381390GDACS EMM News Feed 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 Quantifying the inundation impacts of earthquake-induced surface elevation change by hydrological and hydraulic modelinghttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83309-7Current estimates of flood hazards are often based on the assumption that topography is static. When tectonic and/or anthropogenic processes change the land surface elevation, the spatial patterns of floods might also change. Here, we employ the hydrological and hydraulic modeling to simulate floods....Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:14:00 +0100nature-Earth-and-Environmental-Sciences-068d2d7d03ea5ae64b8be3bef680ea5420210219121400Earthquake Emergency Centers Set Up in Tohoku Japanhttps://www.sokaglobal.org/in-society/news/emergency-centers-tohoku.htmlIn response to a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that hit the Tohoku region of Japan on February 13, the Soka Gakkai set up a central emergency communications center at the Soka Gakkai headquarters in Tokyo and two local emergency centers in the Tohoku region.Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:58:00 +0100sgi-a7d1228fcdcb83e814189e1c0cf05c4820210219095800Gumboots at the ready as more coastal Cantabrians find themselves in tsunami zonehttps://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/124268325/gumboots-at-the-ready-as-more-coastal-cantabrians-find-themselves-in-tsunami-zonePegasus and Kaiapoi residents may want to invest in some gumboots after new tsunami mapping put them in a flood zone. Coastal evacuation zones have been revised after scientific modelling, commissioned by Environment Canterbury (ECan), was carried out last year for North Pegasus Bay.Fri, 19 Feb 2021 01:12:00 +0100Stuff-fd023f31f754715887d0d5ae2ca07c5a20210219011200Pakistan- Project commencement workshop for disaster resilient school infrastructure heldhttps://menafn.com/1101624647/Pakistan-Project-commencement-workshop-for-disaster-resilient-school-infrastructure-held&source=27(MENAFN - Tribal News Network) PESHAWAR: Project Commencement and Advocacy Workshop of the Project for improvement of Disaster Resilient School Infrastructure in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was held in Peshawar, which was attended by Furuta Skigeki, Chief Representative JICA; Qaiser Humayun, Economic....Thu, 18 Feb 2021 22:16:00 +0100menafn-d1be26aa5879c08b84f57dd663db0a6920210218221600