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.cbsnews.com/news/rare-boomerang-earthquake-detected-atlantic-ocean/According to a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience, a team, led by scientists from the University of Southampton and Imperial College London, successfully recorded a magnitude 7.1 earthquake on August 29, 2016. It ran along the Romanche fracture zone, a 560-mile-long fault line under the....Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:59:00 +0200CBSnews-df1d011a088bc31b36f3d150b3c32411CBSnewsen-5.83333 -37.45NaturalDisastersUniversity of SouthamptonStephen Hicks20200811195900https://www.zmescience.com/science/researchers-detect-a-boomerang-earthquake-under-the-atlantic-ocean/Earthquakes usually start small and then extended outwards, causing tremors in and around their path. They may have aftershocks, but after a while, it’s over. But sometimes, earthquakes can go ‘boomerang’, spreading away from the initial rupture and then returning back at higher speeds.Tue, 11 Aug 2020 18:48:00 +0200zmescience-1d4a75d3bd6be417bceb2526d0f00e23zmescienceen-5.83333 -37.45NaturalDisastersJean-Paul Ampuero20200811184800https://www.sciencealert.com/bizarre-boomerang-earthquake-came-back-with-a-vengeance-under-the-atlantic-oceanEarthquakes come and go, often leaving a trail of devastation in their wake. What they don't usually do, thankfully, is turn around immediately and come back for another pass. Except… it looks like they can, in exceedingly rare circumstances. In a new study , scientists have found evidence of an....Tue, 11 Aug 2020 16:03:00 +0200newsnow-co-uk-8b16ff08d75f09c836ef9ef3e91f0002newsnow-co-uken-5.83333 -37.45NaturalDisastersStephen Hicks20200811160300https://www.ibtimes.sg/rare-boomerang-earthquake-deep-under-atlantic-ocean-baffles-scientists-49910Earthquakes generally move in a straight-line pattern and the trail of destruction is visible. While there are aftershocks that often revisit the same location, a bigger-magnitude earthquake never occurs at the same place where it originated. But scientists now believe it can.Tue, 11 Aug 2020 14:24:00 +0200ibtimes-sg-ba68ae29a992e5069aba2801393a5026ibtimes-sgen-5.83333 -37.45NaturalDisastersJean-Paul Ampuero20200811142400https://www.sciencealert.com/bizarre-boomerang-earthquake-came-back-with-a-vengeance-under-the-atlantic-oceanEarthquakes come and go, often leaving a trail of devastation in their wake. What they don't usually do, thankfully, is turn around immediately and come back for another pass. Except… it looks like they can, in exceedingly rare circumstances. In a new study , scientists have found evidence of an....Tue, 11 Aug 2020 12:25:00 +0200google-top-stories-innovatie-8b16ff08d75f09c836ef9ef3e91f0002google-top-stories-innovatieen-5.83333 -37.45NaturalDisastersStephen Hicks20200811122500https://www.sciencealert.com/bizarre-boomerang-earthquake-came-back-with-a-vengeance-under-the-atlantic-oceanEarthquakes come and go, often leaving a trail of devastation in their wake. What they don't usually do, thankfully, is turn around immediately and come back for another pass. Except… it looks like they can, in exceedingly rare circumstances. In a new study , scientists have found evidence of an....Tue, 11 Aug 2020 12:16:00 +0200google-top-stories-8b16ff08d75f09c836ef9ef3e91f0002google-top-storiesen-5.83333 -37.45NaturalDisastersStephen Hicks20200811121600https://es.noticias.yahoo.com/terremoto-b%C3%BAmeran-enigm%C3%A1tico-fen%C3%B3meno-detectado-231328169.htmlEsta área está en el océano Atlántico, cerca de la zona ecuatorial, y se extiende a lo largo de 900 km, a mitad de camino entre las costas de Brasil y Liberia, donde se juntan las placas sudamericana y africana. En 2016 esos sismógrafos detectaron un terremoto de magnitud 7,1 a lo largo de la....Wed, 12 Aug 2020 08:57:00 +0200es-noticias-a684ec4f34038a4e53dc30b2360204e6es-noticiases-5.83333 -37.45Knock-on "earthquake": the enigmatic phenomenon detected in the bottom of the sea (and what gives clues on the impact that could cause if happens in the lineside)Knock-on "earthquake": the enigmatic phenomenon detected in the bottom of the sea (and what gives clues on the impact that could cause if happens in the lineside)NaturalDisastersBBCDaniel Melnick20200812085700https://www.channelstv.com/2020/08/18/un-expert-urges-states-to-ban-evictions-amid-pandemic/(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 04, 2018 The “Palais des Nations”, which houses the United Nations Offices, is seen at the end of the flag-lined front lawn in Geneva. – The United Nations said on June 18, 2020, it was resuming resettlement travel for refugees, which was suspended in....Wed, 19 Aug 2020 05:24:00 +0200channelstv-1932f54077fa43090c3dc7d2f55ed57dchannelstven46.20153 6.1666667CommunicableDiseasesUNbodiesPublicHealthCoronavirusInfectionMigrationNaturalDisastersAspen InstituteUnited NationsFabrice COFFRINIAmid PandemicPalais des Nations20200819052400https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/08/19/20/un-expert-urges-states-to-ban-evictions-amid-pandemicLights are seen from apartments as residents stay in their homes at a condominuim during the corornavirus lockdown in Quezon City, Philippines on Sunday, March 29, 2020. Basilio H. Sepe, ABS-CBN News/File. GENEVA - A UN rights expert called Tuesday for governments to ban evictions until the....Tue, 18 Aug 2020 19:35:00 +0200abs-cbnnews-d138e3a71c5c730bc1eab1d489bc5153abs-cbnnewsen14.6629 121.065CoronavirusInfectionUNbodiesNaturalDisastersAspen InstituteUnited Nations20200818193500https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-earthquake-that-brought-enlightenment/The Great Lisbon Earthquake is the epitome of Portugal’s paradoxical relationship with the sea. For centuries leading up to the disaster, Portugal had grown fat on the bounty of a vast maritime empire that sprawled from Brazil to India—yet seafaring was generally reviled in Portuguese society and....Tue, 01 Sep 2020 09:13:00 +0200hakaimagazine-0ac6943e4a0ab8081d63afa0d0a4a75fhakaimagazineen38.7559 -9.12283NaturalDisastersDom José20200901091300https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/122648617/farmers-had-no-idea-they-had-a-fault-line-in-their-backyard--until-quake-struckBrazilian-born Guadagnin, then working as a farmhand, had never experienced an earthquake before. ''I thought it was the end of the world,'' he said this week. READ MORE: His co-worker and friend, fellow Brazilian Filipe Casagrande, was riding a quad bike on the farm, in the middle of 500 terrified cows, when the earthquake hit.Thu, 03 Sep 2020 09:24:00 +0200Stuff-1ff81e8a5749ebfba1efb4a55af859bfStuffen-41.3348 174.807NaturalDisastersAlison GrayJohn Gray20200903092400