{"id":40796,"date":"2022-01-19T02:36:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/18\/tonga-volcanic-eruption-tsunami-unprecedented-disaster"},"modified":"2022-01-19T02:36:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:36:32","slug":"tonga-says-volcanic-eruption-and-tsunami-an-unprecedented-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40796","title":{"rendered":"Tonga says volcanic eruption and tsunami an \u2018unprecedented disaster\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government issues first official update since huge blast on Saturday, saying death toll could rise<\/p>\n<p>Tonga is facing an \u201cunprecedented disaster\u201d from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/16\/tonga-volcano-eruption-and-tsunami-leaves-trail-of-flood-damage\">massive volcanic eruption<\/a> that covered the nation in ash and 15-metre tsunami waves that destroyed almost all the homes on two small islands, the government has said.<\/p>\n<p>Hampered by a communications breakdown caused by the severing of a major undersea cable, authorities had not released an official update since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/16\/tonga-volcano-eruption-and-tsunami-leaves-trail-of-flood-damage\">the blast on Saturday<\/a>, when the Pacific island nation was shaken by what may have been the largest volcanic event in three decades.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/18\/tonga-volcanic-eruption-tsunami-unprecedented-disaster\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government issues first official update since huge blast on Saturday, saying death toll could riseTonga is facing an \u201cunprecedented disaster\u201d from a massive volcanic eruption that covered the nation in ash and 15-metre tsunami waves that destroyed almo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1486,"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":[41,280,1189,899,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-tonga","category-tsunamis","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\/40796","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\/1486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40797,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40796\/revisions\/40797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}