504310GDACS EMM News Feed 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 samoa 4.9 magnitude earthquake rattles Samoa By Adel Fruean, 14/09/2019https://www.samoaobserver.ws/category/samoa/49457A 4.9 magnitude earthquake rattled many Samoans who were inside their homes and offices on Saturday morning. The tremor was reportedly felt right across the country and it lasted less than a minute. According to the Samoa Meteorological Service's Facebook page, the earthquake was confirmed but....Sat, 14 Sep 2019 09:43:00 +0200samoaobserver-46bdde1403e8bbfb8434c17e4d135ec420190914094300Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 3860: Tertiary Waves Measured during 2017 Pohang Earthquake Using an Underwater Gliderhttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/9/18/3860An underwater glider equipped with a hydrophone observed the acoustic sounds of an earthquake that occurred on 15 November 2017 05:29:32 (UTC) in the Pohang area. The underwater glider observed the earthquake sounds after 19 s (05:29:51) at approximately 140 km from the Pohang epicenter.Sat, 14 Sep 2019 09:17:00 +0200mdpi-f31d2fa88fd6cde250ed17d8e1462e9e20190914091700Chiba Prefecture zoo, affected by typhoon, reopens after members of public offer helphttps://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/14/national/politics-diplomacy/chiba-prefecture-zoo-affected-typhoon-reopens-members-public-offer-help/CHIBA – A zoo near Tokyo, struggling to provide water for its animals amid a prolonged power outage due to a typhoon earlier this week, resumed reopened Saturday, encouraged by a wave of moral and material support from the public. Ichihara Elephant Kingdom, a public zoo in Ichihara, Chiba....Sat, 14 Sep 2019 09:06:00 +0200japantimes-c387c1bc600be4ceda0f114a326b934f20190914090600Japanese cities from Kobe to Sendai compete to host panda from Chinahttps://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/14/national/japanese-cities-kobe-sendai-compete-host-panda-china/MITO, IBARAKI PREF. – Cities in Japan, from Kansai to northern Tohoku, are vying to host at their zoos a giant panda to be loaned from China amid improving relations between the two nations. A broad agreement for the panda lease was reached by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing last October.Sat, 14 Sep 2019 08:19:00 +0200japantimes-8c35d015e7baf48be53fd76febf3acf520190914081900