167300GDACS 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 Can your dog predict an earthquake? Evidence is shaky, say researchershttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/ssoa-cyd041718.phpFor centuries people have claimed that strange behavior by their cats, dogs and even cows can predict an imminent earthquake, but the first rigorous analysis of the phenomenon concludes that there is no strong evidence behind the claim. The paper published in the Bulletin of the Seismological....Tue, 17 Apr 2018 18:12:00 +0200eurekalert-6efbacacdadbaa0152f2440166ebf25320180417181200Japan quake aid in pictureshttps://www.nepalitimes.com/review/japan-quake-aid-in-pictures/To mark the progress in building an earthquake resilient Nepal, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is holding a photo exhibition on the occasion of the third anniversary of the 2015 disaster. The exhibition will showcase 26 visuals of the work JICA has been carrying out for post-quake....Tue, 17 Apr 2018 14:02:00 +0200nepalitimes-e942038ef50a73cb47ba7cf27467ce7d20180417140200Earthquake advisories can save liveshttps://www.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=1394777&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+japantimes+%28The+Japan+Times%3A+All+Stories%29KYOTO – I have long been intrigued with the effort to predict a large, potentially devastating earthquake in the Tokai region of Japan and the legislation that established how scientists and public officials were to respond, should precursory seismic activity reach the point of a warning issued by the prime minister.Tue, 17 Apr 2018 13:00:00 +0200japantimes-f00332da31da633a312d2730714acad420180417130000Tohoku hotels tally 1 million overnight stays by foreign tourists for first timehttps://www.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=news&p=1394229&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+japantimes+%28The+Japan+Times%3A+All+Stories%29The total number of nights spent by foreign guests in the disaster-hit northeast surpassed the 1 million mark in 2017 for the first time on the back of a continued increase in inbound tourism, according to a recent government survey. The survey by the Japan Tourism Agency showed a cumulative 1.Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:23:00 +0200japantimes-4f4c1fe147765142f460a6fc39fd29ea20180416122300