2600 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 https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-worked-out-why-the-leaning-tower-of-pisa-has-withstood-earthquakesThe Leaning Tower of Pisa and its 5.5 degree lean has vexed engineers for centuries. Partially constructed on unexpectedly soft soil, the ancient bell tower began to lean before it was even finished, a historical goof that went on to become one of the world's historical oddities - and made How can....Sat, 09 Jun 2018 00:07:00 +0200sciencealert-647a69e552a4ba53334de705fee6579b20180609000700https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/engineer-figures-out-why-leaning-tower-of-pisa-has-endured-centuries-of-earthquakes-and-wars/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_allThe Leaning Tower of Pisa and its 5.5 degree-lean have vexed engineers for centuries. Partially constructed on unexpectedly soft soil, the ancient bell tower began to lean before it was even finished, a historical goof that went on to become one of the world’s historical oddities — and made the tower a UNESCO World Heritage site.Fri, 08 Jun 2018 02:31:00 +0200seattletimes-f77ff4f70edafe6a762c9b87ff1fb9ba20180608023100https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/104555843/Leaning-Tower-of-Pisa-has-withstood-earthquakes-for-centuries-heres-howThe Leaning Tower of Pisa and its 5.5 degree lean has vexed engineers for centuries. Partially constructed on unexpectedly soft soil, the ancient bell tower began to lean before it was even finished, a historical goof that went on to become one of the world's historical oddities - and made the tower a UNESCO World Heritage site.Fri, 08 Jun 2018 01:26:00 +0200Stuff-42861e63594141b44d075e5dc949d93020180608012600http://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/06/05/earthquake-felt-in-southern-greece/Greece has felt a number of earthquakes on Tuesday, with the latest being a 4.8 Richter scale tremor 68 kilometers (42 miles) southeast of Kalamata in the Peloponnese. Striking at 11.52 a.m. local time (0852GMT), there have been no reports of any injuries. The European Seismological Center said it took place at a depth of 10 kilometers.Tue, 05 Jun 2018 20:17:00 +0200greekreporter-bd64f5a97d5198a37f51a1781841c8d520180605201700