126470 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://aktualne.centrum.cz/czechnews/clanek.phtml?id=612976And it was probably concrete that made the young and talented architect well-known in Japan. This "European" construction material was earthquake-resistant, certainly more resistant than the traditional Japanese construction materials, wood and paper. But without his talent and skills Letzel would have never made it.2008-08-06T19:51+0200aktualne-5e723960abbf59865f72580705f5dacf20080806195100http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080730b2.htmlFUKUSHIMA (Kyodo) The only death so far from the magnitude-6.8 earthquake that jolted northeastern Japan last week was confirmed Tuesday when the city of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, announced that a 64-year-old woman died the day of the quake. The woman fell from her bed in a hospital when the....2008-07-29T22:59+0200japantimes-5a1bfd18556242d6d065ea677ca161f820080729225900http://article.wn.com/view/2008/07/29/How_Stuff_Works_How_seismographs_work/?section=Science&template=worldnews%2Findex.txtA strong earthquake rattled coastal areas in Iwate Prefecture and other parts of Japan's northern Tohoku region early Thursday. Almost six weeks earlier, on June 14, a more destructive inland quake shook Iwate early Thursday, shattering windows , just a month after a deadly tremor in the same area, officials said.2008-07-29T19:41+0200antiguanews-cc367a94c02857203a59d10835e57c7820080729194100http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-07-29-Japan-Quake_N.htm?csp=34A Japanese woman Tuesday became the first victim of a powerful earthquake that hit northern Japan last week when she died of ...2008-07-29T16:50+0200usaToday-813c178f297d0f54b0b3f5fabae3cf2820080729165000