40230 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.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12175563&ref=rssA new state-of-the-art centre will keep a constant watch on New Zealand's biggest geological threats. The National Geohazards Monitoring Centre, based at GNS Science's Lower Hutt campus, will be manned 24 hours a day by a team of geohazard analysts. The centre would provide monitoring and advisory....Wed, 12 Dec 2018 01:40:00 +0100nzherald-1b58a2a117458c424e472ed0cfb164c620181212014000http://www.voxy.co.nz/business/5/328361Palmerston North City Council has accepted detailed seismic assessment results for the Central Library Building under new legislation which came into effect in July 2017. This has identified the library building as an earthquake-prone building’ (EPB), with a rating of 20-25% of New Building Standard.Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:55:00 +0100voxy-3d3fc10e30974e8259addf58248874ad20181212005500http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/328355The newly-opened National Geohazards Monitoring Centre will lead to a safer and more resilient New Zealand, according to its hosts, GNS Science. The Centre was officially opened this morning by Hon Dr Megan Woods, Minister of Research, Science and Innovation, and Hon Kris Faafoi, Civil Defence Minister.Tue, 11 Dec 2018 23:43:00 +0100voxy-27b598a02e01b9dee3af48a89d79fb5f20181211234300https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181211133317.htmThe study published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America concludes that the hazard assessments do well at predicting damaging ground motion in key Javanese cities, but that there is much more to learn about earthquake sources in the region. Indonesia has made earthquake risk prediction a priority after the magnitude 9.Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:10:00 +0100sciencedaily-9e55d277683a96a94bdab5216cc477d820181211211000