171300 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://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article209477939.html#navlink=SecListA second study on how the $17 billion vitrification plant under construction at Hanford would handle ashfall from a volcano is close to completion, McDuffie said. Volcanic ash is not an issue for most sites, he said. But Hanford risks include Mount S.t Helens, which dumped heavy, gritty ash across Eastern Washington when it erupted in 1980.Sat, 21 Apr 2018 23:17:00 +0200tri-cityherald-4dcca1616a3b227d155ac66d1e661d7220180421231700http://www.nampa.org/index.php?model=categories&function=display&id=17834204. Contributed by NAMPA / Xinhua. TOKYO, April 21 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck off the coast of Chiba prefecture, eastern Japan, on Saturday, Japan Meteorological Agency said. The temblor occurred at 6:47 p.m. local time, with the epicenter at a latitude of 35.6 degrees north and a longitude of 131.Sat, 21 Apr 2018 12:28:00 +0200nampa-550e6bebf00542b878398f15a054accb20180421122800http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/21/c_137127176.htmTOKYO, April 21 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck off the coast of Chiba prefecture, eastern Japan, on Saturday, Japan Meteorological Agency said. The temblor occurred at 6:47 p.m. local time, with the epicenter at a latitude of 35.6 degrees north and a longitude of 131.Sat, 21 Apr 2018 12:15:00 +0200xinhuanet_en-74504c0eb66f3b90e8788444179b945320180421121500https://en.tengrinews.kz/disasters/65-quake-hits-east-Japan-USGS-22356/A strong 6.5 magnitude earthquake hit eastern Japan on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, but local authorities said there was no risk of a tsunami, reports. AFP The quake struck at 0018 GMT at a depth of 404 kilometres (251 miles), the USGS said. "The epicentre is in the Pacific, hundreds of kilometres (miles) south of Tokyo.Sat, 21 Apr 2018 06:30:00 +0200tengrinews-d04d2c387a2254b4e2ad297c0410042c20180421063000