187150GDACS 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 PH structures should be climate smart, disaster resilienthttps://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1068122MANILA All structures in the country must be able to withstand natural calamities such as strong typhoons and earthquakes. “Based on one of the priority areas of the National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP), an infrastructure has to be climate smart and disaster resilient in order to save lives.Thu, 25 Apr 2019 04:32:00 +0200pna-ce0a78ff05feab6ef8a9781cc65ca45d20190425043200Preparing for the Big Onehttps://www.manilatimes.net/preparing-for-the-big-one-2/545069/FELINO A. PALAFOX, JR. THERE is no escaping natural disasters, but we can do everything in our power to safeguard human life. A 6.1-magnitude earthquake surprised everyone when it struck Pampanga and shook areas of Luzon and Metro Manila last Monday; then another earthquake hit Samar last Tuesday afternoon.Wed, 24 Apr 2019 18:12:00 +0200manilatimes-4adb55cad6e2cc896b87321a84cc23a020190424181200Aftershocks still felt in quake-hit Luzon areas; Clark Airport resumes operationshttps://www.bworldonline.com/aftershocks-still-felt-in-quake-hit-luzon-areas-clark-airport-resumes-operations/A MAGNITUDE 4.5 aftershock shook parts of Luzon early Wednesday morning as people were still reeling from the 6.1 earthquake that struck on Monday. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology’s (Phivolcs) monitoring showed the aftershock’s epicenter at 15 kilometers northeast of....Wed, 24 Apr 2019 15:08:00 +0200bworldcom-ae4850fa4e0cb08092c388420f51101720190424150800Remote Sensing, Vol. 11, Pages 978: Planet Image-Based Inventorying and Machine Learning-Based Susceptibility Mapping for the Landslides Triggered by the 2018 Mw6.6 Tomakomai, Japan Earthquakehttps://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/8/978Abstract The 5 September 2018 (UTC time) Mw6.6 earthquake of Tomakomai, Japan has triggered about 10,000 landslides with high density, causing widespread concern. We attempted to establish a detailed inventory of this slope failure and use proper methods to assess landslide susceptibility in the entire affected area.Wed, 24 Apr 2019 12:46:00 +0200mdpi-1b747c17a7d04178dcfd90cb80d7dc5c20190424124600