6920 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.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-north-carolina-earthquake-shakes-22492911A powerful earthquake has hit the US East Coast in what is believed to be the biggest tremor in North Carolina for more than 100 years. The epicentre of the 5.1 magnitude quake was in Sparta, but aftershocks were felt as far as 150 miles away. Richter scale results showed the earth shaking moment struck at 8am, local – while the 5.Sun, 09 Aug 2020 17:14:00 +0200dailystar-1991593ac6555a905967dfae787db27d20200809171400https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/on-friday-two-odisha-villages-will-be-first-in-the-country-to-get-tsunami-ready-certificate/story-Ph0LJQ7OewiYey0NDrOhlL.htmlMore than 15 years after one of the devastating Tsunamis of history killed over 10,000 people in southern India, two coastal villages of Odisha would be declared ‘Tsunami-Ready’, the first in India as well as the Indian ocean region. Officials of Odisha State Disaster Management Authority, the state....Thu, 06 Aug 2020 18:08:00 +0200HindustanTimes-7c5caa6f7cbbf4ff53bc21da76b5123620200806180800https://reliefweb.int/report/world/natural-disasters-2019Executive Summary. In 2019, 396 natural disasters were recorded in EM-DAT with 11,755 deaths, 95 million people affected and 103 billion US$1 in economic losses across the world. The burden was not shared equally as Asia suffered the highest impact and accounted for 40% of disaster events, 45% of deaths and 74% of the total affected.Wed, 05 Aug 2020 15:36:00 +0200reliefWeb-4cd12292369a529db3ebfe54616eaa4b20200805153600https://www.dailyadvertiser.com.au/story/6864641/small-earthquake-shakes-barellan-near-midnight/?cs=9402A 2.5-magnitude earthquake sent tremors through the town of Barellan near midnight yesterday. The quake was recorded about 11.30pm on Tuesday with a depth of 10 kilometres. Senior seismologist at Geoscience Australia Hadi Ghasemi said it was a very small earthquake, but could still be felt by residents close to the epicentre.Wed, 05 Aug 2020 03:04:00 +0200dailyadvertiser-a5324e4f88e88871244ebcebc37dcef320200805030400