11120 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.mercurynews.com/2021/01/29/how-the-atmospheric-river-storm-affected-californias-water-supply/This week’s big storm soaked the Bay Area. It brought blizzards of much-needed snow to the Sierra Nevada. It triggered evacuations in the Santa Cruz Mountains and wrecked Highway 1 in Big Sur. The soaking system — the region’s first atmospheric river storm of the winter — made an impressive dent in California’s very dry winter.Sat, 30 Jan 2021 00:42:00 +0100mercurynews-76ca284b32b53d0b5b4378b0a897258620210130004200https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/01/29/how-the-atmospheric-river-storm-affected-californias-water-supply/This week’s big storm soaked the Bay Area. It brought blizzards of much-needed snow to the Sierra Nevada. It triggered evacuations in the Santa Cruz Mountains and wrecked Highway 1 in Big Sur. The soaking system — the region’s first atmospheric river storm of the winter — made an impressive dent in California’s very dry winter.Sat, 30 Jan 2021 00:38:00 +0100eastbaytimes-76ca284b32b53d0b5b4378b0a897258620210130003800https://ticotimes.net/2021/01/29/magnitude-6-0-earthquake-shakes-southern-costa-rica-on-friday-morningMany residents of the Southern Zone didn’t need an alarm to wake up early on Friday morning. A magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook southern Costa Rica and northern Panama at 6:41 a.m., the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI) said. The epicenter was estimated at 37.6 km southwest of Puerto Armuelles, Panama.Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:20:00 +0100ticotimes-26af8c4b23cebc9f126aaf84024d39bd20210129172000https://www.total-croatia-news.com/news/50143-croats-in-vojvodina-raise-over-50-000-in-aid-for-earthquake-victims-in-croatiaZAGREB, 29 January, 2021 - The Catholic churches in the Subotica diocese in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina have raised about €40,000 in aid for earthquake-devastated areas of central Croatia, and another €11,000 has been raised through the Croatian National Council.Fri, 29 Jan 2021 14:49:00 +0100total-croatia-news-3df076e5b8419c06e8a54ba156a58a7220210129144900