453100 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.mdpi.com/2076-3417/9/17/3497Abstract The resilience of cities has received worldwide attention. An accurate and rapid assessment of seismic damage, economic loss, and post-event repair time can provide an important reference for emergency rescue and post-earthquake recovery. Based on city-scale nonlinear time-history analysis....Sat, 24 Aug 2019 11:12:00 +0200mdpi-9d563ec2acbb76a4c7866207151c476020190824111200https://www.atlantico.fr/decryptage/3578004/arrete-de-l-enquete-dans-les-maternites-de-fukushima--un-non-lieu-sanitaire-pour-le-nucleaire--guillaume-bucherAtlantico : Pourquoi mettre un terme à une telle enquête ? Quels en sont les résultats ? Guillaume Bucher : Il faut commencer par revenir sur ce qu’est cette « enquête ». Le 11 mars 2011, le Japon a été touché par un séisme d’une magnitude extrêmement élevée.Sat, 24 Aug 2019 11:03:00 +0200atlantico-9f260267e2b404763b07be591140945e20190824110300https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/12/17/2712Abstract The present paper deals with an improvement of the strengthening technique consisting in the combined use of strapsmade of stainless steel ribbonsand CFRP (Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer) strips, to increase the out-of-plane ultimate load of masonry walls.Sat, 24 Aug 2019 09:41:00 +0200mdpi-add7bfba87455ddd3399c49ed98cc38620190824094100https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/17/1999Abstract On 28 September 2018, an Mw 7.4 earthquake, followed by a tsunami, struck central Sulawesi, Indonesia. It resulted in serious damage to central Sulawesi, especially in the Palu area. Two descending paths of the Advanced Land Observation Satellite 2 (ALOS-2) synthetic aperture radar (SAR)....Sat, 24 Aug 2019 09:41:00 +0200mdpi-e032ae1d45ce762800c660756d4085c420190824094100