410250 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.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-human-skeleton-from-bronze-age-tsunami-discovered-in-turkey-180979312/Researchers found the skeleton of a human (pictured) and dog left behind by a tsunami that destroyed coastal communities along the Mediterranean Sea some 3,600 years ago. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A massive volcanic eruption in the Mediterranean Sea some 3,600 years ago might....2022-01-05T21:07+0100smithsonianmag-c4209f272e575a777489d62a42e74a7520220105210700https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/archaeologists-find-victim-of-ancient-tsunami-caused-by-thera-eruption/Archaeologists working in what is now western Turkey recently unearthed the rubble left behind by a series of powerful tsunamis that slammed into a Bronze Age city. The giant waves were triggered by the eruption of the volcano Thera on the island of Santorini, hundreds of kilometers away—a cataclysm....2022-01-05T19:49+0100arstechnica-a0aaed9712ae3e930fb659d47ef44d0e20220105194900https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/563086/coral-sea-magnitude-53-offshore-earthquake-occurs-off-vanuatu-jan-5Event. A magnitude-5.3 earthquake occurred in the Coral Sea between southern Vanuatu and the Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, at around 22:46 VUT Jan. 5. The epicenter was about 88 km (55 miles) southwest of Isangel, Vanuatu. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 10 km (6 miles), and....2022-01-05T14:40+0100garda-com-72ad102bb0a69280034a229111e7aaa620220105144000https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/563006/russia-magnitude-54-offshore-earthquake-occurs-east-of-kamchatka-krai-at-around-1922-jan-5Event. A magnitude-5.4 earthquake occurred in the Bering Sea east of Kamchatka Krai, Russia, at around 19:22 Jan. 5. The epicenter was about 157 km (98 miles) east of Ust'-Kamchatsk Staryy. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 13 km (8 miles), and weak-to-light shaking was probably felt throughout eastern Kamchatka Krai.2022-01-05T09:12+0100garda-com-5acca39cd8375c58f739fd7c953936c320220105091200