155270GDACS 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 National 11 years on, evacuation order lifted for part of 'difficult-to-return' Fukushima town The removal of the evacuation order was the first for a difficult-to-return zone in the municipalities that host Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. 13 mins agohttps://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/06/30/national/okuma-fukushima-evacuation-order-lifting/A couple sit in their garden in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Thursday, after an evacuation order was lifted for a specified reconstruction zone in the town. | KYODO. Okuma, Fukushima Pref. – Japan lifted an evacuation order Thursday morning for a part of Okuma, a town in Fukushima....2022-06-30T09:37+0200japantimes-4835665505163ef6cdc0026fb79e8fcb20220630093700Collapsed bridge helps inform future flood-resistant designshttps://www.miragenews.com/collapsed-bridge-helps-inform-future-flood-811020/Learning optimal design needs from the catastrophic problem of failed structures. Washed out bridge. Scientists assessing the damage to the Misasa River bridge in 2018. (Image courtesy of Ichio Ario et al., Hiroshima University) Before record rainfall in July of 2018, the Misasa Railroad Bridge....2022-06-30T08:24+0200miragenews-47bfd3c4d03d7612877633b849cdd13f20220630082400Malta warned to prepare for tsunami within 30 years – timesofmalta.comhttps://www.unravelmalta.com/malta-warned-to-prepare-for-tsunami-within-30-years-timesofmalta-com/Malta has been told by UNESCO to prepare for a tsunami within 30 years and that at least one of its coastal towns should have tsunami preparations in place by the end of 2023. The chance of a tsunami within the next three decades is “100 per cent”, UNESCO said, urging at-risk coastal cities on the Mediterranean Sea to become ‘tsunami-ready’.2022-06-30T07:47+0200unravelmalta-01af64eabdd567d2e3de30555c879dcf20220630074700Malta warned to prepare for tsunami within 30 yearshttps://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/malta-told-prepare-tsunami-years.964979Malta has been told by UNESCO to prepare for a tsunami within 30 years and that at least one of its coastal towns should have tsunami preparations in place by the end of 2023. The chance of a tsunami within the next three decades is “100 per cent”, UNESCO said, urging at-risk coastal cities on the Mediterranean Sea to become ‘tsunami-ready’.2022-06-30T07:40+0200timesofmalta-16b9c65f075c73c7e42f8e3039611f2020220630074000