341420 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://patch.com/california/los-angeles/earthquake-shakes-los-angeles-regionA quake epicentered south of San Pedro struck Friday afternoon. By A quake epicentered near San Pedro struck Friday afternoon. (Patch Graphic) SAN PEDRO, CA A small earthquake epicentered near San Pedro struck Friday afternoon, rattling commuters at the start of rush hour traffic. The magnitude 3.0 quake struck at 4:20 p.Sat, 07 Dec 2019 02:22:00 +0100patch-a13195e18f606398f755c34c38ef0a1e20191207022200https://www.abc.net.au/radio-australia/programs/am/fashion-giant-settles-with-pacific-community/11776726The French fashion company Dior has reached a confidential agreement with New Caledonia's Kanak population, after it came under fire from Indigenous leaders for using traditional plants in its cosmetics research. The "non" campaign won 56.4 per cent of the vote, but the unexpectedly tight result....Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:03:00 +0100radioaustralianews-fr-c3537a5ea7ea283c2dd276c3e88db5bf20191207000300https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/asoa-moj120219.phpSAN DIEGO, December 6, 2019 -- The release of more than 50 floating sensors, called Mobile Earthquake Recording in Marine Areas by Independent Divers (MERMAIDs), is increasing the number of seismic stations around the planet. Scientists will use the floating array to clarify the picture of the....Fri, 06 Dec 2019 18:57:00 +0100eurekalert-7612ec671de68e9643ae600863a620a820191206185700https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191204113223.htmIn Seismological Research Letters , California Institute of Technology seismologist Zhongwen Zhan describes growing interest in this method -- called Distributed Acoustic Sensing -- and its potential applications. His paper is part of the journal's Emerging Topics series, in which authors are....Fri, 06 Dec 2019 15:33:00 +0100sciencedaily-d12ca3aff2dad9e3aa469ed18227586a20191206153300