113140 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.haaretz.com/world-news/major-earthquake-strikes-indonesia-after-volcanic-eruption-1.6747129Read more: Indonesia Earthquake Liquefied the Ground, How Did That Happen? Mount Soputan, located on the northern part of Sulawesi island, erupted twice Sunday morning, said the national disaster agency’s spokesman, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. He said in anticipation of hot ash and lava sliding down the....Sun, 16 Dec 2018 12:38:00 +0100haaretz-6f8d27c282e4631f4e3fb522d9e9c19420181216123800https://larepublica.pe/mundo/1376631-terremoto-chile-sismo-51-sacude-region-tarapacaEl Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceanográfico de la Armada de Chile aseguró que las características del sismo no reúnen las condiciones para generar un tsunami. Un temblor de 5,1 grados Richter de magnitud sacudió hoy la región de Tarapacá, en el norte de Chile, sin que hasta ahora las autoridades hayan informado de víctimas o daños de consideración.Sat, 15 Dec 2018 20:13:00 +0100larepublica-pe-c0a6eb5e440463eacc8b7267202ba69f20181215201300https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6495315/Japan-selects-Chinese-disaster-character-symbol-2018-following-natural-disasters.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490has selected the Chinese character for 'disaster' as its defining symbol for 2018, a year that saw the country hit by deadly floods, earthquakes and storms. Japanese TV stations broadcast the annual announcement, with Seihan Mori, master of the ancient Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto, writing the....Fri, 14 Dec 2018 14:54:00 +0100dailymail-c93fa6b8e5eb22c4a0cce3d9f79ebb1c20181214145400https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/8/12/487Abstract We performed interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) analyses to observe ground displacements and assess damage after the M 6.6 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake in northern Japan on 6 September 2018. A multitemporal SAR coherence map is extracted from 3-m resolution ascending....Fri, 14 Dec 2018 12:35:00 +0100mdpi-247dcd786ee1766b32d341e053b1a94920181214123500