600 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.zmescience.com/science/it-never-happened-before-all-50-states-in-the-us-are-simultaneously-under-disaster-declaration/The coronavirus has quickly expanded in the United States over the past few weeks, with more than 530,000 confirmed cases and 20,000 deaths so far, putting the country’s health system and economy under unprecedented strain. Credit White House. President Donald Trump has already signed a major....Mon, 13 Apr 2020 15:49:00 +0200zmescience-bb8a779a8f2f80ec0fe5817ed2acc67a20200413154900https://qz.com/1836569/what-is-a-major-disaster-declaration/Every US state is under a federal disaster declaration for the first time in history, after US president Donald Trump yesterday (April 11). With the US Virgin Islands, the Northern Marina Islands, Washington DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico also covered by a major disaster declaration, American Samoa is....Sun, 12 Apr 2020 18:26:00 +0200qz-266b0de72401790b27965e3fad1f9f1320200412182600https://qz.com/1836569/what-is-a-major-disaster-declaration/Every US state is under a federal disaster declaration for the first time in history, after US president Donald Trump yesterday (April 11). With the US Virgin Islands, the Northern Marina Islands, Washington DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico also covered by a major disaster declaration, American Samoa is....Sun, 12 Apr 2020 17:41:00 +0200qz-82491e13556f3d8dc352b84986f2354420200412174100https://www.laprensa.com.ni/2020/03/24/internacionales/2655278-terremoto-de-7-8-grados-de-magnitud-estremece-las-islas-kuriles-de-rusia. Los residentes de Severo-Kurilsk, ubicado en el norte de las islas Kuriles, están siendo evacuados a un lugar seguro después de que el sismo provocara una alerta de tsunami. Un terremoto de 7.8 grados de magnitud sacudió este martes el sur sureste de Severo, en las Islas Kuriles de Rusia, la....Wed, 25 Mar 2020 06:44:00 +0100laprensa-144a498568b5ca98087e3af23fcd96ea20200325064400