2022-02-03T01:24+0100globalissues-933dd5596846849378a02bb3419ae03720220203012400https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/small-island-developing-states---fao-convenes-a-global-dialogue-to-update-on-latest-initiatives/frRome – Une rencontre internationale consacrée aux petits États insulaires en développement (PEID) et convoquée par l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO) a été l’occasion de souligner que la puissante éruption volcanique et le tsunami advenus aux Tonga le mois....2022-02-02T17:50+0100fao-fr-b34a98cc57ca5a953b17cc5df33da87620220202175000https://crisis24.garda.com/alerts/2022/02/tonga-magnitude-55-offshore-earthquake-occurs-east-of-tongatapu-feb-2Event. A magnitude-5.5 offshore earthquake occurred in the South Pacific east of the Tongatapu island group, Tonga, at around 23:26 Feb. 2. The epicenter was about 74 km (46 miles) east-northeast of Ohonua. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 11 km (7 miles), and light-to-moderate shaking was....2022-02-02T12:35+0100garda-com-723786c3e6100292a0caa56326cc119b20220202123500https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/171668/Moderate-49-quake-hits-near-Nukalofa-Nuku-alofa-Tongatapu-Tonga.htmlAn earthquake of magnitude 4.9 occurred 38 minutes ago 45 km northwest of Nukalofa, Tonga, the United States Geological Survey reported. The quake hit at a shallow depth of 10 km beneath the epicenter near Nukalofa, Nuku'alofa, Tongatapu, Tonga, in the morning on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022, at 8:57 am local time.2022-02-01T22:04+0100volcanodiscovery-c03bfc83642bbcf38ece7cae5eaa9ed020220201220400