4400 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.samoanews.com/opinion/lessons-destabilising-planet-insights-2009-south-pacific-earthquake-tsunami-disasterThe Earth’s crust tore apart, triggering a region-wide tsunami. Within minutes it inundated Samoa’s coastline, before rolling on to American Samoa and Tonga. Read more: Explainer: after an earthquake, how does a tsunami happen? While a tsunami warning was issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning....Fri, 27 Sep 2019 20:13:00 +0200samoanews-2c980f342813e36624d656ca770cb87820190927201300https://foreignaffairs.co.nz/2019/09/27/lessons-for-a-destabilising-planet-insights-from-the-2009-south-pacific-earthquake-tsunami-disaster-124275/– By Dale Dominey-Howes, Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney. Just before 7am on September 29, 2009, a magnitude 8 earthquake struck the sea floor in the central South Pacific, about 190kms south of Samoa. It was exactly the sort of earthquake – in fact, it was two....Fri, 27 Sep 2019 05:06:00 +0200foreignaffairs-nz-cd5bee0100412218f18af7d7b119f00020190927050600https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1183174/chile-earthquake-los-lagos-south-america-ring-of-fire-magnitude-injured-damage-usga-emscThe quake, which occurred at 1.36pm local time, hit some 610 miles from the capital of Santiago, but could be felt in cities such as Osorno, Temuco, Puerto Montt and Ancud. One witness described feeling "dizzy" after the quake hit, while another said it was accompanied by a "long underground noise".Fri, 27 Sep 2019 04:38:00 +0200express-5db8531b0a1a7ab0ba1a372a44c89ec120190927043800https://www.lepopulaire.fr/limoges-87000/actualites/quinze-ans-de-secours-sans-frontieres-pour-les-pompiers-de-l-urgence-internationale_13649085/Voilà 15 ans que, depuis le Limousin, les Pompiers de l'urgence internationale (PUI) interviennent sur tous les fronts où le malheur règne après un tremblement de terre, un ouragan ou toute autre calamité naturelle. Retour en un chiffre, une image et un prénom sur cet engagement. Le chiffre.Thu, 26 Sep 2019 21:09:00 +0200lepopulaire-03758d4ff129ebbf261ae96559bc566320190926210900