197250 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://vietnamnews.vn/society/534671/small-earthquake-occurs-in-dien-bien.htmlĐIỆN BIÊN — An earthquake measuring 3.3 on the Richter scale hit the northern province of Điện Biên on Tuesday afternoon but caused no damage. The quake struck at 4:27pm in Nậm Kè Commune, Mường Nhé District, said Nguyễn Thái Sơn, head of the Điện Biên Phủ Seismic Observation Station. People in Nậm Kè and neighbouring communes felt slight tremors.Wed, 28 Aug 2019 11:53:00 +0200vietnamnews-c97161d3167130d30674313d6db8a37020190828115300https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49008-0Global risk. Our analysis indicates that each year, 1.5 million people, predominantly living in the Alpine-Himalayan belt, the Malay Archipelago, Central America, and northern South America, are at risk of earthquake impacts (Fig. 1 ). Of these, between 19.9% and 41.Wed, 28 Aug 2019 11:11:00 +0200nature-Earth-and-Environmental-Sciences-29541a5ca016ed3efc129ac168b338cc20190828111100https://www.japantimes.co.jp/weatherPrefectures in southwestern Japan were hit by heavy downpours Wednesday morning, with the Meteorological Agency issuing the maximum level of warning for landslides and flooding. The special warnings cover Fukuoka, Saga and Nagasaki prefectures in northern Kyushu, the agency said, forecasting r...Wed, 28 Aug 2019 04:11:00 +0200japantimes-ab409b300a4ede19904f8e62d340e9fe20190828041100https://www.thenational.ae/business/energy/earthquake-forces-temporary-halt-to-uk-shale-gas-drilling-site-1.903298Fracking was temporarily suspended at the UK’s only active shale gas site after a 2.9 magnitude earthquake was detected on Sunday. The tremor near Blackpool, in northern England, is the third recorded in less than a week and by far the largest related to the drilling practice.Tue, 27 Aug 2019 14:54:00 +0200thenational-150a1a03cb99fad64032dd6c7b8538bc20190827145400