50030 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.alternet.org/environment/cascadia-fault-due-massive-earthquakeIn late 2004, an undersea megathrust earthquake occurred off the west coast of Indonesia when the Indian Plate was subducted by the Burma Plate, triggering a series of devastating tsunamis along most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean. The earthquake and subsequent tsunamis killed over 230,000....Mon, 27 Jul 2015 19:36:00 +0200alternet-8c379d4538c2a878cdfe9f06021d0bf420150727193600http://www.bbc.com/portuguese/noticias/2015/07/150727_falha_geologica_eua_fnA falha geológica de San Andreas, que corta de norte a sul o Estado americano da Califórnia, é uma das mais estudadas do planeta e também a mais temida dos Estados Unidos. O que muitas pessoas não sabem é que, pouco mais ao norte, em frente à costa noroeste do país, existe outra falha geológica....Mon, 27 Jul 2015 18:53:00 +0200bbc-portuguese-brasil-b9438ec2605bd616db9d9b6b4b180ae720150727185300http://reliefweb.int/report/guatemala/bolet-n-informativo-no-3995-monitoreo-en-el-caribe-por-posible-tsunami-de-origenLa Secretaría Ejecutiva de la Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducción de Desastres –SE-CONRED- y el Instituto Nacional de Sismología, Vulcanología, Meteorología e Hidrología –INSIVUMEH-, mantienen el monitoreo y comunicación con el Centro Nacional de Alerta de Tsunamis que emitió una Alerta de....Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:56:00 +0200reliefWeb-088513c877ae248e2de6818df3c5519b20150727165600http://petra.gov.jo/Public_News/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?Site_Id=1&lang=2&NewsID=206052&CatID=-1Washington, July 27 (Petra) -- A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck near the South Pacific Island nation of Tonga, the U.S. Geological Survey said last night. The tremor was centered about 89 kilometers (55 miles) north of Neiafu, an isolated island midway between Tonga's main island group and Samoa, at a depth of 36 kilometers (22 miles).Mon, 27 Jul 2015 15:51:00 +0200petra-en-633ad883beaec27da1c28c52ed1a0e6820150727155100