9900 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://manilastandard.net/news/314250520/solon-eyes-stricter-national-building-code.htmlA lawmaker has batted for the enactment of a bill seeking to repeal the country’s obsolete National Building Code. Pleyto filed House Bill 1180 providing for more stringent laws governing the building construction industry. In a privilege speech, Rep. Salvador Pleyto of Bulacan said the destruction brought about by the magnitude 7.2022-08-09T16:48+0200manilastandard-ph-50866948bc71ad10567684c17193ce9f20220809164800https://www.hindustantimes.com/science/why-the-length-of-earth-s-days-has-been-mysteriously-increasing-101659942220684.htmlAtomic clocks, combined with precise astronomical measurements, have revealed that the length of a day is suddenly getting longer, and scientists don’t know why. This has critical impacts not just on our timekeeping, but also things like GPS and other technologies that govern our modern life.2022-08-08T10:48+0200HindustanTimes-23870aa79d3e57cbc410806b2aaea8ac20220808104800https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/188548/Small-33-quake-hits-near-Hilo-Hawaii-County-Hawaii-USA.htmlA moderately shallow magnitude 3.3 earthquake was reported early evening near Hilo, Hawaii County, Hawaii, USA. According to the United States Geological Survey, the quake hit on Sunday, August 7th, 2022, at 6:06 pm local time at a moderately shallow depth of 20 miles.2022-08-08T06:26+0200volcanodiscovery-b5b6771d5c08785e1f9945e3031db8e820220808062600https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2022/08/08/2003783153Similarly, a 2015 study of coral boulders on Orchid Island (Lanyu, 蘭嶼), “Coral boulders along the coast of the Lanyu Island, offshore southeastern Taiwan, as potential paleotsunami records,” identified several out of place coral boulders that were likely due to tsunamis. “The largest boulder on the island, at Site 14, has a long axis of 7.2022-08-07T18:51+0200taipeitimes-bb24b2bc74e1eea0dc029348b7f8e0b020220807185100