203160 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.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a23782305/magnetic-field-tsunami-earthquake-detection/When preparing for a natural disaster, every second counts. Any tip off to an impending disaster gives residents a second longer to prepare and brace themselves for what's coming. Some natural disasters, like earthquakes and tsunamis, actually have warning systems built in: localized changes in geomagnetic fields.Mon, 15 Oct 2018 20:05:00 +0200popularmechanics-debfa5cc1be7ff6e83e10b8d4addc04220181015200500http://ec.europa.eu/echo/what/civil-protection/mechanism_enWhy is this important? Civil protection assistance consists of governmental aid delivered in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. It can take the form of in-kind assistance, deployment of specially-equipped teams or assessment and coordination by experts sent to the field. Yet, disasters know no borders.Mon, 15 Oct 2018 18:45:00 +0200EC-deef61daa7dfc38cf7c75f82b6c1443c20181015184500https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1558294/disasters-discriminate-disaster-response-should-notWhen landslides devastated parts of Khatlon province in Tajikistan in early 2009, the village of Baldzhuvan was better prepared than most. Bibi Rahimova, a local community organiser, had spent years alerting people to the dangers of living beneath unstable terrain.Mon, 15 Oct 2018 14:02:00 +0200BangkokPost-b8d8304895e2ad5442550c98245c825720181015140200https://www.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=life&p=1523423&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+japantimes+%28The+Japan+Times%3A+All+Stories%29Sample newspaper article. 作家の村上春樹さん（69）が6日、米ニューヨークで開かれた芸術イベントに出席した。東日本大震災などの大きな災害や事件が自身の作品に与えた影響に触れ「（被災者ら） 苦しんでいる人たちに私ができることは、 良い物語を書くことだ」と語った。 イベントは米誌ニューヨーカーが主催し、村上さんは同誌編集者と対談。1995年の 地下鉄サリン事件後に被害者らを訪ねて インタビューしたノンフィクション「アンダーグラウンド」を発表した経緯や、出身地の 兵庫県で同年に起きた阪神大震災の後に震災をテーマに短編集を書いた経緯を紹介した。 (KYODO) Words and phrases.Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:01:00 +0200japantimes-537e258b13a8b4015d0f95c03ad07abe20181015110100