13150 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.theepochtimes.com/wildfires-coronavirus-and-an-earthquake-collided-for-californias-terrible-week_3506983.htmlIt was long, dizzying week to be a Californian. The Golden State has been trying to contain the surge of coronavirus cases that started in the summer while dozens of wildfires are burning and smoke is making it hard to breathe. Then, as if not enough crises had collided, Southern California was....Sun, 20 Sep 2020 21:44:00 +0200theepochtimes-0242683cb24a7b5ed0ecb9ceed07767720200920214400https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/wildfires-schools-coronavirus.htmlAsh fell from an apocalyptic orange sky as Jennifer Willin drove home last week from the only school in tiny Berry Creek, Calif., where she had picked up a pair of Wi-Fi hot spots for her daughters’ remote classes. Hours later, her cellphone erupted with an emergency alert: Evacuate immediately.Sun, 20 Sep 2020 20:34:00 +0200nytimes-aa17111681b57f86afe818c412e123a920200920203400https://www.wrcbtv.com/story/42654499/wildfires-coronavirus-and-an-earthquake-collided-for-californias-terrible-weekThe Golden State has been trying to contain the surge of coronavirus cases that started in the summer while dozens of wildfires are burning and smoke is making it hard to breathe. Then, as if not enough crises had collided, Southern California was caught in the clutches of yet another hazard -- an earthquake.Sun, 20 Sep 2020 14:11:00 +0200wrcbtv-469f2ba8ce0c76a69a356171bff377e020200920141100https://www.sis.gov.eg/Story/152199/NRIA-5.8-magnitude-earthquake-hit-Crete%2c-400km-off-Egypt%E2%80%99s-shore?lang=en-usA 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Crete, 400 kilometres off Egypt’s shore, Head of the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIA) Gad El Kady said in a statement on Friday 18/09/2020. The quake occurred at 6:30 p.m. Cairo local time, he added. The quake was felt by residents of the coastal cities in northern Egypt, he added.Fri, 18 Sep 2020 23:29:00 +0200sis-623716791225f8ad8d3db0e706aaa99120200918232900