17520 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://phys.org/news/2014-10-america-tsunami-refuge.htmlWashington's coast is so close to the seismically active Cascadia Subduction Zone that if a megathrust earthquake were to occur, a tsunami would hit the Washington shoreline in just 25 minutes.Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:24:00 +0200phys-2f2cf05b1f6ad94fe2a46ecbb8059e0120141021182400http://phys.org/news/2014-10-global-surge-great-earthquakes-.htmlThe last ten years have been a remarkable time for great earthquakes. Since December 2004 there have been no less than 18 quakes of Mw8.0 or greater – a rate of more than twice that seen from 1900 to mid-2004. Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost and massive damage has resulted from these great earthquakes.Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:54:00 +0200phys-daf54f6f22862482dc41dd9352e8a34a20141021175400http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/10/21/evidence-of-a-monster-tsunami-has-been-found-in-hawaii-and-it-could-happen-again/The deadly 1946 tsunami pales in comparison to the 30-foot tsunami that roared ashore on the island of Kaua’i about 500 years ago, researchers have confirmed.Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:24:00 +0200WashingtonPost-f410dc9a5c4a35566c221f57517d3ba020141021172400http://www.rhein-zeitung.de/region/lokales/diez_artikel,-Initiative-sammelt-42-000-Euro-fuer-Kinder-in-Haiti-_arid,1222734.htmlAartal. Vielen Menschen sind die schrecklichen Bilder nach dem Erdbeben im Januar 2010 noch in Erinnerung. Haiti hat sich auch nach vier Jahren nicht von der verheerenden Katastrophe mit 200 000 Toten und Millionen von Obdachlosen erholt.Tue, 21 Oct 2014 16:06:00 +0200rhein-zeitung-ea564045a802695504bdda62af42bc1d20141021160600