171300GDACS 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 animals really predict earthquakes? Evidence is shaky, scientists sayhttps://www.stuff.co.nz/science/103381099/Can-animals-really-predict-earthquakes-Evidence-is-shaky-scientists-sayShould you worry about an earthquake if you see your dog acting strangely? For thousands of years, people have claimed that odd behaviour by animals could predict an imminent earthquake, but a study - apparently the first rigorous analysis of the phenomenon - found there is no strong evidence behind the claim.Wed, 25 Apr 2018 06:00:00 +0200Stuff-68dd2c6cea90b0ea9f46086c5bee3b0e20180425060000Can our pets sense quakes? The evidence is too shakyhttp://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12039228&ref=rssScientists say there's no strong evidence to back the age-old myth that animals can sense big quakes before we do. In quake-prone New Zealand, the idea that animals can predict impending disasters has long persisted; after 2016's Kaikoura Earthquake, one camper reported to Newstalk ZB how some....Wed, 25 Apr 2018 02:54:00 +0200nzherald-0d8a42e535e2cee0400b2a6d71942fac20180425025400Can animals really predict earthquakes? Evidence is shaky, scientists sayhttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/24/can-animals-predict-earthquakes-evidence-shaky/542943002/Should you worry about an earthquake if you see Fluffy or Fido acting strangely? For thousands of years, people have claimed that odd behavior by cats, dogs, snakes, bugs and even cows could predict an imminent earthquake, but a study — apparently the first rigorous analysis of the phenomenon — found there is no strong evidence behind the claim.Tue, 24 Apr 2018 18:23:00 +0200freep-99b283ad2efab13a20dce50e09f9e07e20180424182300News Can animals really predict earthquakes? Scientists weigh the shaky evidencehttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/24/can-animals-predict-earthquakes-evidence-shaky/542943002/Should you worry about an earthquake if you see Fluffy or Fido acting strangely? For thousands of years, people have claimed that odd behavior by cats, dogs, snakes, bugs and even cows could predict an imminent earthquake, but a study — apparently the first rigorous analysis of the phenomenon — found there is no strong evidence behind the claim.Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:18:00 +0200usaToday-99b283ad2efab13a20dce50e09f9e07e20180424171800