124120 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://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/view-lockdown-and-covid-woes-then-add-cyclonic-destruction/articleshow/76043140.cmsBy Durba Chattaraj Some places have a deeper acquaintance with cataclysm than others -- the Easter Islands, Ephesus, Pompeii. We know not exactly why. We might know that an earthquake in 262 AD, after a series of other disasters, destroyed Ephesus in modern Turkey to such an extent that people lost....Wed, 27 May 2020 18:08:00 +0200economictimes-30a21239a98b47d73fe8f2b0edf733f220200527180800https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65629-2Soil behavior is studied during the Tohoku earthquake, where abnormally high accelerations > 1 g were recorded. Based on vertical array records, models of soil behavior are constructed at 28 sites in northern Honshu (Tohoku region). They are compared with previously studied models of soil behavior....Wed, 27 May 2020 07:55:00 +0200nature-Earth-and-Environmental-Sciences-0c2f29af5839c4c3006e4463055d1dbd20200527075500https://repeatingislands.com/2020/05/26/why-puerto-ricos-tectonic-setting-makes-earthquakes-inevitable/. Since being severely shaken and damaged in January by a stout M6.4, plus a handful of M5+ temblors , the seismic sequence had settled into a pattern of moderate magnitude quakes, rarely exceeding M4.0 And with the onset of the novel coronavirus, most of the island’s shaken citizens had returned to their homes, hoping the worst was over.Wed, 27 May 2020 06:20:00 +0200repeatingislands-dc367d22870a09067fffd7e79b95204f20200527062000https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/environment/oregon-scientists-develop-a-more-accurate-way-to-date-past-earthquakes/article_1ff682dc-9ee6-11ea-996e-2f1dc8a50933.htmlScientists in Oregon have developed a technique that could lead to more accurate dating of historic earthquakes. The work by researchers at Portland State University and the University of Oregon, published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, offers a solution to a common problem....Wed, 27 May 2020 02:22:00 +0200bendbulletin-008a2e9cc6c589e6782498e7dc1136e020200527022200