7520 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.earth.com/news/asteroid-dinosaurs-global-tsunami/Beneath Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula lies a 111 mile-wide crater called the that was formed after a giant asteroid collided with Earth 65 million years ago. The aftermath of the collision included a nearly mile-high global tsunami and brought about the extinction of the dinosaurs and nearly three-quarters of all life on Earth.Wed, 09 Jan 2019 00:13:00 +0100earth-ff8aa1a85ed9d563ed57f8ef82f1051520190109001300https://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.semana.comFRONTERA | 2019/01/07 por Julio Borges. Reiterarmos a los presidentes de toda América que Venezuela es un Estado fallido y un gran peligro para toda la región. Hacemos un llamado al presidente de México y al jefe del Gobierno Español a que no sean indiferentes o ingenuos con Venezuela y, por el....Tue, 08 Jan 2019 05:11:00 +0100semana-211ade237153cdac63dc595e085bdcdc20190108051100https://www.jornada.com.mx/2019/01/07/capital/024n2cap?partner=rssA más de un año del terremoto del 19 de septiembre de 2017, aún quedan pendientes de ser intervenidas 244 escuelas que resultaron con algún daño en Ciudad de México, de las cuales, al gobierno capitalino le corresponde rehabilitar 80 planteles, tarea que prevé concluir en el transcurso de este año,....Mon, 07 Jan 2019 11:01:00 +0100jornada-eb4b9808be2b49b621a21904c57497c520190107110100