14230 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.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20211005-looking-to-the-past-for-answers-on-future-tsunami-threatsLarge and destructive tsunamis in the past few decades — in the Indian Ocean in 2004, Chile in 2010 and Japan in 2011 — have underscored the threat tsunamis pose to coastal regions. Now new research is aimed at better predicting areas threatened by such fast-developing natural disasters.2021-10-05T23:03+0200homelandsecuritynewswire-ca8eec2ec7ee211ada4452d161656c4420211005230300http://english.sina.com/world/as/2021-10-06/detail-iktzscyx8089822.shtmlTOKYO, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 on Wednesday struck off Japan's Iwate Prefecture, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The quake occurred at around 2:46 a.m. local time, with its epicenter at a latitude of 40.0 degrees north and a longitude of 142.4 degrees east, and at depth of 50 km.2021-10-05T20:57+0200sinacom-en-fc71a86de0f89f4644bd1fa5b12d0ed420211005205700http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/asiapacific/2021-10/06/c_1310228035.htmTOKYO, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 on Wednesday struck off Japan's Iwate Prefecture, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The quake occurred at around 2:46 a.m. local time, with its epicenter at a latitude of 40.0 degrees north and a longitude of 142.4 degrees east, and at depth of 50 km.2021-10-05T20:54+0200xinhuanet-english-fc71a86de0f89f4644bd1fa5b12d0ed420211005205400https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/10/1ff1b73a293c-earthquake-alert.htmlDay and Time: Oct. 6, 2021, 2:46 a.m. Epicenter: Off Iwate Prefecture. N 40.0, E 142.4. Depth: 50 kilometers. Preliminary magnitude: 6.0. Seismic intensity scale: upper 5 out of maximum 7. Note: No tsunami warning issued. ==Kyodo.2021-10-05T20:45+0200kyodonews-d1e862a68102c409c98d7a4fb4b2cda820211005204500