25520 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.theepochtimes.com/researcher-says-earths-crust-might-be-peeling-in-two-off-coast-of-portugal_2912678.htmlScientists have discovered that a tectonic plate off Portugal ’s coast might be shearing into two layers. In 1969, an earthquake in the location spawned a tsunami, and 200 years before that, an 8.7 magnitude quake struck the area, destroying the capital city of Lisbon and killing 100,000 people,....Thu, 09 May 2019 00:34:00 +0200theepochtimes-bdbfd0da2c077bc1a16422f2e5a7d7ba20190509003400https://news.yahoo.com/off-coast-portugal-earths-crust-141000930.htmlIn 1969, a giant earthquake off the coast of Portugal kicked up a tsunami that killed over a dozen people. Some 200 years prior, an even larger earthquake hit the same area, killing around 100,000 people and destroying the city of Lisbon.Two earthquakes in the same spot over a couple hundred years is not cause for alarm.Wed, 08 May 2019 16:54:00 +0200news-yahoo-4b1c77ad450448b07924610bacca031920190508165400https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/07/19/fact-check-no-this-is-not-a-genuine-tsunami-warning-issued-for-ph-in-aprilA photo has been shared thousands of times in Facebook posts published on April 27, 2019 alongside a purported “breaking news” tsunami warning following a major earthquake. The claim is false; the photo in the misleading posts shows a storm in Sydney, Australia in 2015; no official tsunami warnings....Tue, 07 May 2019 12:27:00 +0200abs-cbnnews-5c7bf926c9806a8ffad6aa397e2aed6f20190507122700https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/777111/breaking-papua-new-guinea-earthquake-ring-of-fire-usgs-world-latestThe quake struck in the east of the nation in the early hours of Tuesday morning local time (late on Monday night GMT). US Geological Survey officials said the epicentre of the strong tremor was about 79 miles below the surface, in a region some 41 miles southwest of the town of Lae at the eastern edge of the mountainous country.Tue, 07 May 2019 01:46:00 +0200dailystar-7d8627d97086ec0659acbd3daaddac1620190507014600