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.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/larry-williams-drive/audio/ian-simpson-new-geohazards-centre-a-world-first/From volcanoes to earthquakes and even tsunamis, we can now monitor geohazards around the clock. A new monitoring centre is up and running in Lower Hutt and will be manned 24/7. The previous system would alert an on-call scientist, however there could have been asleep at the time.Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:04:00 +0100newstalkzb-559050e33b540855cc16312f9951e3a120181212070400http://www.eurasiareview.com/12122018-historic-earthquakes-test-indonesias-seismic-hazard-assessment/The 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.Wed, 12 Dec 2018 06:21:00 +0100eurasiareview-68a3e1124e4a676b05175375a6f4631720181212062100http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/328420The NZ Transport Agency is making permanent the speed reductions near KaikÅura put in place a year ago, when State Highway 1 reopened following the November 2016 earthquake. "Following consultation with the community, we have decided to continue these speed limit reductions and extend some areas....Wed, 12 Dec 2018 06:05:00 +0100voxy-3a93f83fd99374cf95b6bb1007a38c4e20181212060500http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/328417GeoNet helps power the state-of-the-art National Geohazards Monitoring Centre which opened today at GNS Science’s Avalon campus. The new centre shows what can be achieved when government agencies work together, says EQC’s Director of Resilience Research Dr Hugh Cowan, who attended the opening.Wed, 12 Dec 2018 06:05:00 +0100voxy-720023dc5ca5f87ef2ce59a511420cd220181212060500