49720 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.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2429946&CategoryId=12395TOKYO – A magnitude-5.1 earthquake struck northeastern Japan on Thursday without a tsunami alert being issued or any reports of damages. The quake occurred at 5:06 pm at a depth of 30 kilometers (19 miles) with its epicenter in the sea, around 60 km off the coast of Kuji in Iwate prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.Fri, 27 Jan 2017 05:38:00 +0100laht-08f1c90535f2320061bc0dbb6d77f3c620170127053800http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-38756398Derechos de autor de la imagen Getty Images Image caption Hay cerca de 35.000 bombreos voluntarios en Chile. "Cuando vamos a combatir estos incendios nos despedimos de nuestras familias". Las autoridades chilenas confirmaron que cuatro bomberos y dos policías murieron combatiendo los feroces....Fri, 27 Jan 2017 05:35:00 +0100bbc-es-3e5a2c9d4f463dc9d1672ee88ccad5e120170127053500http://www.eluniversal.com/noticias/internacional/centenares-casas-destruidas-dejan-incendios-forestales-chile_636966Una de las situaciones más graves las vivió la pequeña localidad de Santa Olga, donde en la madrugada de este jueves se quemaron alrededor de un millar de viviendas, según informó Carlos Valenzuela, el alcalde de Constitución, comuna ubicada a unos 340 kilómetros al sur de la capital, Santiago de Chile.Fri, 27 Jan 2017 04:54:00 +0100eluniversal-9e2ee428cad3f00546246c8f2eca7cdb20170127045400http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-a-plan-to-stop-tsunamis-with-sound-wavesThe pressure of deep-ocean sound waves could be used to stop tsunamis in their tracks, researchers have found, by dissipating their energy across wider areas and reducing the height and speed of these monster waves before they reach land. - which can be caused by earthquakes, landslides, or any....Fri, 27 Jan 2017 04:14:00 +0100sciencealert-2bb05b07cbaf189902e3be0ca783bcc220170127041400