900 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.samoanews.com/linking-samoans/local-engineer-Natalia-Palamo-profiled-her-universityAuckland, NEW ZEALAND — For the past four years, Natalia Palamo has been Senior Engineer at the Department of Port Administration in American Samoa, with responsibility for airport and seaport projects. Prior to this, she worked for Beca Group on airport pavements, storm water and inspections and....Sat, 28 Nov 2020 20:58:00 +0100samoanews-79496b6098db42f1a61fa73ef11c74c520201128205800https://www.samoaobserver.ws/category/samoa/74845The Prime Minister tabled the Meteorology Geosciences and Ozone Bill 2020 in Parliament this week but his advocacy for a little-known system for measuring earthquakes' intensity went largely unnoticed. Unlike the generally accepted Richter Scale, which measures an earthquake based on magnitude the....Fri, 20 Nov 2020 21:02:00 +0100samoaobserver-007db0b5e00d4b4aa268bf187e4a9e5a20201120210200https://www.samoaobserver.ws/category/samoa/74540A bill establishing new, faster warning systems for earthquakes, cyclones and other natural disasters will be tabled before Parliament on Tuesday. Members of the Samoa Meteorological Service appeared before Members of Parliament on Monday during their Parliament Pre-Sitting, to speak about the bill....Mon, 16 Nov 2020 06:26:00 +0100samoaobserver-c13a05930444fd492818f422064d083920201116062600https://www.samoaobserver.ws/category/samoa/74292It is normal for Samoa to experience two to three earthquakes per month. So says Seismologist and the Samoa Meteorology Division Acting Assistant Chief Executive Officer, Fuimaono Lameko Talia. Responding to questions from the Samoa Observer, Fuimaono said that based on a presentation he did....Wed, 11 Nov 2020 19:24:00 +0100samoaobserver-af85a8f2ba6cdb7b17e82742646c254020201111192400