15300 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.samoaobserver.ws/category/samoa/85659The Japan International Cooperation Agency (J.I.C.A) has announced the appointment of Satoru Mimura as the new chief advisor to the Regional Project on Solid Waste Management. Mr. Mimura will be working in Samoa for the remaining 16 months of the second phase of the five-year project (2017 – 2022). The Government of Japan through the J.Mon, 14 Jun 2021 01:59:00 +0200samoaobserver-03e52078c69a97bf1da2dda4d4dbe39820210614015900https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/132631/Moderate-43-quake-hits-near-Kitaibaraki-Kitaibaraki-shi-Ibaraki-Japan.htmlAn earthquake of magnitude 4.3 occurred early morning on Monday 14 June 2021 at 4:06 am local time near Kitaibaraki, Kitaibaraki-shi, Ibaraki, Japan, as reported by Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED). According to preliminary data, the quake was located at a very shallow depth of 8 km.Sun, 13 Jun 2021 21:34:00 +0200volcanodiscovery-fd54efff02c8861889e9cb42079d525420210613213400https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/6283769/mag4quake-Jun-13-2021-Japan-NORTHERN-IBARAKI-PREF.htmlAn earthquake of magnitude 4.3 occurred early morning on Monday 14 June 2021 at 4:06 am local time near Kitaibaraki, Kitaibaraki-shi, Ibaraki, Japan, as reported by Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED). According to preliminary data, the quake was located at a very shallow depth of 8 km.Sun, 13 Jun 2021 21:34:00 +0200volcanodiscovery-e377bbeab4bf20b86454af4790e40a9e20210613213400https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/132526/Moderate-magnitude-49-quake-hits-9-km-northeast-of-Ebetsu-Japan-early-morning-.htmlJust 16 minutes ago, a 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck near Ebetsu, Ebetsu-shi, Hokkaido, Japan. The tremor was recorded early morning on Sunday 13 June 2021 at 5:32 am local time, at an intermediate to considerable depth of 168.5 km below the surface.Sat, 12 Jun 2021 22:49:00 +0200volcanodiscovery-37f2def1b95896f6139b20636628fb7820210612224900