820 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.nan.ng/environment-2/5-9-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-russias-island/Earthquake. A 5.9 magnitude earthquake has been raegistered off the coast of Russia’s Kuril Islands, the Sakhalin branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GS RAS) told Sputnik. The epicentre of the aftershocks was located at 41.9 degrees north latitude and 147.Sat, 02 Mar 2019 08:40:00 +0100nan-3a5c343dbd949b3bd3a7159b14b60c3720190302084000https://phys.org/wire-news/312620366/tsu-is-creating-mathematical-models-for-suppressing-tsunami-wave.html#ajTabsMechanism for suppressing tsunami waves by underwater obstacles. Credit: Tomsk State University Konstantin Zhiltsov, a researcher at the TSU Research Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, with colleagues from the Institute of Applied Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is....Fri, 01 Mar 2019 01:18:00 +0100phys-965c2e305018a949185edaa56e9bf35820190301011800https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2019/02/27/On-This-Day-Pope-Benedict-gives-final-general-audience/5691551197074/In 1933, it was announced that President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt would use a 263-year-old tattered Dutch Bible that had been in the possession of his family since 1670 for his inauguration on March 4. In 1942, opening salvos were fired in the Battle of the Java Sea, during which 11....Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:08:00 +0100upi-96ad82e812b81f8faec1c44d4b442c3c20190227090800https://www.eng.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/46308/An earthquake of magnitude of 3.4 points has been registered today at three kilometres from the village of Dylym, Kazbek District. No information about the victims and destructions was reported. According to seismologists, the earthquake occurred at 5:40 a.m. Moscow time at the depth of 10 kilometres.Tue, 26 Feb 2019 11:28:00 +0100kavkaz-uzel-bedaa1e121a0491e07dd7f3cc2a611e020190226112800