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.rbth.com/history/333698-most-devastating-earthquakes-in-ussr?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSSOn Oct. 6, 1948, at about 1am, the capital of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR), Ashgabat, was shaken by powerful tremors measuring 710 on the Richter scale. The fragile, one-story earthen houses that comprised most of the city’s architecture collapsed almost instantaneously, becoming the graves of thousands of inhabitants.Thu, 22 Apr 2021 05:32:00 +0200rbth-78fe1fd62a16e92c03131396d5804e0crbthen37.9504 58.3901NaturalDisastersNatalya Kozlova20210422053200https://watchers.news/2021/04/14/the-weekly-volcanic-activity-report-april-7-13-2021/New activity/unrest: Karymsky, Eastern Kamchatka (Russia) | Krysuvik-Trolladyngja, Iceland | Pacaya, Guatemala | Piton de la Fournaise, Reunion Island (France) | Semisopochnoi, Aleutian Islands (USA) | Soufriere St. Vincent, St. Vincent | Suwanosejima, Ryukyu Islands (Japan).Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:21:00 +0200watchers-e0e7c7c1750c1cf37965195559a47af7watchersen55.7388 37.6665EnvironmentNaturalDisastersUS Geological SurveyVolcano ObservatoryIndian OceanNational Emergency ManagementVincent, StCESimon CarnEmergency20210415002100https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/6238096/mag4quake-May-10-2021-KURIL-ISLANDS-Russia.htmlJust 17 minutes ago, a 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck near Shikotan, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. The tremor was recorded in the morning on Monday 10 May 2021 at 10:40 am local time, at a moderately shallow depth of 40 km below the surface. The event was filed by the European-Mediterranean....Mon, 10 May 2021 03:20:00 +0200volcanodiscovery-85d312f69dbb32bdcc24e35bf4f5f77evolcanodiscoveryen45.0679349162116 147.876462455708NaturalDisastersEuropean-Mediterranean Seismological Centre20210510032000