27320 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.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/279437/tonga-not-ready-to-respond-to-any-tsunami-threatThe director of Tonga's Meteorological Service says the country lacks the capacity and resources to respond quickly to a tsunami. Ofa Fa'anunu raised his concerns during the Pacific Meteorological Council which is underway in Nuku'alofa. Radio Tonga reports him saying that the mobile phone systems....Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:34:00 +0200rnzi-68379b692f7bcf228ac39159e3f6b3f120150722103400http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150722/environment/Natural-disasters-forced-20m-to-leave-their-homes-in-2014.577642Nearly 20 million people were forced to flee their homes due to floods, storms and earthquakes last year, a problem likely to worsen due to climate change, but which could be eased by better construction, a report said. Asia is particularly prone to natural disasters, accounting for almost 90 per cent of the 19.Wed, 22 Jul 2015 09:50:00 +0200timesofmalta-bb120c284b4e87142be1cbf95b1b539c20150722095000http://www.laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=12395&ArticleId=2392786TOKYO – Tamaura-nishi became the first Japanese town to be built from scratch, on land devastated by the tsunami, which hit north-eastern Japan in 2011. The town will start housing its first 833 residents from this week onwards, in 315 houses. The residents of Tamaura-nishi, located in Iwanuma....Wed, 22 Jul 2015 09:41:00 +0200laht-41104226ac70f07d50d601e9405bc3ea20150722094100http://sipse.com/mundo/reconstruccion-pueblos-tsunami-japon-tamaura-nishi-162208.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sipsePuntoCom+%28Al+momento+en+sipse.com%29EFE TOKIO, Japón.- El pueblo nipón de Tamaura-nishi , el primero en construirse desde cero sobre tierra devastada por el tsunami de 2011 , se ha hecho realidad cuatro años después de la tragedia que golpeó el noreste de Japón y desde esta semana acoge a sus primeros 833 vecinos.Wed, 22 Jul 2015 09:19:00 +0200sipse-2eb5f5bbb015b9918933a68196d91ede20150722091900