8771650GDACS 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 Preliminary Satellite Derived Earthquake Damage Assessment -,Nippe, Grand'Anse and South Departments, Haiti, 16 August 2021https://reliefweb.int/map/haiti/preliminary-satellite-derived-earthquake-damage-assessment-nippe-grandanse-and-southHaiti Earthquake Overview. A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Haiti on August 14 2021, at 8:29am local time. The earthquake occurred 78 miles (125km) west of the capital city of Port-au-Prince at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 kilometres). The epicentre of the earthquake was recorded in Haiti’s southwest....2021-08-16T22:39+0200reliefWeb-a6740339edf8dd61dc8d7178b14bb3bd20210816223900Haiti braces for Grace, Florida for Fred as storms brewhttp://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20210816/haiti-braces-grace-florida-fred-storms-brew(AP) - Tropical Depression Grace drenched earthquake-damaged Haiti on Monday, threatening to dump up to 15 inches (38 centimeters) of rain on a landscape where people are huddling in fields and searching for survivors. Tropical Storm Fred grew stronger as it closed in on Florida’s coast, and a third tropical system was swirling around Bermuda.2021-08-16T22:22+0200jamaica-star-42e79ae6a26f4bce200cc1d3bab611fc20210816222200Fred makes landfall along Florida’s panhandle, Grace nears Dominican Republichttps://www.wftv.com/weather/eye-on-the-tropics/fred-bring-dangerous-storm-surge-florida-panhandle-grace-nears-dominican-republic/EBMKMURKOZBYDKWEHUTQCOGM2Q/215 PM CDT 16 August -- National Weather Service WSR-88D radar data indicates that Tropical Storm #Fred has made landfall near Cape San Blas, Florida. Fred's maximum sustained winds at landfall are estimated to be 65 MPH. Latest: As of 2pm (EDT), Tropical Storm Fred was 35 miles southwest of Apalachicola, Florida and moving NNE at 9mph.2021-08-16T21:53+0200wftv-3eaac89aca2e499fb99321fc3018269720210816215300Haiti braces for Grace, Florida for Fred as storms brewhttps://www.tampabay.com/hurricane/2021/08/16/haiti-braces-for-grace-florida-for-fred-as-storms-brew/Tropical Depression Grace drenched earthquake-damaged Haiti on Monday, threatening to dump up to 15 inches of rain on a landscape where people are huddling in fields and searching for survivors . Tropical Storm Fred grew stronger as it closed in on Florida’s coast, and a third tropical system was swirling around Bermuda.2021-08-16T21:46+0200tampabay-80e63d6f29b57ffe20a7f22df6afafa420210816214600