7540 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://pasifika.news/2022/08/wave-created-by-tonga-volcanic-eruption-was-nine-times-taller-than-any-other-tsunami/“We are under-prepared for volcanic tsunamis,” says Research author after finding the wave created by Tonga volcanic eruption was among very few tsunamis powerful enough to travel around the globe. The initial tsunami wave created by the eruption of the underwater Hunga Tonga Ha’apai volcano in....2022-08-25T10:07+0200pasifika-3d784f085426a32e564143b3a4c36b6720220825100700https://indiaeducationdiary.in/university-of-sheffield-tonga-volcano-eruption-released-more-energy-than-the-most-powerful-nuclear-bomb/The eruption of the underwater volcano in Tonga that triggered a tsunami earlier this year (January 2022), released more energy than the Tsar Bomba – the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated – according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Sheffield harvested data from weather....2022-08-25T10:04+0200indiaeducationdiary-d80ac401b7a093c88192b168fbb943b520220825100400https://www.corriere.it/tecnologia/22_agosto_25/estinzione-dinosauri-due-asteroidi-secondo-cratere-scoperto-45806273-7c9f-43f5-9d50-5c8af80d9xlk.shtmlSono almeno due gli asteroidi che 66 milioni di anni fa colpirono la Terra, segnando per sempre la fine dell’era dei dinosauri , il Cretaceo . Almeno due perché, dopo il celebre cratere lasciato dall’asteroide di Chicxulub , ora sul fondo dell’ Oceano Atlantico gli scienziati avrebbero....2022-08-25T08:27+0200corriere-e36187d9e146829a0ab41fd42d2774ca20220825082700https://pasifika.news/2022/08/american-samoa-underwater-volcano-unlike-tongas-retired-geologist/American Samoa underwater volcano is not like Tonga’s but could still pose danger if its crater collapses and triggers a tsunami, says retired geologist. An underwater volcano in the Manu’a group of islands in American Samoa is not like the one in Tonga but could create a tsunami if its crater collapsed, says a retired geologist.2022-08-25T06:42+0200pasifika-cfe6b7410a9cfdb9c7fd838aaedc671f20220825064200