1250970GDACS 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 Know more about the historic Gaziantep Castle destroyed in Turkey earthquakehttps://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/destination-of-the-week/historic-gaziantep-castle-destroyed-turkey-earthquake-8461976/According to a video obtained and verified by BBC , the castle , built during the Roman Empire, is now in ruins with many of its walls collapsed and broken into pieces on the streets below. Some of the fortifications in the “east, south and south-east” of the castle had been destroyed by the....2023-02-23T13:07+0100expressindia-367fd681e21f59454f901fe28fa72bb320230223130700Five cities most vulnerable to natural disastershttps://www.thestatesman.com/world/five-cities-most-vulnerable-to-natural-disasters-1503156928.htmlUnfortunately natural calamities are happening more frequently now than ever before. A majority of the cities that are at risk are located in coastal regions, making them more susceptible to earthquakes, tsunamis, and floods. These kinds of disasters are detrimental to infrastructure growth, economy, and human life as a whole.2023-02-23T13:00+0100thestatesman-7fd6e94baf4be6de8d3220ac0f31f5dc20230223130000Another earthquake hit Tajikistanhttps://www.weeklyblitz.net/news/another-earthquake-hit-tajikistan/New tremors with a magnitude of 5 points were recorded on Thursday, February 23, near Lake Sarez in Tajikistan, informs press service of the Committee for Emergency Situations (CES) of Tajikistan. “At 13:01 local time (10:01 Moscow time) an earthquake was again registered on the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan.2023-02-23T12:56+0100weeklyblitz-11eefe43f6c70f57de286fd343ea939a20230223125600Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’ is origin of nearly 90 per cent of all earthquakes, says UN-ESCAPhttps://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/time-to-build-resilience-in-earthquake-prone-asia-pacific/article66544288.eceThiruvananthapuram. Earthquakes are among the deadliest of natural disasters, and the Asia-Pacific region hosts the two most seismically active fault lines stretching thousands of kilometres and across many national borders. The highest risk is in the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’, where tectonic plate....2023-02-23T12:44+0100thehindubusinessline-feddc38753c07bf81bf05e4aa421a26820230223124400