18550 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.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/03/16/editorials/beefing-quake-defense/The latest long-term forecast by the government’s Earthquake Research Committee says there is a high probability that a killer earthquake on a scale of magnitude 7 to 8 will occur within the next 30 years along the Japan Trench off the Pacific coast of northeastern Honshu — with the chance of such a....Sat, 16 Mar 2019 10:12:00 +0100japantimes-eff56e00b7abf870698c8131e2da937220190316101200https://montsame.mn/en/read/183154Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/ The Project for ‘Strengthening the National Capacity of Earthquake Disaster Protection and Prevention in Mongolia’ (2016-2020) implemented by National Emergency Management Agency and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) aims at further fostering disaster risk reduction....Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:43:00 +0100montsame-4f87034c0542ec3506308d737ea484e520190315104300https://www.crestonvalleyadvance.ca/news/b-c-first-province-to-allow-12-storey-mass-timber-builds/B.C. will be ahead of the rest of Canada in allowing 12-storey mass timber buildings meaning an increase in jobs in manufacturing and in the woods, Premier John Horgan said. The current building code allows only six-storey mass timber buildings, but the National Building Code is expected to be revised and allow for 12 storeys builds in 2020.Thu, 14 Mar 2019 05:14:00 +0100crestonvalleyadvance-984e67b63f8b68afa0baf05d2f6b188620190314051400https://www.japantimes.co.jp/author/satoshi-sugiyama/Satoshi Sugiyama. For Satoshi Sugiyama's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below: Mar 13, 2019 Google Inc.'s Gmail and Google Drive temporarily experienced service disruptions Wednesday as part of a worldwide outage —including in Japan. The company said at around noon that Gmail users....Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:17:00 +0100japantimes-70654a038980bd9f3dca52fb2214d4ac20190313111700