Submarine cable incident record
Tonga regional cable advisory cable event — 2024-06-29
Tonga's only inter-island domestic submarine cable suffered a total failure on June 29, 2024, likely due to earthquake-induced landslides, causing severe communications blackout in Vava'u and Ha'apai.
Assumed resolved
- Affected cable or system
- Regional advisory; no cable was deterministically attributed
- Affected countries
- Tonga
- Region
- Oceania and the Pacific
- Evidence mode
- Reported evidence
- Source extraction confidence
- 95%
- Resolution
- Assumed resolved after six months without newer evidence
Lifecycle
- Occurred:
- Resolution date:
Original supporting evidence
Confidence describes automated extraction of the cited source, not a probability that every named cable was physically cut. Historical records may be marked assumed resolved when no newer evidence was available. Confirm operational decisions with the cable owner or carrier.