{"id":40644,"date":"2022-01-15T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/15\/tonga-tsunami-warning-as-volcano-erupts-at-sea"},"modified":"2022-01-15T21:11:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T12:11:22","slug":"tsunami-hits-tonga-after-underwater-volcanic-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40644","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami hits Tonga after underwater volcanic eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Streets and buildings flooded in Pacific nation\u2019s main island following latest eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2019apai<\/p>\n<p>People have been forced to flee their homes, and streets and buildings have flooded, as tsunami waves crashed into Tonga\u2019s main island of Tongatapu, following a huge underwater volcano explosion.<\/p>\n<p>The eruption at 0410 GMT on Friday of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2019apai underwater volcano, located about 65km (40 miles) north of Tonga\u2019s capital, Nuku\u2019alofa, caused a 1.2-metre tsunami, Australia\u2019s Bureau of Meteorology said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/15\/tonga-tsunami-warning-as-volcano-erupts-at-sea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Streets and buildings flooded in Pacific nation\u2019s main island following latest eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2019apaiPeople have been forced to flee their homes, and streets and buildings have flooded, as tsunami waves crashed into Tonga\u2019s main island o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,280,1189,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-tonga","category-tsunamis","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40669,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40644\/revisions\/40669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}