{"id":40693,"date":"2022-01-16T20:50:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T11:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/16\/pacific-tsunami-threat-recedes-as-volcano-ash-cloud-covers-tonga"},"modified":"2022-01-17T11:53:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T02:53:27","slug":"pacific-tsunami-threat-recedes-as-volcano-ash-cloud-covers-tonga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40693","title":{"rendered":"Tonga volcano eruption: New Zealand and Australia send planes to assess tsunami damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blanket of ash hinders communications from towns believed to have been inundated by waves as first surveillance flights departs<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand and Australia have sent planes to assess the damage from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/16\/tonga-volcano-eruption-and-tsunami-leaves-trail-of-flood-damage\">huge undersea volcanic eruption<\/a> and tsunami that hit the Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The eruption sent a thick blanket of ash into the sky, contaminating water supplies, cutting off communications and initially preventing surveillance flights assessing the extent of damage.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/16\/pacific-tsunami-threat-recedes-as-volcano-ash-cloud-covers-tonga\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blanket of ash hinders communications from towns believed to have been inundated by waves as first surveillance flights departsNew Zealand and Australia have sent planes to assess the damage from a huge undersea volcanic eruption and tsunami that hit t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2795,"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":[41,43,268,56,280,2489,1189,47,899,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-tonga","category-tonga-volcano","category-tsunamis","category-us-news","category-volcanoes","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40693","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\/2795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40693"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40730,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40693\/revisions\/40730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}