417360GDACS EMM News Feed 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 Eastern Japan shaken by 5.6 magnitude quake, no tsunami warninghttp://news.trust.org/item/20170228080446-6mnbr/?source=spotnewsfeedFeb 28 (Reuters) - A 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook a wide swathe of eastern and northeastern Japan on Tuesday, including the capital Tokyo where buildings swayed, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The tremor came less than two weeks before the sixth anniversary of a March 11, 2011, 9.Wed, 01 Mar 2017 05:31:00 +0100trust-ca441e105ee182885a9f1c6fa9b6889920170301053100The greatest danger asteroids pose to us is not from the impact If an asteroid hits a major city, only 3 per cent of the casualties will be from the crater it forms – most will be from overheated air and high windshttps://www.newscientist.com/article/2122612-the-greatest-danger-asteroids-pose-to-us-is-not-from-the-impact/By Leah Crane. Wind kills. The most casualties from an asteroid impact won’t come from the impact itself. The wind, pressure and heat caused by the crash are far more dangerous, no matter where the asteroid hits. Clemens Rumpf at the University of Southampton, UK, and his colleagues have calculated....Wed, 01 Mar 2017 05:26:00 +0100newscientist-13e3bb317b3f93bfb6aafc8f38b2b878201703010526007 Añoshttp://elperiodicodemexico.com/noticias_historicas.php?PortadaHace=2010-02-28&anio=709:27, 2010-02-28. Al menos 300 muertos, dos millones de damnificados y graves daños en infraestrucutra es el saldo preliminar del terremoto de 8.8 grados de magnitud que azotó el sábado a Chile y que generó alertas de tsunami para todos los países del Pacífico. 09:32, 2010-02-28. "Ni locos volvemos a entrar.Wed, 01 Mar 2017 05:18:00 +0100elperiodicodemexico-f9bd81291f57a309aa6cb1bc395ce89620170301051800Fuerte terremoto sin consecuencias en Japón, en la región de Fukushimahttp://www.deperu.com/noticias/fuerte-terremoto-sin-consecuencias-en-japon-en-la-region-de-fukushima-77706.htmlUn terremoto de magnitud 5,6 se produjo este martes en el noreste de Japón, cerca de la central nuclear de Fukushima, y se sintió en Tokio. El terremoto no provocó riesgo de tsunami, indicó la Agencia Meteorológica de Japón. El seísmo de magnitud 5,6 tuvo su epicentro en el océano Pacífico, a 42,3....Wed, 01 Mar 2017 05:17:00 +0100deperu-eeff5d89c1b36f7ea55dbb3993d0318e20170301051700