26490GDACS 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 26-May-2022 Tsunami threats underestimated in current models, new research shows University of Southern California Peer-Reviewed Publication USC researchers have found a correlation between tsunami severity and the width of the outer wedge — the area between the continental shelf and deep trenches....https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/953984Credit: Mesa Schumacher and Edward Soleto. The 2004 Sumatra earthquake generated one of the most destructive tsunamis ever recorded, with 100-foot waves that killed nearly 230,000 and resulted in an estimated $10 billion in damage. It also ushered in a new understanding that potent tsunamis are....2022-05-26T14:10+0200eurekalert-a9a9603a6cc58e3c17d896df47721dc820220526141000Tsunami threats underestimated in current modelshttps://www.miragenews.com/tsunami-threats-underestimated-in-current-models-789702/The 2004 Sumatra earthquake generated one of the most destructive tsunamis ever recorded, with 100-foot waves that killed nearly 230,000 and resulted in an estimated $10 billion in damage. It also ushered in a new understanding that potent tsunamis are triggered by shallow earthquake ruptures of underwater fault lines.2022-05-26T14:05+0200miragenews-4a6a5df92ef2b2ca7be9da677dfc102a20220526140500Tsunami threats are greatly underestimated in current models, new research showshttps://www.miragenews.com/tsunami-threats-are-greatly-underestimated-in-789581/The 2004 Sumatra earthquake generated one of the most destructive tsunamis ever recorded, with 100-foot waves that killed nearly 230,000 and resulted in an estimated $10 billion in damage. It also ushered in a new understanding that potent tsunamis are triggered by shallow earthquake ruptures of underwater fault lines.2022-05-26T09:22+0200miragenews-91cbc1b73e70600ff89fb800959575ee202205260922005.5 magnitude earthquake strikes southern Mexicohttps://www.tellerreport.com/life/2022-05-26-5-5-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-southern-mexico.B1rr5Mdnvq.html2022-05-26T03:22:53.035Z. An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 has hit the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, according to the US Geological Survey. It is noted that the focus of the tremors was at a depth of 34.7 km. Earlier, an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 was recorded off the coast of Japan.2022-05-26T05:25+0200tellerreport-5047403e7a814b2a6b4acb71226d9f1c20220526052500