18081560 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 https://www.wired.com/2016/11/lockheed-martin-kmax-sara-indago-firefighting-drones/. You might be impatient for a self-driving car that can roll you from the bar to your house when you’re too buzzed to drive, but autonomous vehicles have bigger problems to worry about. Like wildfires. Since 2000, the fire season has grown longer, and the damage more severe .Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:00:00 +0100wired-905444b488d3be4811fd0f72415e06c820161117140000http://reliefweb.int/report/indonesia/indonesia-earthquake-gdacs-usgs-bmkg-local-media-echo-daily-flash-17-november-2016An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 M at a depth of approx. 86 km hit Indonesia, off the coasts of Java island on 16 November at 15.10 UTC. The epicentre was located approx. 72 km south-southwest of Kepanjen sub-district (Malang district, East Java province). USGS PAGER estimated a shaking up to "Light" for 5 485 000 people.Thu, 17 Nov 2016 13:42:00 +0100reliefWeb-c26fe73a22ab3d829486a7f0a7862fd720161117134200http://www.independent.ie/world-news/asia-pacific/earthquake-with-magnitude-of-62-strikes-off-coast-of-japan-35209100.htmlAn earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 struck off the coast of Japan, 65 km east-northeast of the city of Sendai, at 6:43 a.m. on Saturday (2143 GMT Friday), the U.S. Geological Survey said. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said "a destructive pacific-wide tsunami is not expected".Thu, 17 Nov 2016 13:27:00 +0100independent-ie-da2efe95b3833e70a690887bc3a88f7520161117132700http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11750176&ref=rssWhat would happen if big quakes hit Wellington or Auckland? GNS Science experts have looked at both scenarios and crunched the numbers, finding potentially catastrophic scenarios for the capital and a much less likely - and less costly - quake probability for Auckland.Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:50:00 +0100nzherald-7d9a81201e20a4e758b27690ff55848620161117125000