174180GDACS 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 SCO countries hold preparatory meeting for joint exercise on urban earthquake search and rescuehttps://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/sco-countries-hold-preparatory-meeting-for-joint-exercise-on-urban-earthquake-search-and-rescue-118110101308_1.htmlThe two-day long preparatory meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Joint Exercise on Urban Earthquake Search & Rescue- 2019 began on Thursday. This marks the first phase of the main exercise scheduled for 21-24 February, 2019 in Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) highlighted the....Thu, 01 Nov 2018 16:20:00 +0100business-standard-59a7da1849fb6257339c9c446c3412f720181101162000Earthquake strikess New Zealand with 6.2-magnitude tremor The Guardianhttps://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/new-zealand-earthquake-62-magnitude-tremor-halts-parliament/ar-BBP5Fa5When: Dec. 26, 2004. Intensity on Richter Scale: 9.1. The massive temblor resulted in a tsunami that devastated many regions of the Indian Ocean. Besides Indonesia, other countries seriously affected were Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, the Maldives and Somalia.Tue, 30 Oct 2018 06:48:00 +0100msn-uk-120d0ef2c3aa40363a09886e1ae3451820181030064800Final send-off for paraglider who died in Indiahttps://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/final-send-off-for-paraglider-who-died-in-indiaSINGAPORE - Family and friends said their last goodbye to paraglider Ng Kok Choong who died in India after a paragliding accident, at his funeral on Sunday (Oct 28). Mr Ng, 53, had also last month when he and another paraglider rescued a woman and a child from the rubble after an earthquake struck Palu, Indonesia.Tue, 30 Oct 2018 04:46:00 +0100straitstimesSG-911ffc139aa8a6b4e4f29058852ad54c20181030044600India 5.3 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Parts of Jammu And Kashmirhttps://www.india.com/news/india/5-3-magnitude-earthquake-hits-parts-of-jammu-and-kashmir-no-damage-reported-3405642/New Delhi: An earthquake of a magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter scale hit parts of Jammu and Kashmir , news agency ANI reported on Monday. The tremors, according to the reports, were felt at around 8:13 p.m. No damage or casualty has been reported so far. More details are awaited. On October 19, a mild earthquake of a magnitude of 5.Mon, 29 Oct 2018 18:26:00 +0100india-a4b43becbfeaf391d4b9132cc0dbffd420181029182600