22740 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.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/02/23/a-long-term-natural-experiment-hints-at-how-species-disperseT HAT SPECIES might spread overseas by hitching lifts on floating vegetation is an idea going back to Charles Darwin. It is a plausible thought, but hard to test. A test of sorts has, however, been made possible by the tsunami that struck the Pacific coast of Japan in 2011, in the wake of a submarine earthquake.Fri, 22 Feb 2019 04:34:00 +0100economist-a067e25814412fa91dc9b975226924a320190222043400https://elmercurio.com.mx/internacional/sismo-magnitud-5-7-sacude-japonUn fuerte sismo de magnitud 5.7 sacudió este jueves la ciudad de Atsuma en la región oriental de Iburi en Hokkaido, Japón, la misma que fue golpeada por un gran terremoto de magnitud 6.6 en septiembre pasado. El movimiento telúrico no representa un riesgo de tsunami, dijo la Agencia Meteorológica. Hokkaido Electric Power Co.Fri, 22 Feb 2019 04:30:00 +0100diarioelmercurio-6f13c9c240fbd05c4b25dfb7f0e6328e20190222043000https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/japan-5-8-magnitude-quake-hits-hokkaido-119022200095_1.htmlAn earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale struck Japan's northern island of on Thursday (local time). According to the NHK, the quake occurred in the central part of the island on Thursday night at a depth of 33 kilometres. No casualties have been reported so far. The authorities are assessing the damage caused by the tremors.Fri, 22 Feb 2019 02:04:00 +0100business-standard-72d459d2d74b62b9dd9343ed4077291d20190222020400https://elcomercio.pe/lima/personajes/julio-kuroiwa-vida-dedicada-estudiar-prevenir-desastres-naturales-noticia-ecpm-609884En 1961, tras haberse graduado como ingeniero civil de la Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI), viajó a Japón para seguir cursos de sismología en el Instituto Muto. En 1966 viajó al Instituto de California donde recibió clases de George Housner y Charles Richter.Fri, 22 Feb 2019 00:09:00 +0100ElComercio-e1028217a33a3b21ea55bda202dddd4720190222000900