288650 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://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.Wed, 16 Oct 2019 05:12:00 +0200EC-11371368649145d6e132b26fbcec888d20191016051200https://www.elmostrador.cl/braga/2019/10/15/es-crucial-ante-el-cambio-climatico-que-tengamos-un-entrenamiento-con-perspectiva-de-genero/Las relaciones sociales, la seguridad humana, de género y ambiental, la adaptación y la resiliencia a los desastres asociados con el cambio climático y la vulnerabilidad social y ambiental. Estos son los temas de investigación de Úrsula Oswald, profesora del Centro Regional de Investigaciones....Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:58:00 +0200elmostrado-9588a0f8d2a059c7ef50461f6bba2ba620191015205800https://en.unesco.org/news/international-symposium-lessons-learnt-2018-tsunamis-palu-and-sunda-straitIndonesia was hit by two destructive tsunamis in late 2018 - the first event was the Palu and Donggala tsunami of 28 September 2018 following the 7.5 magnitude earthquake in Central Sulawesi that killed about 1252 people. The second was the Sunda Strait tsunami of 22 December 2018 following an....Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:08:00 +0200unesco-0b97e5dfa7c5cd135200956b720a0bc720191015180800https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2019/10/530022/57-magnitude-earthquake-jolts-sumatraKUALA LUMPUR: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 on the Richter scale struck South Sumatra province in Sumatra, Indonesia at 6.23am (5.23am local time) today. There are no immediate reports of major damage or casualties. In a statement, the Malaysian Meteorological Department said the quake....Tue, 15 Oct 2019 03:42:00 +0200nst-63d828e3fc0e22ed27af7a968071cc4720191015034200