17530 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.futurity.org/tsunami-warning-sensors-1961732/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 eight feet. Minutes later, residents began receiving tsunami warnings through broadcast media, mobile phones, and sirens.Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:54:00 +0100futurity-7f3bc06e3432fb2b4f75b74605893b6d20190122155400https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2183175/greenpeace-slams-japans-plan-dump-radioactive-fukushima-waterGreenpeace has slammed a plan by the Japanese government and an electric utility company to release into the ocean highly radioactive water from the tsunami-devastated Fukushima Daiichi power plant , saying in a new report the decision was “driven by short-term cost-cutting”.Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:25:00 +0100scmp-3ef94cdf09e259a462ad733ded38a7a820190122122500https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8249873/indonesia-earthequake-ring-of-fire-island-disaster/AN earthquake has hit Indonesia as the Ring of Fire island suffers its SECOND disaster in two months. The quake was 6.6 on the Richter scale when it struck the city of Raba on Sumbawa, this morning. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage on the nation's most central island, the US Geological Survey (USGS) confirmed.Tue, 22 Jan 2019 09:28:00 +0100thesun-ef9e572e40c63b1f1bba3730c13f92f920190122092800https://elevenmyanmar.com/news/famous-dogs-on-the-internet-with-millions-of-social-media-followers-asianewsnetwork(Straits Times/ANN) -- You might have seen his pictures online and squealed over his cuteness. You might also have spent a good amount of time watching videos of him frolicking about. But you won't be able to do so anymore. News of Boo the pomeranian's death broke hearts around the world last Saturday (Jan 19).Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:39:00 +0100elevenmyanmar-c3ae55ee23e2049283ae4a509f8335b020190121113900