9800GDACS 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 Revolution in quake detection technologyhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44683284Image copyright Science Photo Library. Earthquakes may now become easier to detect than ever before, with the aid of developing technology. Researchers in Iceland have successfully used an existing fibre-optic communications cable to assess seismic activity.Wed, 04 Jul 2018 17:45:00 +0200bbc-2d05f0a5b4aa19962a3c41cf51cf6bd520180704174500The fiber optic cables that deliver your internet can also detect earthquakes Seismographs are highly sensitive devices, and they do a good job of registering earthquakes at specific locations. But fiber optic cables — the data lines that delivered these words — can do much, much better.https://www.dw.com/en/the-fiber-optic-cables-that-deliver-your-internet-can-also-detect-earthquakes/a-44520210As interconnected as it all sounds, though, a weak point remains: The seismometers are usually located at huge distances from one another, all across our globe — often hundreds of kilometers apart. Scientists are then forced to reconstruct the location and magnitude of an earthquake from the records of the nearest seismometers.Wed, 04 Jul 2018 16:49:00 +0200dw-en-0eba926c602aca8e8a534f4bf749d4ed20180704164900The fiber optic cables that deliver your internet can also detect earthquakes Seismographs are highly sensitive devices, and they do a good job of registering earthquakes at specific locations. But fiber optic cables — the data lines that delivered these words — can do much, much better.https://www.dw.com/en/the-fiber-optic-cables-that-deliver-your-internet-can-also-detect-earthquakes/a-44520210As interconnected as it all sounds, though, a weak point remains: The seismometers are usually located at huge distances from one another, all across our globe — often hundreds of kilometers apart. Scientists are then forced to reconstruct the location and magnitude of an earthquake from the records of the nearest seismometers.Wed, 04 Jul 2018 16:31:00 +0200deutschewelle-en-f9a67e24baf374ea386b015a84a0979b20180704163100Internet cables can aid quake detectionhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44683284Image copyright Science Photo Library Image caption Fibre optic cables are widely used for communications. Earthquakes may now become easier to detect than ever before, with the aid of developing technology. Researchers in Iceland have successfully used an existing fibre-optic communications cable to assess seismic activity.Wed, 04 Jul 2018 16:13:00 +0200bbc-49d707a0a6d03fdcf5116c393c3c603620180704161300