446530 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://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-megathrust-earthquake-will-rip-earth-open-like-a-zipper-expert-says-1.2917261?cmp=rssThe bay is also the home to the Huu-ay-aht First Nations village of Anacla, about 300 kilometres northwest of Victoria, which aboriginal oral history says was devastated when an ancient earthquake convulsed the West Coast of North America. First Nations from Vancouver Island to northern California....Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:13:00 +0100CBC-43df430b23b2df86967deeb61b3368ae20150119151300http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/people/AJ201501190067The son of a geisha has taken on his mother's dying wish of helping reinvigorate the traditional “hanamachi” entertainment district in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward, doing his part as perhaps the only male geisha in the country. December 07, 2013. AOMORI--Chikano Fujima, known as the “last geisha” of....Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:57:00 +0100ajw-f7d145f022533483e067d995dc4d1a5120150119105700http://www.ibtimes.co.in/earth-will-rip-open-like-zipper-if-earthquake-strikes-vancouver-island-again-experts-620819Experts have warned that if a mega-thrust earthquake were to hit the Vancouver Island, like it did around 315 years ago, the Earth could rip open like a zipper and the people living along the outer coast would only have between 15 and 20 minutes to escape.Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:45:00 +0100ibtimes-in-64f013aab29d714e9367477c334672b720150119104500http://www.gulf-times.com/ASEAN-Philippines/188/details/423829/Pope-euphoria-fades-in-Philippine-typhoon-zoneStudents perform during the departure of Pope Francis at Villamor Air Base in Pasay city, metro Manila, on Mondy. The pope left the Philippines at the end of a week-long trip to Asia that culminated with a rain-soaked Mass for about seven million people in the capital of Asia's most populous....Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:19:00 +0100gulf-times-4d61dd92bb7fc17722fe02b1707923b720150119101900