17520 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.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth-sciences/dark-fiber-lays-groundwork-for-long-distance-earthquake-detection-and-groundwater-mapping.htmlAccording to Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab's Earth and Environmental Sciences Area who led the study, there are approximately 10 million kilometers of fiber-optic cable around the world, and about 10 percent of that consists of dark fiber.Wed, 06 Feb 2019 17:21:00 +0100innovations-report-e997cdb6b08ce7473974642bb12b99a920190206172100https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/05/terrawatch-slow-earthquake-turkey-took-50-days-to-shake-outI t was a magnitude 5.8 earthquake, but nobody felt it. That’s because this quake took about 50 days to shake itself out. Occurring a few kilometres south of Istanbul, this “slow earthquake”, which took place during summer 2016, could be a sign that the dangerous is reawakening.Wed, 06 Feb 2019 15:57:00 +0100guardian-8a0629339c8f1c7037782ab979f4bda020190206155700https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinandrews/2019/02/06/mermaids-spy-huge-umbrella-shaped-heat-source-beneath-the-galapagos/MERMAIDs have taken a snapshot of a rather sizeable, deep superheated umbrella hiding beneath the Galápagos. That’s worth it alone just for the fun headline, but the science behind this story is pretty neat too, so let’s dig in. The Galápagos, those wondrous wildlife enclaves that....Wed, 06 Feb 2019 15:21:00 +0100forbes-77787178700c776e3628ba90e32f41d020190206152100https://knowridge.com/2019/02/dark-fiber-lays-groundwork-for-long-distance-earthquake-detection-and-groundwater-mapping/Berkeley Lab researchers capture a detailed picture of how earthquakes travel through the Earth’s subsurface. In traditional seismology, researchers studying how the earth moves in the moments before, during, and after an earthquake rely on sensors that cost tens of thousands of dollars to make and install underground.Wed, 06 Feb 2019 13:53:00 +0100knowridge-9f4e92d1b3b179cbe831fb1d8e14037720190206135300