17510 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.theepochtimes.com/4-8-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-baja-california-miles-from-border_2719508.htmlA 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck near the U.S.-Mexico border in Baja California, Mexico, and it was felt in San Diego and other parts of Southern California. in Southern California reported that a number of people in San Diego, located 180 miles to the west-northwest of the epicenter, felt the quake.Tue, 20 Nov 2018 00:28:00 +0100theepochtimes-d1dfed6d18608b2d65a3f9efd3ebdee520181120002800https://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/information-technology/earthquake-researchers-finalists-for-supercomputing-prize.htmlTsuyoshi Ichimura together with Kohei Fujita, Takuma Yamaguchi, Kengo Nakajima, Muneo Hori and Lalith Maddegedara were praised for their simulation of earthquake physics in complex urban environments. Earthquakes are a huge problem in many places around the world including, famously, Japan.Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:28:00 +0100innovations-report-ecaea96ed988257707a880ac43793c5c20181119162800http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Earthquake_researchers_finalists_for_supercomputing_prize_999.htmlA team of researchers from the Earthquake Research Institute, Department of Civil Engineering and Information Technology Center at the University of Tokyo, and the RIKEN Center for Computational Science and RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project in Japan were finalists for the coveted Gordon....Sun, 18 Nov 2018 22:04:00 +0100terradaily-bc766fc5b986c5468717b1a725eea4ba20181118220400https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/what-happened-when-133-ft-waves-swept-in-a-new-book-documents-the-tohoku-tsunamiby Richard Lloyd Parry (Jonathan Cape, £16.99) Tohoku is a region to which most Tokyoites would never venture. Seen as a “rustic” and old-world place, the accent is hard to understand for those not originally from north-east Japan. Richard Lloyd Parry, the Asia Editor of the Times , spent six years....Sun, 18 Nov 2018 12:32:00 +0100prospectmagazine-303638754e33022945b0bfc0c6135dd320181118123200