24850 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.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2021/12/09/we-need-ambitious-disaster-risk-reduction-more-than-ever.html“Salus populi suprema lex esto. The safety of the people shall be the supreme law.” Officials always have this adage in their back pocket whenever a disaster strikes. But guess what? This is barely spoken during peacetime, the only window of opportunity we have to prepare for future disasters. What has been happening since Mt.2021-12-10T01:05+0100JakartaPost-dc852e1fce8e2f871bb454ac6317d82420211210010500https://www.staradvertiser.com/2021/12/09/breaking-news/dozens-of-earthquakes-strike-off-oregon-coast-but-experts-say-not-to-worry/Just after midnight Tuesday, a 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Oregon. It was nothing groundbreaking, because quakes happen offshore all the time. An hour and a half later, another tremor rippled through the seafloor. And then another earthquake struck. And another. And another. By now, seismologists were really paying attention.2021-12-09T22:21+0100HonululuAdvertiser-dc6f7c3da6cd6c72b0d1a75514316b7f20211209222100https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/6536549/mag4quake-Dec-9-2021-SOUTH-OF-PANAMA.htmlAn earthquake of magnitude 4.4 occurred around noon on Thursday, December 9th, 2021, at 12:33 pm local time near Burica, Provincia de Chiriqui, Panama, as reported by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC). According to preliminary data, the quake was located at a shallow depth of 15 km.2021-12-09T20:31+0100volcanodiscovery-88f8fc9b95eef19b86dc528c793849d820211209203100https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/554196/png-magnitude-57-offshore-earthquake-occurs-off-east-new-britain-province-at-around-2352-dec-9Event. A magnitude-5.7 offshore earthquake occurred off the northeast coast of East New Britain Province at around 23:52 Dec. 9. The epicenter was about 76 km (47 miles) south of Kokopo. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 35 km (22 miles), and moderate-to-light shaking was probably felt....2021-12-09T16:42+0100garda-com-dce50463b1d02839bb995028d1b1c0cf20211209164200