279390 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.iflscience.com/environment/dinosaurkilling-asteroid-created-a-milehigh-tsunami-that-swept-through-the-worlds-oceans/Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid roughly 14 kilometers (9 miles) in diameter hit the shallow water off the modern-day Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. Chicxulub, as it is known, was the size of a mountain and moving as fast as a speeding bullet. When it hit the water, its top was still higher than airplane cruising altitude.Tue, 08 Jan 2019 16:22:00 +0100iflscience-560f0cc72a2487177ea66b70acc9723420190108162200https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/houston-students-return-to-class-after-alaska-earthquake/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-newsHOUSTON, Alaska (AP) — Students from a middle school in south-central Alaska have returned to class for the first time after the magnitude 7.0 earthquake damaged their school building. More than 700 Houston students were fitted into classrooms inside the high school building and 13 temporary buildings on the campus Monday, KTUU-TV reported .Tue, 08 Jan 2019 15:48:00 +0100seattletimes-997cd7fccb2fc7dea7c16bcb31099b3020190108154800http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/08/c_137729057.htmTOKYO, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 struck off Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture, in the southernmost part of Japan's southwestern Kyushu island, on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said. The JMA revised its preliminary report from magnitude 5.9 to 6.4, minutes after the quake struck.Tue, 08 Jan 2019 15:08:00 +0100xinhuanet_en-d6c4b85740052c8a2b6304ed51dc589f20190108150800https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-japan-earthquake-large-64-13828696An earthquake at an estimated magnitude of 6.4 has struck off the coast of south east Japan. The quake was 39km (24 miles) deep and centred 116 km south southeast of Kagoshima. The earthquake struck at roughly 9.45pm (local time). There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.Tue, 08 Jan 2019 14:38:00 +0100themirror-01dfb4c02b659fb642e737ccdd7a014d20190108143800