22020 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://japantoday.com/category/national/panel-proposes-mass-evacuation-of-coastal-areas-if-mega-quake-hitsA government council on anti-disaster measures on Tuesday proposed that all residents of Japan's central and western coastal areas should evacuate if the region is hit by a massive earthquake that could occur in the next 30 years. The council called on the government to issue evacuation orders for....Tue, 11 Dec 2018 23:36:00 +0100japantoday-95fd9cc0fe0997a56bd02d2734d7417520181211233600http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Global_Rescue_to_assist_in_developing_Jamaicas_tourism_resilience__Bartlett?profile=1470KINGSTON, Jamaica — Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has announced that Jamaica is now making formal arrangements with Global Rescue to assist with the development of the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre, which will be launched next year in Jamaica.Tue, 11 Dec 2018 20:18:00 +0100jamaicaobserver-c7c8643f14d7faa18e9d728938c6332120181211201800https://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/world-news/214291/-surprise--palu-tsunami-clue-found-on-seafloor.htmlThe quake occurred on what is called a strike-slip fault, where the ground on one side of a rupture moves horizontally past the ground on the other side. It is not a configuration normally associated with very large tsunamis. Nevertheless, this is what happened in the early evening of 28 September, around prayer time.Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:59:00 +0100vietnamnet-en-35060a67643f2f872bae0e715bc7a84220181211105900http://www.iran-daily.com/News/235602.htmlDamaging waves rushed ashore after a Magnitude 7.8 quake, but researchers said at the time that they were surprised by their size, BBC reported. Now, a survey in the bay in front of the Sulawesi city shows significant subsidence of the seabed. This likely contributed to the abrupt displacement of water that then crashed on to land.Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:55:00 +0100iran-daily-8593d1818ef91d4fe65da6301a69f73420181211105500