418100 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://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/02/58fb578397ea-japan-completes-aid-mission-to-disaster-stricken-tonga.htmlJapanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said Thursday the Self-Defense Forces have completed their aid mission to Tonga, which was hit by tsunami waves and ash fall following a massive undersea volcanic eruption last month. Japan dispatched two Air Self-Defense Force C-130 transport planes and the....2022-02-17T13:10+0100kyodonews-af979f00d24bc53d9d153b33a135fd8520220217131000https://www.technology.org/2022/02/17/seconds-for-survival-why-earthquake-early-warning-systems-are-important/Earthquakes are extremely dangerous. Unlike extreme weather events, they are very difficult to predict, which means that earthquakes often attack unprepared people. This might change in the future as a new UCL-led study said that an early warning system in Greece and Italy could give people vital seconds’ notice of a major earthquake.2022-02-17T12:06+0100technology-92c50234c57448cac365d8974cc539da20220217120600https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202202/1252498.shtmlPeople look at the damage caused by the 7.2-magnitude earthquake on Aug. 14 in Marceline near Les Cayes, Haiti, on Aug. 22, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua) The international community pledged $600 million Wednesday to help rebuild Haiti's devastated south, where an earthquake killed more than 2,200 people six months ago.2022-02-17T11:43+0100globaltimes-38972e967313ea10630864cada2f57a020220217114300https://www.casertafocus.net/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48449:terremoto-nuova-scossa-nella-notte-ecco-dove-e-stata-avvertita&catid=20&Itemid=14110:45:05 Una scossa di terremoto di magnitudo 3.1 è stata registrata alle 2:06 in Campania, al confine col Molise. Secondo i rilevamenti dell'Istituto nazionale di geofisica e vulcanologia (Ingv), il sisma ha avuto ipocentro a 10 chilometri di profondità ed epicentro tra Sassinoro (Benevento) e Sepino (Campobasso).2022-02-17T11:31+0100247libero-2f51dea3eb837c26826919ddd86db5b620220217113100