1500 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://reliefweb.int/report/world/eighth-pacific-tsunami-drill-set-september-november-2018Over 40 countries around the Pacific Rim will participate in a mock tsunami scenario from September to November 2018. The purpose of this exercise is to test country tsunami decision-making procedures and communication systems and processes. “The events of the 2009 Samoa Islands Region, 2010 Chile,....Fri, 21 Sep 2018 16:56:00 +0200reliefWeb-404724b3dae6afaef83f8d645932f17620180921165600https://reliefweb.int/report/philippines/asean-weekly-disaster-update-10-16-september-2018Regional Summary of Week 37 and Outlook for Week 38. 1) In Week 37, monsoon season still prevails with large concerns raised over Super Typhoon Mangkhut (Ompong) which passed through Philippines and affecting China and Viet Nam. 2) Dry weather continue to persist and became key factor of wild fire in several parts of Indonesia.Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:54:00 +0200reliefWeb-fde187ec43b06550fc644521cf5fa59e20180917185400http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-17/wa-earthquakes-explained/10255300The largest was the 6.5-magnitude quake at Meckering in 1968 that injured 20 and left hundreds of families homeless. But Western Australia is in the middle of a tectonic plate, so how do earthquakes even happen here in the first place? No fault line doesn't mean no worries.Mon, 17 Sep 2018 08:15:00 +0200abc-au-c93772726938c31c3c93f0b10fdd765220180917081500http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-17/wa-earthquakes-explained/10255300on Sunday afternoon. West Australian town of Walpole, about 430 kilometres south-east of Perth, with tremors felt as far away as Perth and Albany No serious damage was reported, but the quake was considered "uncommonly large". Some of the largest recorded earthquakes across Australia have happened in WA.Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:30:00 +0200abc-au-fa7c93a81125d38d0808ae096930347d20180917073000