617380 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.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/disaster-planning-its-good-to-talkA series of major disasters—from this summer’s floods in Pakistan and the brushfires in Russia, to recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, Hurricane Katrina and the 2005 tsunami—have left many people asking if the intensity and frequency of such events are increasing.Thu, 13 Jul 2017 18:30:00 +0200prospectmagazine-d03b52628d433e7672b26049bb32e15820170713183000http://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/07/13/17/magnitude-67-quake-strikes-off-papua-new-guinea-usgsSINGAPORE - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 struck off the town of Rabaul in the south Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties in the quake, which struck at a depth of 33 km (21 miles)....Thu, 13 Jul 2017 18:29:00 +0200abs-cbnnews-69eb2452f65ec896d6542a6cc0e01d2620170713182900http://www.sabanews.net/ar/news469087.htmبورت مورسبي- سبأ: ضرب زلزال بلغت قوته 7ر6 درجة على مقياس ريختر قبالة سواحل بابوا غينيا الجديدة جنوب غرب المحيط الهادي. وقالت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأمريكية في بيان لها اليوم الخميس، إن الزلزال كان على عمق 33 كيلومترا وعلى بعد حوالي 128 كيلومترا شرق جزيرة (نيو بريتن).Thu, 13 Jul 2017 18:01:00 +0200sabanews-cf0ed95191592f3541061ad02b9bdecc20170713180100http://aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/earthquake-off-north-korea-no-way-caused-by-nuke-test/860208By Alex Jensen. SEOUL. An unusually strong tremor struck deep below the seabed east of North Korea early Thursday, with South Korean and Japanese earthquake observers recording its magnitude at 6.3. While the U.S. Geological Survey placed its strength at 5.Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:43:00 +0200aa-en-1e53182c7ba42856a9588aa6454399aa20170713174300