40440 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 http://www.startribune.com/disabled-workers-help-haitians-who-lost-limbs-in-2010-quake/512511422/He was unable to reach a hospital for seven days and his knee became infected, forcing doctors to amputate most of his leg. Several weeks later, he came to an institution run by Haiti's Episcopal Church in downtown Port-au-Prince where a small group of disabled workers were fitting victims with prosthetics and received his first artificial leg.Wed, 10 Jul 2019 06:18:00 +0200startribune-bcbcbb31b594d18c24d75e028e71d79a20190710061800https://news.yahoo.com/two-big-earthquakes-shook-rural-235229405.htmlAs southern California and that started on July 4 near the town of Ridgecrest and felt as far as Los Angeles and Las Vegas, many were grateful they didn’t strike in more densely-populated areas. “Earthquakes like these are just reminders to not be complacent about them,” Gregory Deierlein, professor....Wed, 10 Jul 2019 06:16:00 +0200news-yahoo-a93c124a8167ba1b3d2b313a5df2094f20190710061600https://www.fijitimes.com/california-expanding-early-quake-detection-and-warning-system/U.S. Geological Survey technician look over cracks along State Route 178 after an earthquake near Ridgecrest, California, U.S. July 6, 2019. REUTERS/Gene Blevins. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California officials are spending more than $40 million on an earthquake early warning system that in addition....Wed, 10 Jul 2019 05:52:00 +0200fijitimes-62923461dcde2b146bd226ce7f8b3e0920190710055200https://www.eltiempo.com/vida/ciencia/la-impresionante-grieta-que-aparecio-tras-los-sismos-en-california-386306Es una grieta en el desierto que se puede ver desde el espacio. Y surgió como consceuencia del terremoto que golpeo a Californiael pasado viernes, el más fuerte en dos décadas. El sismo de magnitud 7,1 sucedió a una profundidad de solo 900 metros, creando una fisura cerca de su epicentro a unos 240 km al noreste de Los Ángeles.Wed, 10 Jul 2019 05:36:00 +0200eltiempo-CO-abfce72dcf45ae8134c61a0c9ec5d29b20190710053600