21810 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.straight.com/confessions/2112/tsunami-dreamsI live in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. I keep having reoccurring dreams of a giant tsunami. In one dream I see the wave washing over the tallest buildings in my city. In another dream I'm at the top of the Malahat and the wave washes over the highway pulling cars down as it goes back out.2021-12-16T06:54+0100straight-091cbcb036ef8cedf1c5d2644e3d17a720211216065400https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/tsunami-early-warning-jrc-tests-new-low-cost-device-measure-sea-levelA new, low-cost experimental device for sea level measurement has been developed by JRC scientists. The first four devices have been installed in Spain and Portugal, in collaboration with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection and the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC).2021-12-16T06:53+0100EC-4cb5968acefe6cd09d2635ff006deee120211216065300https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/556946/banda-sea-magnitude-57-offshore-earthquake-occurs-in-the-southern-banda-sea-at-around-1326-tlt-dec-16Event. A magnitude-5.7 earthquake occurred in the southern Banda Sea at around 13:26 TLT Dec. 16. The epicenter was about 245 km (152 miles) northeast of Lospalos, Timor-Leste. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 15 km (9 miles), and moderate-to-strong shaking was probably felt throughout Damar Island, Maluku Province, Indonesia.2021-12-16T06:36+0100garda-com-1a64fe799d9dab4b96e43d89ca193bf520211216063600https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300479422/manawat-flooding-rural-community-cut-off-as-district-is-stricken-by-second-bout-of-heavy-rainA “tsunami of trees and silt” is why over a dozen households are cut off in a rural Manawatū valley, a stranded resident says. The Ruamahanga Stream, 26 kilometres northwest of Feilding, is usually dry. It's so small it doesn’t show up on a map. But the massive flooding in Manawatū on Wednesday sent....2021-12-16T05:55+0100Stuff-4321495a6b4f4deacd5cafa33245ddf020211216055500