8000 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.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/24/8932The evaluation of buildings damage following disasters from natural hazards is a crucial step in determining the extent of the damage and measuring renovation needs. In this study, a combination of the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and light detection and ranging (LIDAR) data before and after the....Tue, 15 Dec 2020 07:51:00 +0100mdpi-b94aef106737bf54a899382d6f2938f420201215075100https://www.9news.com.au/world/fishing-boat-in-japan-tsunami-found-after-nine-years/4d1a9440-ab6d-46ae-90b7-114d7233c2deMore than nine years after the disastrous earthquake and tsunami in Japan , a small fishing boat from the affected coastline has been found. The March 2011 earthquake triggered a tsunami with 40m-high waves that swept over the Japanese mainland. The disaster killed at least 10,000 people, injured....Tue, 15 Dec 2020 04:36:00 +01009news-97b8c50a02c6e76f1b7c574b3a9ccb2a20201215043600https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/24/8932The evaluation of buildings damage following disasters from natural hazards is a crucial step in determining the extent of the damage and measuring renovation needs. In this study, a combination of the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and light detection and ranging (LIDAR) data before and after the....Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:11:00 +0100mdpi-755a27ef2ffe1acfa9fe7db9811f1b0220201214161100https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/601357/World/Asia/M55-quake-hits-northeastern-Japan-no-tsunami-warning-issuedTOKYO — A magnitude-5.5 earthquake hit the northeastern Japan prefectures of Iwate and Aomori on Saturday but no tsunami warning was issued, Kyodo quoted the weather agency as saying. The quake at 4:19 p.m. with its focus at a depth of 50 kilometers off the coast of Iwate registered lower 5 on the....Mon, 14 Dec 2020 04:13:00 +0100saudigazette-e5cf90e4d91c4c4b57b8a371e41e681520201214041300