573200 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.nbcsvg.com/2015/05/14/nemo-earthquake-report/The National Emergency Management Organization, NEMO, says an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7 was felt here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines this morning. A release from NEMO says the epicenter of the quake was 64 km East of Castries, St Lucia. NEMO says, according to information from the....Thu, 14 May 2015 23:13:00 +0200nbcsvg-0a1768fb29c1323d58f98bd31e8f2e5520150514231300http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/el-mundo/2015/sismo-53-sacude-regiones-norte-chile-1100026.htmlEl Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceanográfico de Chile indicó que las características del sismo no reunieron las condiciones necesarias para generar un tsunami en las costas del país; hasta el momento no se reportan daños ni heridos Un temblor de magnitud 5.Thu, 14 May 2015 23:02:00 +0200eluniversal-MX-927fa4d0a7129cad49ffe18daec27c6720150514230200http://betanews.com/2015/05/14/how-technology-helps-nepal-relief-efforts/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed+-+bn+-+Betanews+Full+Content+Feed+-+BNThe earthquake that struck Nepal two weeks ago has claimed the lives of more than 8,000 people, while a second has caused the death toll to rise further still. Natural disasters such as these shine a light upon the fragility of human life when faced with powerful tectonic forces.Thu, 14 May 2015 21:28:00 +0200betanews-dd38600b3aa090db8cb6c18a4f2f67ce20150514212800http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6236/766.3.shortPreparing for disasters. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) fully supports the development of “A community for disaster science” (M. McNutt, Editorial, 3 April, p. 11 ). Almost 2 years ago, we created the NIH Disaster Research Response (DR2) Project to facilitate the....Thu, 14 May 2015 21:03:00 +0200sciencemag-93d9a956bb1df4e0853684321dd1288d20150514210300