13760 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.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20150122-drawing-disaster-response-lessons-by-comparing-quake-responsesFollowing the devastating 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake which hit the Tohoku region of Japan, many local and provincial governments rushed to aid the people in the area with personnel and materials, providing important relief in a time of crisis. At a recent symposium, some were comparing the....Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:43:00 +0100homelandsecuritynewswire-3a0739a4c425af8b0ad4a1e480a47ae320150122214300http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/spanish/2015/01/unisdir-la-ultima-decada-ha-presenciado-algunos-de-los-peores-desastres-naturales-de-la-historia/Este jueves se cumplen diez años de la adopción por la comunidad internacional en Hyogo, Japón, de un marco de acción para gestionar mejor el riesgo y reducir el impacto de los desastres. La medida tuvo lugar a raíz del devastador tsunami del Océano Índico ocurrido en diciembre de 2004 que se cobró unas 227.Thu, 22 Jan 2015 19:43:00 +0100unmultimedia-es-814c60eb9962f729af31f3c68dc6a77020150122194300http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-22/prosecutors-say-fukushima-execs-wont-face-charges/6037244Japanese prosecutors say three former Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) executives will not be charged over their handling of the 2011 Fukushima disaster, setting up a possible showdown with a rarely used citizen's panel that could still force an indictment.Thu, 22 Jan 2015 14:48:00 +0100abc-au-5667e2a0b308a0468658df3bb7f33e3c20150122144800http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2015-01-22/tepco-executives-wont-face-charges-over-fukushima-disaster-japan-prosecutors-say/1409087Japanese prosecutors say three former Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) executives will not be charged over their handling of the 2011 Fukushima disaster, setting up a possible showdown with a rarely used citizen's panel that could still force an indictment.Thu, 22 Jan 2015 14:40:00 +0100radioaustralianews-0ada11c722608c785bef707add0a60ac20150122144000