400 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://dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2020/10/19/magnitude-5-0-quake-shakes-the-dominican-republic/Santo Domingo.- A magnitude 5.0 earthquake was reported early Mon. by the U.S. Geodetic Survey (USGS), which monitors seismic activity worldwide. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.1 km (4.4 mi) beneath the epicenter, near Sanchez, in the Dominican Republic’s northeast.Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:36:00 +0200dominicantoday-007ab61b165213911786a038ac160fbc20201019133600https://buffalonews.com/news/2020-climate-disasters-in-50-photos/collection_50df6b81-588b-5e91-a253-432511dac64d.htmlperienced fires in places that rarely catch fire. Smoke blanketed the sky so thickly that some residents didn’t see blue for days. Another record has been broken: that of named tropical storms. After running out of the alphabetical list of names for tropical storms, new storms have been named after the Greek alphabet.Thu, 15 Oct 2020 11:35:00 +0200buffalonews-dcda43d9a0739f331338b3c168f489de20201015113500https://reliefweb.int/report/dominican-republic/disasters-americas-case-legal-preparednessDisasters are an all-too-common feature of life in the Americas. Recent catastrophic events, such as Hurricane Mitch in Central America in 1998, the earthquakes in Peru in 2007 and in Haiti and Chile in 2010, have wreaked a colossal toll on the lives, communities and development prospects of the stricken countries.Thu, 15 Oct 2020 07:18:00 +0200reliefWeb-84b2bdf3b6cb42e7ce1cc315c4f1103b20201015071800https://acento.com.do/cultura/los-29-anos-de-lucha-y-los-26-exitos-del-teatro-guloya-8862815.htmlSANTO DOMINGO, República Dominicana.- Teatro Guloya es el tipo de empeño artístico que evidencia la fuerza de la idea inspiradora para llevar a escenarios las diversas expresiones de la vida. Ha dado y ha recogido vida en 26 montajes que recorren personajes y circunstancias y que durante años han....Sun, 20 Sep 2020 16:30:00 +0200acento-5d68949f1b66fc10161153658b8bc6a620200920163000