30740 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 http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-10/27/c_139469313.htmTEHRAN, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- A 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit Bahabad region in Iran's central Yazd province at 1:04 local time (2134 GMT) on early Tuesday morning, according to Iran's Seismological Center. Enditem.Tue, 27 Oct 2020 00:19:00 +0100xinhuanet_en-9f5594cc9fcfb15a0d3a530279a6513120201027001900https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/environnement/savoie-un-petit-seisme-ressenti-ce-lundi-soir-dans-le-secteur-de-bourg-saint-maurice-1603748020Les pompiers de Savoie ont reçu ce lundi soir plusieurs appels d'habitants du secteur de Bourg-Saint-Maurice. Ils ont ressenti un petit séisme, à 21 heures 47 précisément. Il n'y a pas de dégâts relevés. L'épicentre de ce petit séisme de magnitude 2,7 sur l'échelle de Richter lundi soir est à 10....Mon, 26 Oct 2020 23:12:00 +0100francebleu-2ab92b62b321e8f4c4049b5738e2ab0920201026231200https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/former-christchurch-school-board-chair-labels-ministry-of-education-toxic/BWNLZPXYL2YCVUTEACNB6M2DZY/By Phil Pennington of RNZ The Ministry of Education went against expert advice at a quake-damaged Christchurch school, hit spiralling problems and costs, and was obstructive and misleading, documents show. The Ministry hit out against the school's leadership when they asked questions - and has been forced to apologise three times.Mon, 26 Oct 2020 22:26:00 +0100nzherald-5b2d015ab9b2c2e8cc685b60331eb71320201026222600https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/india-much-safer-against-tsunami-threat-incois-director/article32947534.eceIndia is much safer against tsunami threat than it was in 2004, thanks to the state-of-the-art tsunami early warning system established at Indian National Centre for Ocean Information System (INCOIS) here. However, the best of warning systems could fail, if communities are not prepared, if they do....Mon, 26 Oct 2020 20:53:00 +0100thehindu-4491740c185e508be190dc6fd37bf17420201026205300