17710 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://en.trend.az/casia/turkmenistan/3007765.htmlAshgabat, Turkmenistan, Jan. 19. By Huseyn Hasanov – Trend: Turkmenistan’s Academy of Sciences, in partnership with ministries and state agencies is drafting a seismic risk reduction program, Trend reports citing the Turkmenistan TV channel. The work on “The Project for Improvement of the Earthquake....Sat, 19 Jan 2019 11:20:00 +0100trendnews-az-b02745352f53c89a3ab17483b6c2ec4e20190119112000https://japantoday.com/category/national/tsunami-hit-town-demolishes-old-office-despite-preservation-callsWork began in northeastern Japan on Saturday to tear down a former town hall building where dozens of people died in a tsunami in 2011, despite calls from some residents to preserve it as a memorial. The demolition of the two-story building in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, came after the Morioka....Sat, 19 Jan 2019 09:03:00 +0100japantoday-c7c51e77054350a945deb971c10b0b5120190119090300https://news.stanford.edu/2019/01/18/qa-designing-better-local-tsunami-warning-system/On a Friday afternoon in the spring of 2011, the Tōhoku-Oki earthquake shook northeastern Japan for six minutes and shifted the country’s main island by 8 feet. Minutes later, residents began receiving tsunami warnings through broadcast media, mobile phones and sirens.Fri, 18 Jan 2019 21:55:00 +0100stanford-37eb44b1dfe2ab8019aacaebb9a5466620190118215500https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8227542/tokyo-earthquake-what-was-the-magnitude-was-anyone-hurt-and-is-it-safe-to-travel-there-now/The quake struck at around 9.50pm local time Was anyone hurt? It is unclear if anyone was hurt in the immediate hours after the earthquake, but many reported that they felt it. A CNN reporter tweeted: "We felt just a minor earthquake right now. "Japanese meteorological agency says it was a 5.3 inland quake.Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:01:00 +0100thesun-6bb80892ee0c4423d0822c69858b4b2420190118170100