32930 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.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/san-francisco-area-experiences-40-earthquake-early-monday-morning-10459253.htmlA small earthquake shook northern California, delivering a "quick, short shake," according to one witness in Oakland. Reuters said the US Geological Survey registered the quake at magnitude 4.0 on the Richter scale, centred one mile north of Piedmont.Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:04:00 +0200independent-UK-7ad5193fbdb87f74c9db8fd152c05a2420150817190400http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/saltwater-plants-1.3193535?cmp=rss"Sea level rise is inevitable, and we are not prepared," said Swaminathan, who pioneered high-yield wheat and rice varieties for India in the 1960s. "The biggest problem in India is just the very large population. We can say people can relocate, but where could we even accommodate all those who need....Mon, 17 Aug 2015 18:41:00 +0200CBC-f19f8a24a68ca4c21e6a3aeffbd441c520150817184100http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3008033&cloc=joongangdaily%7Chome%7Cnewslist2By the time Krishnamoorthi Ratnam Ravindran was named the president of Rotary International, a global network of 1.2 million volunteer leaders, he was a respected businessman who had built one of the world’s largest suppliers of tea bag packaging. Printcare, a publicly listed company with some 700....Mon, 17 Aug 2015 18:17:00 +0200joongangdaily-a381e96b8129b2e6fa76ef646a7fe7fc20150817181700http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/japon-un-volcan-menace-une-centrale-tout-juste-redemarreeVue aérienne du volcan Sakurajima en mai 2015. AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS. Le niveau d’alerte du volcan Sakurajima a été relevé samedi, quelques jours après la relance d’un réacteur situé à proximité. L’état d’alerte risque d’être maintenu. Le volcan Sakurajima, dans le sud du Japon, est entré en....Mon, 17 Aug 2015 18:13:00 +0200courrierinternational-1b1072630ea4de78f268b63f43f4cb5920150817181300