59350GDACS 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 Drill tests readiness for response to calamityhttps://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/drill-tests-readiness-for-response-to-calamity/article37964938.eceThe administration’s readiness for response to potential calamity was put to test in a tsunami mock drill, held near the French War Memorial on the Beach promenade on Tuesday evening. The exercise, as part of the commemoration of the 75th year of India's Independence, aimed at creating awareness on....2021-12-15T21:40+0100thehindu-a51f251443f93832920d3873494f0cb720211215214000Chennai's floods: the city has learned nothing from the past here's what...https://menafn.com/1103367112/Chennais-floods-the-city-has-learned-nothing-from-the-past-heres-what-it-can-do&source=139- The Conversation) November 2021 was a devastating month for flooding in the city of Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu in southern India. With 1,000mm of rainfall in just four weeks, these were the worst rains since the devastating floods of 2015 when it poured for 22 out 30 days in December, setting a record of 1,049mm.2021-12-15T19:53+0100menafn-f5a1e9e77308cd29c5bc060a9ad9650320211215195300Indonesia lifts tsunami alert after powerful undersea quakehttps://www.startribune.com/indonesia-lifts-tsunami-alert-after-powerful-undersea-quake/600126826/According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake hit at a depth of 18.5 kilometers (11.5 miles) under the sea, and was located 112 kilometers (74 miles) north of the town of Maumere, the second-largest on the island in East Nusa Tenggara province with a population of 85,000.2021-12-15T17:06+0100startribune-51fd1ea22451d396d35cfd91573d07b820211215170600Moderate magnitude 4.4 quake hits 45 km south of Wakkanai, Japan late at nighthttps://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/158479/Moderate-magnitude-44-quake-hits-45-km-south-of-Wakkanai-Japan-late-at-night-.htmlA magnitude 4.4 earthquake near Wakkanai, Wakkanai Shi, Hokkaido, Japan, was reported only 15 minutes ago by Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), considered the main national agency that monitors seismic activity in this part of the world.2021-12-15T14:58+0100volcanodiscovery-468e1e6922405a11decb68eac50bf7a420211215145800