268130 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.thedailyherald.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58117:ning-nong-the-elephant&catid=25:kids-herald&Itemid=38Ten years ago, a tsunami struck Thailand. A tsunami is a set of large powerful waves caused by an earthquake on the sea floor. This particular tsunami was especially devastating because nobody was expecting it. Thailand is also very flat, which allowed the wave to travel inland a long distance until it lost power.Mon, 31 Aug 2015 21:35:00 +0200thedailyherald-cb360ca8f834b9b89ea67f544cb39bdd20150831213500http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/08/31/pondering-a-36-foot-storm-surge-in-tampa-and-other-gray-swan-disasters/A NASA computer model simulates the astonishing track and forceful winds of Hurricane Sandy. On Saffir-Simpson scale, this wasn't a "major" storm at landfall. (William Putnam/NASA/GSFC) Excellent Science Word of the Day: "Paleotempestology." It's the study of prehistoric storms.Mon, 31 Aug 2015 20:03:00 +0200WashingtonPost-300f2e1b743dc4e34461f399f850b2e420150831200300http://www.mz-web.de/wirtschaft/muellberg-von-50-millionen-tonnen-erwartet-un-spricht-von--tsunami-aus-elektroschrott-,20642182,31639982.htmlBerlin. Der Chef des UN-Umweltprogramms, Achim Steiner, wählte kürzlich eine sehr anschauliche Beschreibung der Lage: Man sei konfrontiert mit einem „beispiellosen Tsunami aus Elektroschrott“. Der globale Müllberg aus ausgedienten Computern, Fernsehern oder Handys wachse schon bis 2017 von heute 40....Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:31:00 +0200mz-web-558e0c0d7761bae6c3bb87e02ae8b1e420150831183100http://www.rttnews.com/story.aspx?Id=2546670What will be impact of an earthquake-induced powerful tsunami in the thickly populated eastern Mediterranean region? Scientists of the University of Bologna in Italy and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece did a detailed evaluation of the tsunamigenic zones off the cities Sicily and Crete.Mon, 31 Aug 2015 17:52:00 +0200rttnews-15877b87632ee403c1e7924e3dd89b1220150831175200