2000 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://reliefweb.int/report/papua-new-guinea/papua-new-guinea-disaster-management-reference-handbook-february-2019Executive Summary. The Independent State of Papua New Guinea, conventionally known as Papua New Guinea (PNG) is located in the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’ making it prone to many natural disasters including cyclones, drought, earthquakes, floods, landslides, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions.Fri, 22 Feb 2019 22:26:00 +0100reliefWeb-b2da4f39db087f39fe6d7f2515fbe1dc20190222222600https://reliefweb.int/report/papua-new-guinea/un-visits-earthquake-affected-papua-new-guinea-village-rebuilt-iom-tool-kitsPort Moresby – UN Resident Coordinator in Papua New Guinea Gianluca Rampolla, together with IOM, UNDP and UNICEF representatives, this week visited Humbra in Southern Highlands province – one of the communities hardest hit by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake in February 2018.Fri, 22 Feb 2019 13:07:00 +0100reliefWeb-e97648402447147f606c31aef519a97b20190222130700https://www.iom.int:443/news/un-visits-earthquake-affected-papua-new-guinea-village-rebuilt-iom-tool-kits-build-back-saferPort Moresby – UN Resident Coordinator in Papua New Guinea Gianluca Rampolla, together with IOM, UNDP and UNICEF representatives, this week visited Humbra in Southern Highlands province – one of the communities hardest hit by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake in February 2018.Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:50:00 +0100iom-edcad4a1d6e6d1aa4cb4bf1e6a2bf83220190222105000https://www.ibtimes.sg/researcher-urges-people-prepare-massive-earthquake-29445Frank Hoogerbeets, a self-proclaimed seismic researcher has been predicting earthquakes for the past couple of years on his website ' Ditrianum '. Interestingly, some of the predictions made by Hoogerbeets turned true, and it has made some section of people believe that the researcher's predictions based on planetary alignments are authentic.Wed, 20 Feb 2019 07:09:00 +0100ibtimes-sg-0f14f0004bb0eb671551c4536c05a6ad20190220070900