31490 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://en.haberler.com/world-saw-13-654-quakes-of-magnitude-4-or-above-in-1570954/Around the world, there were 13,654 earthquakes of magnitude 4 or higher in 2020, the strongest of which was recorded in the US. Around 500,000 earthquakes, minor or major, occur on Earth every year, about 100,000 of which are felt, while around 100 cause damage.Tue, 02 Mar 2021 03:30:00 +0100haberler-en-e66755637d6eadb9c554bd43cc24a8ef20210302033000http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14204856YOKOHAMA--Historic negatives that capture the destruction to this port city close to Tokyo caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake are causing a stir among researchers. Twenty-eight glass dry plates discovered by chance in 2018 vividly illustrate burned-out buildings in the city's central....Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:19:00 +0100ajw-f07c46a89ebbf85edaee512315a1a4b720210302001900https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/5/2637In disaster management, evacuation modeling is considered a useful visual tool to disaster managers for reviewing current evacuation strategies, estimating the ability of shelters to accommodate all evacuees, and developing evacuation route planning. Though there are several existing studies on....Mon, 01 Mar 2021 20:42:00 +0100mdpi-0b8a60677f314e86609e3d5c278737a520210301204200https://www.thoughtco.com/the-rules-of-architecture-177224On the back of the Pritzker medallion are three words: Firmness, Commodity, and Delight. These rules of architecture define the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered the highest honor that a living architect can attain. According to the Hyatt Foundation which administers the Prize,....Mon, 01 Mar 2021 13:27:00 +0100thoughtco-778ff9afec124c2c67363585937b25d820210301132700