265260 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.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/517641/honduras-magnitude-52-earthquake-occurs-near-pinalejo-late-afternoon-aug-25Event. A magnitude-5.2 earthquake occurred in northwest Honduras at around 16:04 Aug. 25. The epicenter was about 10 km (6 miles) north-northeast of Pinalejo. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 9 km (6 miles) and shaking was probably felt throughout nearby areas of Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and El Salvador.2021-08-26T00:25+0200garda-com-fda28b8c1647b50d933ee829d4bb476c20210826002500https://www.enn.com/articles/68538-tree-rings-from-old-growth-douglas-firs-on-the-oregon-coast-show-evidence-of-1700-tsunamiCore samples taken from a stand of old growth Douglas-fir trees in the South Beach area just south of Newport showed reduced growth following the 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck the Pacific Northwest in 1700. Core samples taken from a stand of old growth Douglas-fir trees in the....2021-08-25T17:43+0200enn-3315608aa5a8a1a734c465aeb8b1fd5420210825174300https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Fukushima-nuclear-water-to-be-released-via-16410528.phpAn official in charge of the water discharge project, Junichi Matsumoto, said TEPCO will construct the undersea tunnel by drilling through bedrock in the seabed near its No. 5 reactor, which survived the meltdowns at the plant, to minimize possible underground contamination or leakage of radioactive ground water into the tunnel.2021-08-25T15:32+0200sfgate-8c7f6555b466b88dcd45b4bcd698c34920210825153200https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2021/08/25/tree-rings-show-evidence-of-1700-cascadia-earthquake/Evidence of a Cascadia earthquake's awesome destructive power is visible at the beach in Neskowin, Oregon. A "ghost forest" of Sitka spruces was likely buried by tsunami debris 2,000 years earlier, and partially uncovered by storms in 1997. ASSOCIATED PRESS. The last major earthquake to strike the U.2021-08-25T15:26+0200forbes-2563546f0e0ffb5ab7c5b94888928a2f20210825152600