234290 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://reliefweb.int/report/world/seismic-risk-and-20th-anniversary-kobe-earthquake16 January 2015, KOBE/GENEVA – The Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Margareta Wahlström, today congratulated the Japanese people and government for their steadfast remembrance of the 6,434 people who lost their lives on 17 January 1995 when the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake struck at 5.Mon, 19 Jan 2015 19:42:00 +0100reliefWeb-06102386f4d06edca4050ae25f38441620150119194200http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2015/01/20/2003609696Vincent Basiano sang and cheered along with a sea of other joyous typhoon survivors as Pope Francis celebrated Mass on a rainy Philippine day, but all too quickly the euphoria passed. Basiano lost his shanty home when Super Typhoon Haiyan, the most powerful storm recorded on land, claimed thousands....Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:33:00 +0100taipeitimes-213063891a2eba7613b27dff3175536c20150119183300http://www.lemauricien.com/article/apres-passage-bansi-rodrigues-se-mobiliseL'agriculture, l'un des secteurs le plus touchés par les pluies diluviennes, l'objet d'une enquête approfondie; Le tsunami de Raj Dayal fait des vagues politiques à Rodrigues avec le chef commissaire, Serge Clair, qui proteste contre ce cas de lèse-autonomie.Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:17:00 +0100lemauricien-c1cca5cc0d5e0844882205927160804820150119181700http://www.vancouversun.com/news/metro/Photos+Vancouver+Island+living+under+threat+massive/10741813/story.htmlPachena Bay on Vancouver Island is the picturesque beach that scientists forecast as an epicentre for the next massive earthquake and tsunami. The 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....Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:03:00 +0100vancouversun-c2f806bc49b2d95aad7f19c543c7690320150119180300