281470GDACS 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 Papua New Guinea in bid to quake-proof buildings sitting on the Ring of Firehttp://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2018-03-18/papua-new-guinea-in-bid-to-quakeproof-buildings-sitting-on-the-ring-of-fire/1743310Sitting at the collision point of several tectonic plates, Papua New Guinea is ranked the 10th most disaster-prone country in the world and is regularly rattled by earthquakes. But as the developing nation undergoes a rapid period of urbanisation, there are fears buildings are not being constructed....Sat, 17 Mar 2018 23:06:00 +0100radioaustralianews-dc8a8ff71825528376b2e2d90792608b20180317230600Papua New Guinea in bid to quake-proof buildings sitting on the Ring of Firehttp://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2018-03-18/papua-new-guinea-in-bid-to-quakeproof-buildings-sitting-on-the-ring-of-fire/1743310Sitting at the collision point of several tectonic plates, Papua New Guinea is ranked the 10th most disaster-prone country in the world and is regularly rattled by earthquakes. But as the developing nation undergoes a rapid period of urbanisation, there are fears buildings are not being constructed....Sat, 17 Mar 2018 22:46:00 +0100radioaustralia-dc8a8ff71825528376b2e2d90792608b20180317224600How Australia is helping quake-proof houses on the Pacific's Ring of Firehttp://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-18/earthquake-proof-buildings-in-papua-new-guinea/9554576Sitting at the collision point of several tectonic plates, Papua New Guinea is ranked the 10th most disaster-prone country in the world and is regularly rattled by earthquakes. But as the developing nation undergoes a rapid period of urbanisation, there are fears buildings are not being constructed....Sat, 17 Mar 2018 22:40:00 +0100abc-au-b38ef6e2953f9a4814c35d3747cb71ba20180317224000Papua New Guinea: Papua New Guinea: Highlands Earthquake Situation Report No. 3 (as of 17 March 2018)https://reliefweb.int/report/papua-new-guinea/papua-new-guinea-highlands-earthquake-situation-report-no-3-17-march-2018Background - According to initial estimates, over 544,000 people are affected across the five most affected provinces. Over 270,000 people require immediate humanitarian assistance. - Priority needs remain food, water, shelter, and health. - An estimated 143,127 people have been rendered food insecure due to landslides destroying food gardens.Sat, 17 Mar 2018 15:24:00 +0100reliefWeb-5fb35be2e0b7988f0714c2e208426fc620180317152400