193110GDACS 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 Three earthquakes registering over 3.0 magnitude hit Utah in less than 48 hourshttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6715273/Three-earthquakes-registering-3-0-magnitude-hit-Utah-48-hours.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490The Utah Department of Public Safety said Friday's earthquakes were reported by more than 7,000 people in the Salt Lake Valely and Utah Valley area. The University of Utah Seismograph Stations noted that Bluffdale then experienced a 2.4 magnitude aftershock on Saturday night, making it the fourth....Mon, 18 Feb 2019 01:12:00 +0100dailymail-0ec19429264c794fa5557361cd17e24520190218011200Illegal sand mining, soil erosion threaten Sleshmantak foresthttp://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2019-02-17/illegal-sand-mining-soil-erosion-threaten-sleshmantak-forest.htmlFeb 17, 2019- The illegal mining of sand and soil in the eastern and northern parts of Vishwarup Temple, near the Sleshmantak forest, is proving to be a great threat to the area and to its status of being a Unesco World Heritage Site. Illegally extracted sand was being used to build concrete walls....Sun, 17 Feb 2019 04:19:00 +0100kathmandupost-e07350bd5c3dc494513057a8a7cb74fe20190217041900Ben Lowry: Sinn Fein said the Stormont talks were a ‘sham’ but perhaps that defines its own role in themhttps://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion/ben-lowry-sinn-fein-said-the-stormont-talks-were-a-sham-but-perhaps-that-defines-its-own-role-in-them-1-8813505Perhaps, also, the DUP is not particularly determined to see the return of Stormont just now. But the big question, to which very few people know the answer, is whether or not Sinn Fein’s participation in the talks was, to use Mary Lou McDonald’s word again, a ‘sham’.Sat, 16 Feb 2019 11:21:00 +0100newsletter-b307e81e83eab714f0c0a5bae0a9891020190216112100Earthquakes today MAPPED: Utah quake jolts people awake as quakes strike across the world Earthquakes today MAPPED: Utah quake jolts people awake as quakes strike across the world AN EARTHQUAKE in Utah jolted people out of bed on Friday morning and was one of many...https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1087896/Earthquakes-today-mapped-utah-bluffdale-earthquake-history-fault-linesThe magnitude 3.7 struck Utah south of Salt Lake City at 5.09am local time (12.09pm), according to a report from the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The quake struck 2km south of Bluffdale, but there have been no reports of infrastructural damage. It was a fairly low magnitude but it was just powerful enough hitting at 5.Fri, 15 Feb 2019 18:00:00 +0100express-3659609a7740d81123b0a1dda0e9e4ec20190215180000