8800 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://watchers.news/2020/11/29/japan-fireball-november-2020/A very bright fireball streaked through the night sky over central Japan at around 16:35 UTC on November 28, 2020 (01:35 JST, November 29). The object was seen and recorded from many parts of western and central Japan and was accompanied by a rumbling noise....... Read more »Sun, 29 Nov 2020 12:25:00 +0100watchers-8a5e0700c54e5dd2f1f81d9fa7bab9fe20201129122500https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/6002009/mag4quake-Nov-27-2020-IZU-ISLANDS-JAPAN-REGION.htmlNearby towns and cities: 389 km (242 mi) S of Shimoda (pop: 26,700) 412 km (256 mi) SSE of Iwata (pop: 88,500) 416 km (258 mi) SSE of Hamamatsu (pop: 605,100) 418 km (260 mi) SSE of Yaizu (pop: 121,100) 430 km (267 mi) SSE of Shizuoka (pop: 701,600) 435 km (270 mi) SSE of Toyohashi (pop: 378,400)....Fri, 27 Nov 2020 13:36:00 +0100volcanodiscovery-3a4293c25b27c872897405ef12ec3a1120201127133600https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/books/yu-miri-tokyo-ueno-station.htmlTOKYO — Walking on an autumn Saturday through Ueno Park, one of this city’s most popular attractions, the novelist Yu Miri was stunned by how beautified the grounds seemed since her last visit several years earlier. Pointing to a grove of trees where people were picnicking at a social distance, she....Fri, 27 Nov 2020 11:27:00 +0100nytimes-f77110e20531b956759c8c23b51fc16020201127112700https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/114678/Magnitude-40-earthquake-strikes-near-Morioka-Japan.html4.0 quake 27 Nov 5:54 am (GMT +9) The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported a magnitude 4.0 quake in Japan near Miyako only 15 minutes ago. The earthquake hit early morning on Friday 27 November 2020 at 5.54 am local time at a moderately shallow depth of 60 km.Thu, 26 Nov 2020 22:14:00 +0100volcanodiscovery-ae87e1bbd31eb895e2be7497b777160f20201126221400