263520 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.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/gcfs-rur090419.phpIn newly published research, an international team of geologists, geophysicists, and mathematicians show how coupled computer models can accurately recreate the conditions leading to the world's deadliest natural disasters of 2018, the Palu earthquake and tsunami, which struck western Sulawesi, Indonesia in September last year.Thu, 05 Sep 2019 15:49:00 +0200eurekalert-83f1c85bc36657f0fe0159f0113607c320190905154900https://ec.europa.eu/echo/what/civil-protection/mechanism_enThe overall objective of the EU Civil Protection Mechanism is to strengthen cooperation between the EU Member States and 6 Participating States in the field of civil protection, with a view to improving prevention, preparedness and response to disasters.Thu, 05 Sep 2019 04:27:00 +0200EC-897a45c89d93d44402f81513a5661bde20190905042700https://www.aljazeera.com/profile/wayne-hay.html. "Wayne Hay has been covering the Asia/Pacific region since 2001, first with Television New Zealand before joining Al Jazeera English in 2006. In his role at Al Jazeera, he has travelled the region extensively, reporting on everything from elections and natural disasters to surfing in Bali.Wed, 04 Sep 2019 16:55:00 +0200aljazeera-en-aeeaab2892fa014419a612f043507f4020190904165500https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1886381/new-pulse-emitting-device-find-disaster-victimsThree Indonesian university students have invented a device that uses high-frequency signals to help locate victims after a natural disaster. It's the size of a credit card and about as slim, but it just might save your life after an earthquake. According to Reuters, the tool dubbed "Deoterions,"....Wed, 04 Sep 2019 09:16:00 +0200aawsat-c91ba4dae1833591f59f8f49ef23f17420190904091600