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Tonga prioritising development goals - 'Government can't balance its budget'

RNZ 14 Mar 2024
Tonga sets out development priorities to tackle debt ... The country is still rebuilding and recovering from the destruction caused by the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption in 2022, which destroyed many resorts and left hundreds homeless.
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Sports news in brief for January 31

RNZ 31 Jan 2024
The Vanuatu Aquatics Federation said the athletes trained at the Holiday Inn Resort swimming pool ... Tonga - touch. Tonga will be competing again at the Touch Rugby World Cup this year after a 25 year absence.
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Despite after effects of eruption, Tongan people remain resilient

RNZ 15 Jan 2024
People in Tonga are resilient, and the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic eruption is not their first disaster, Tongan Ministry of Health chief executive Dr Siale 'Akau'ola says ... The Hunga Tonga-Hunga ...
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Tonga volcano explosion equalled most powerful ever US nuclear test

The Observer 14 Apr 2023
A huge underwater volcanic event in Tonga last year was of a magnitude comparable with the most powerful nuclear detonation by the US, researchers have revealed ... Tonga volcano.
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Last Year’s Tonga Volcanic Eruption Was The Largest Natural Explosion In A Century

IFL Science 14 Apr 2023
... prior to the eruption.” Ironically, the pandemic had a beneficial role by keeping tourists away; major resorts were much more exposed to the tsunami than Tonga’s towns, but had all been shuttered.
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What NZ scientists just revealed about Tonga's devastating tsunami, one year on

NewstalkZB 14 Jan 2023
The most crucial of these interviews were with Moana Paea of the Ha’atafu Beach resort, and with Rachael Moore, the Australian High Commissioner to Tonga – both of whom had been on the west coast of Tongatapu.
photo: AP / Japan Meteorology Agency via AP
In this satellite image taken by Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite, and released by the agency, shows an undersea volcano eruption at the Pacific nation of Tonga Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022.
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Volcanic eruption in Tonga will contribute to global cooling

Free West Media 05 Jan 2023
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American Samoa tsunami warning lifted after 6.7 quake

Reuters 05 Dec 2022
In January, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption triggered a tsunami that destroyed villages and resorts on Tonga in the same region and knocked out communications for the South Pacific nation of about 105,000 people.
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Tonga eruption is the biggest and worst volcano crisis in human history. Here's why

Interesting Engineering 21 Nov 2022
The explosion and tsunami from the Tonga volcano took human lives and damaged infrastructure (such as roads, hotels, and resorts) near the beaches of various countries in the Pacific region.
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Powerful 7.9 magnitude quake in Tonga

NewstalkZB 12 Nov 2022
In January, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano eruption triggered a tsunami that destroyed villages and resorts and knocked out communications for the South Pacific nation of about 105,000 people.
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Tsunami warnings issued after 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes Tonga region

Live Mint 11 Nov 2022
Please move inland immediately until further advised,' it said on its Facebook page.In January, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption triggered a tsunami that destroyed villages and resorts ...
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7.3 magnitude earthquake hits near coast of Tonga

ABC7 11 Nov 2022
LONDON -- A tsunami alert has now been lifted after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the tiny Pacific island nation of Tonga ... "A strong earthquake has occurred near Tonga and ...
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Tsunami waves observed in American Samoa after 7.3 magnitude earthquake jolts island nation Tonga

Hindustan Times 11 Nov 2022
In January, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption triggered a tsunami that destroyed villages and resorts and knocked out communications for the South Pacific nation of about 105,000 people.
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7.3 quake in Tonga

RNZ 11 Nov 2022
In January, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption triggered a tsunami that destroyed villages and resorts and knocked out communications for the South Pacific nation of about 105,000 people.
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Tsunami warning lifted after 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes Tonga region

The Jerusalem Post 11 Nov 2022
In January, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption triggered a tsunami that destroyed villages and resorts and knocked out communications for the South Pacific nation of about 105,000 people.
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