1320 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.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-18/earthquake-hits-salt-lake-city-areaA magnitude 5.7 earthquake was reported Wednesday morning at 6:09 a.m. Pacific time in Magna, Utah, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake occurred less than a mile from Salt Lake City. In the last 10 days, there have been no earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby.Thu, 19 Mar 2020 00:27:00 +0100google-top-stories-innovatie-360b97eb0cc9c3797222e3d37ca161b120200319002700https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/chinese-language-course-finds-no-takers-in-bengaluru/articleshow/74484688.cms(CGL) at Bengaluru Central University . When a massive earthquake and a tsunami hit Japan in 2011 crippling the country’s economy, the CGL saw a massive dip in for learning Japanese. Now, history seems to be repeating itself; this time it’s the Chinese language.Thu, 05 Mar 2020 02:45:00 +0100timesofindia-6975c0e8446ae01cea13891e8d8fbb1120200305024500https://interestingengineering.com/13-disasters-that-might-threaten-the-world-in-2020?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=article&utm_content=280220203. Lake Toba supervolcano is also a sleeping giant Source: Klim Levene/Flickr Yellowstone is not the only sleeping giant volcano on the planet. Lake Toba in Indonesia also sits on top of an enormous supervolcano. It last erupted about 74-75 thousand years ago and was so devastating that it is believed to have almost made humans extinct .Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:26:00 +0100interestingengineering-6ea7a65c76e90460e00a3c57e85b946020200228182600https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/02/27/On-This-Day-88-magnitude-earthquake-kills-more-than-500-in-Chile/4761582644638/In 1933, it was announced that President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt would use a 263-year-old tattered Dutch Bible that had been in the possession of his family since 1670 for his inauguration on March 4. In 1942, opening salvos were fired in the Battle of the Java Sea, during which 11....Thu, 27 Feb 2020 10:11:00 +0100upi-ab451b7bd40635b0a72b58e0c12f6a1c20200227101100