18460 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://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/16/coronavirus-latest-updates-china-death-toll-rises.htmlChina's National Health Commission reported that there were 2,009 new confirmed cases and 142 additional deaths as of Feb. 15. That brings the total number of cases in mainland China to 68,500, and the total deaths so far to 1,665, according the latest statistics from the commission released Sunday.Sun, 16 Feb 2020 07:49:00 +0100google-top-stories-dfdb8b9aaaecb72d289f34dc202c7b8820200216074900https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/16/coronavirus-latest-updates-china-death-toll-rises.htmlChina's National Health Commission reported that there were 2,009 new confirmed cases and 142 additional deaths as of Feb. 15. That brings the total number of cases in mainland China to 68,500, and the total deaths so far to 1,665, according the latest statistics from the commission released Sunday.Sun, 16 Feb 2020 07:16:00 +0100google-top-stories-innovatie-dfdb8b9aaaecb72d289f34dc202c7b8820200216071600https://sg.news.yahoo.com/earthquake-experts-lay-latest-outlook-030810234.htmlEarthquake experts say current building codes don’t reflect the riskiest features of the Seattle area’s geology — but the outlook for survivability looks a lot better if the Really Big One can just hold off for a few more years. That’s the bottom line from a session focusing on Seattle’s seismic....Sun, 16 Feb 2020 05:47:00 +0100yahoo-sg-0e7ae0dd678ca7ee2ebc657486829d9d20200216054700https://www.geekwire.com/2020/earthquake-researchers-lay-latest-outlook-really-big-one-thatll-hit-seattle/A color-coded computer simulation from 2016 shows how researchers think tsunami waves propagated from a magnitude-9 Cascadia subduction zone earthquake in the year 1700. Scientists believe such quakes occur every 500 years or so on average. (NOAA / Pacific Tsunami Warning Center) Earthquake experts....Sun, 16 Feb 2020 05:29:00 +0100newsnow-co-uk-d25b40959c18f9248106b7ad2924874f20200216052900