34530 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.dailymirror.lk/breaking_news/Earthquake-off-SL-east-coast-no-Tsunami-threat-to-SL-Met-dept/108-182927A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck in the North Indian Ocean, near South east coast of Sri Lanka at about 2.34 am today, the Department of Meteorology announced. However, the department said that there is NO tsunami threat to Sri Lanka at present with the effect of above Earthquake.Wed, 12 Feb 2020 05:16:00 +0100dailymirror-1ce537582dfba1efc4fd1b23fc42ca3220200212051600http://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=60743An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 has been recorded at 2.34 am today in Indian Ocean off South East coast of Sri Lanka, however, there is no tsunami threat to the island, says the Department of Meteorology. Disclaimer: All the comments will be moderated by the AD editorial. Abstain from posting comments that are obscene, defamatory or slanderous.Wed, 12 Feb 2020 02:32:00 +0100adaderana-ebbe0d4d548f2d2c897b7c3144e39dc520200212023200https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/improve-warning-system-to-protect-heritage-sites-from-natural-120021101161_1.htmlOdisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday called upon BIMSTEC countries to improve their early warning dissemination system and capacity building for protection of cultural heritage sites from natural disasters. The heritage sites must be preserved for future generations at any cost because....Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:47:00 +0100business-standard-74711bcae47272547c68472ceb83284220200211134700https://www.rappler.com/world/regions/asia-pacific/251375-earthquake-hits-papua-new-guinea-february-9-2020?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rappler+%28Rappler%29SYDNEY, Australia – A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea on Sunday, February 9, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage. The quake hit just after 4 pm local time (0600 GMT or 2 pm Philippine time) at a depth of 31....Tue, 11 Feb 2020 05:16:00 +0100rappler-519f199dd70f3da5c125c31401a6d72620200211051600