231300 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.archyde.com/tag/disasters-accidents/(Reuters) – Two Nordstream gas pipelines linking Russia to Europe in the Baltic Sea have leaked for unknown reasons. The extent of the impact is … CHALSADA, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In late August, the swollen Swat River in northwestern Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa turned....2022-10-31T19:26+0100archyde-868205887d5a673d4f2caff77a46990020221031192600https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-10-31/study-says-l-a-flood-risk-is-far-greater-than-anticipatedFlooding from a storm event so severe that it occurs only once every 100 years would cause far greater damage to life and property in the Los Angeles Basin than federal emergency officials have forecast, according to UC Irvine researchers who warn also that Black and low-income communities would be hardest hit by the disaster.2022-10-31T17:16+0100latimes-3086efea79cb07a95fbd7a65ca26818720221031171600https://ahacentre.org/weekly-disaster-update/weekly-disaster-update-24-30-october-2022/REGIONAL SUMMARY: For the forty-third week of 2022, a total of 43 disasters (2 earthquakes, 28 floods, 8 landslides, 1 storm, and 4 wind-related) affected the region. Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have reportedly been affected. Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana BNPB ) reported floods,....2022-10-31T17:09+0100ahacentre-ba0c2cdea112ccee6afba45afcf3f8e320221031170900https://www.rediff.com/news/report/five-bridge-collapses-that-shocked-india/20221031.htmThe bridge, which had been weakened by the September 18 earthquake, collapsed when a large number of people gathered on it for the meeting. 2. Arunachal Pradesh footbridge collapse (2011): Just a week after the ill-fated Darjeeling incident, a footbridge over Kameng river in Arunachal Pradesh collapsed on October 29, 2011.2022-10-31T16:28+0100rediff-c8b906bd06cb974d6767016ed390131220221031162800