18830 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.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/christchurch/3-8-earthquake-shakes-christchurch/A 3.8 earthquake has jolted Christchurch this afternoon. GeoNet reports the earthquake was 20 kilometres south-east of Christchurch, at a depth of 7km. M3.8 quake causing light shaking near Christchurch — GeoNet (@geonet) February 7, 2019 The geological incident monitor labelled the quake as 'light'.Thu, 07 Feb 2019 04:54:00 +0100newstalkzb-5ecf99c6bee7db949874491b55bdc82820190207045400https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2019/02/06/1891197/manila-bay-island-building-sink-inland-homes-expertHuge obstacles deter President Rody Duterte’s Great Manila Bay Rehab. Thirty-eight reclamations totaling 26,234 hectares are planned along almost the entire coastline. Environment lawyer Tony Oposa prefers calling the near-shore schemes “tambak” or landfilling. For, those are virtually island constructions for eventual high-rises.Wed, 06 Feb 2019 18:52:00 +0100manilametro-56468599b283c3802a7ca42e39bf10a020190206185200https://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.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-77787178700c776e3628ba90e32f41d020190206152100