267100 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.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/quarry-firm-apologises-residents-over-4443081The company which runs Croft Quarry - the source of a huge explosion mistaken for an earthquake yesterday - has said more explosions are likely to be heard in the area this week. Aggregate Industries told LeicestershireLive that three more controlled blasts would be taking place this week.Thu, 20 Aug 2020 17:08:00 +0200leicestermercury-1137b9225c22c3316ddf43697187477920200820170800http://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Code=155703Anchor: South Korean quarantine authorities said there were 288 new cases of COVID-19 as of midnight Thursday, raising the accumulated total to 16-thousand-346 amid a continued spread of clusters mostly in the Seoul metropolitan area. With the daily increase in the triple digits for the seventh....Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:09:00 +0200kbs-en-990b30dd01fe9d7b1588d6f248cce39120200820090900https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8645403/Weather-experts-reveal-tsunami-danger-zone-map-Australia-not-good-WA.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490A terrifying map has revealed which areas in Australia are at most risk of being in the firing line of a tsunami. Scientists and weather experts discussed the tsunami hazards for Australia in a Bureau of Meteorology online webinar on Tuesday to coincide with National Science Week.Thu, 20 Aug 2020 06:42:00 +0200dailymail-986388d1c47289c51f088e615fa3a47920200820064200https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/earthquake-in-andaman-and-nicobar-island-today-with-magnitude-4-7-earthquake-in-india-2282222Portblair: An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 was reported near Port Blair in Andaman and Nicobar islands on Thursday morning, according to India's National Center for Seismology. The epicentre of the earthquake was 222 km south (S) of Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar islands, India, the agency said.Thu, 20 Aug 2020 02:04:00 +0200ndtvnews-5bd3f8d890b69d52f28fd707910c7fda20200820020400