3511070 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.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/faulty-tsunami-warning-system-in-phuket-worries-localsPHUKET (THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Since a deadly tsunami struck Phuket in 2004, local people have trained their ears to listen to any alerts from the warning towers only to learn that the system does not work properly. "I don't have much confidence in the warning towers system," Ms Kantima....Fri, 05 Oct 2018 05:29:00 +0200straitstimesSG-fd6c1838e1d716363aef5b258289a90420181005052900https://www.msf.org.uk/issues/natural-disastersHaiti showed how responding to a natural disaster often goes beyond the immediate crisis. The emergency phase, where we responded with surgery, medical care, psychological support, food, shelter and water, was relatively short. In the long term, we needed to contain and limit the spread of....Fri, 05 Oct 2018 05:27:00 +0200MSF-uk-a9d8eae5924cab4334f8225ab603277f20181005052700https://thethaiger.com/news/phuket/phuket-governor-inspects-the-phoenix-salvage-siteby Pratch Rujivanarom. The chances of an imminent repeat tsunami in the Andaman Sea is remote, while the tsunami risk in the Gulf of Thailand is even smaller to nearly impossible chance, say leading seismologists in the wake of public tsunami fears triggered by the recent devastation in Palu, Indonesia.Fri, 05 Oct 2018 05:07:00 +0200phuketgazette-d1048182238c86378fc3f30784641bff20181005050700http://www.pattayamail.com/worldnews/volcano-erupts-indonesian-island-earlier-quake-224970Plumes of volcanic ash rise out of Mount Soputan, Wednesday, Oct. 3, from the village of Tombatu, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Yehezkiel Dondokambey) Jakarta, Indonesia (AP) — A volcano erupted Wednesday on the same central Indonesian island struck last week by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, but no evacuations were ordered.Fri, 05 Oct 2018 02:20:00 +0200pattayamail-e54d600415ab48822387fce478bc144c20181005022000