18350GDACS EMM News Feed 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 DEEP SEA-TED Sightings of rare deep-sea oarfish around Japan stoke fears of impending quake MORE than a dozen sightings of giant sea serpents in waters around Japan have sparked fears that an earthquake could strike the country soon. Spotting the rare deep-sea oarfish species is the signal for an impending quake, according to Japanese folklore.https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8396405/sightings-rare-oarfish-japan-fears-earthquake/MORE than a dozen sightings of giant sea serpents in waters around Japan have sparked fears that an earthquake could strike the country soon. Spotting the rare deep-sea oarfish species is the signal for an impending quake, according to Japanese folklore.Sun, 10 Feb 2019 17:08:00 +0100thesun-747e0a949b351006e5532807d1548574201902101708005.2 quake strikes Iran’s Qeshm Islandhttps://en.mehrnews.com/news/142384/5-2-quake-strikes-Iran-s-Qeshm-IslandTEHRAN, Feb. 10 (MNA) – An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale hit Laft village, in the Central District of Qeshm Island, southern Iran, on Sunday. According to the Seismological Center of the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University, the earthquake struck Laft at the depth of 10 km at 14:24 local time (10:54 GMT).Sun, 10 Feb 2019 15:21:00 +0100mehrnews-en-d88a6b4dd8f0ffe11ed505e6e519388320190210152100"En riesgo volcánico no se pueden esconder las cosas en gavetas"http://eldia.es/2019-02-10/canarias/11--riesgo-volcanico-pueden-esconder-cosas-gavetas.htmEn el último mes, la actividad sísmica, especialmente en Tenerife, ha sido numerosa. Luca: Para un volcán activo como el que hay en Tenerife, es normal que haya una sismicidad de fondo continua con decenas de micro terremotos diarios, con una magnitud menor a uno.Sun, 10 Feb 2019 07:40:00 +0100eldia-4859f868a2a3f5b60028ace507bb69c3201902100740008:30 Desastres naturales: El reto de salvar vidashttps://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?o=rn&id=251436&SEO=desastres-naturales-el-reto-de-salvar-vidasLa cifra de decesos se situó como la sexta más baja en lo que va de siglo, lejos de la media de 77 mil muertos, resultado de la inexistencia de catástrofes de enormes proporciones, de acuerdo con la Oficina para la Reducción de Riesgos de Desastres de Naciones Unidas (Unisdr).Sat, 09 Feb 2019 14:48:00 +0100prensa-latina-2a8f2de86f4ed313ac728c401ef0b59e20190209144800