4410 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://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/13/18/phivolcs-we-cannot-predict-earthquakesMANILA - The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Friday warned the public against social media posts about earthquake occurrence predictions. In a Twitter post, Phivolcs reiterated that there is no reliable technology today that can predict when and where a tremor will happen.Fri, 13 Apr 2018 05:09:00 +0200abs-cbnnews-966c7bceb8eea60d99586ebc5d8904c520180413050900http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5598955/Ring-Fire-activity-returns-series-earthquakes-shake-California-Alaska.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490A series of earthquakes shook the US yesterday with several hitting worryingly close to the Ring of Fire, sparking fears a massive tremor could be on the way. The most powerful of this latest cluster - which also shook Alaska and California - came in Perry, Oklahoma, where a 4.3 magnitude tremor struck.Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:56:00 +0200dailymail-a05507be641d7ca942fbb5f0e367602320180410155600http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5598955/Ring-Fire-activity-returns-series-earthquakes-shake-California-Alaska.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490A series of earthquakes shook the US yesterday with several hitting worryingly close to the Ring of Fire, sparking fears a massive tremor could be on the way. The most powerful of this latest cluster - which also shook Alaska and California - came in Perry, Oklahoma, where a 4.3 magnitude tremor struck.Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:38:00 +0200dailymail-a074cf70e97f90e4e998e687ada709be20180410153800https://reliefweb.int/report/world/cred-crunch-newsletter-issue-no-50-march-2018-natural-disasters-2017-lower-mortalityIn 2017, EM-DAT data indicates that 318 natural disasters occurred, affecting 122 countries. The impact of which resulted in 9,503 deaths, 96 million people affected, and US$314 billion in economic damages. The human impact of natural disasters in 2017 was much lower than the last 10 year average,....Mon, 09 Apr 2018 12:54:00 +0200reliefWeb-e4bdcd4639429f3497b7805448aafb9e20180409125400