66389 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.samoaobserver.ws/category/editorial/104502The 29 September 2009 tsunami marked a dark chapter in Samoa’s history after the natural disaster was triggered by two large quakes at that time. The earthquakes measured 8.1 and 8.0 on the Richter scale and led to massive waves of up to 22 meters (72 feet) which upon getting to the shore killed....2023-07-13T19:21+0200samoaobserver-ce164d38afe77ef8a23cd4826f90e35620230713192100https://www.infobae.com/noticias/2023/07/13/temblor-en-chile-sismo-de-33-de-magnitud-en-la-ciudad-de-castro/Un nuevo temblor tomó por sorpresa a la ciudad de Castro , cuando la tierra empezó a moverse a las 12:40 horas (hora local) de este jueves 13 de julio. Según la información preliminar del Centro Sismológico Nacional (CSN), la actividad sísmica tuvo una magnitud de 3.3 y una profundidad de 12.0 kilómetros.2023-07-13T19:08+0200infobae-e13062cb4220817e2684991495bd209c20230713190800https://www.manilatimes.net/2023/07/14/opinion/editorial/protecting-the-pacific-ocean-from-nuclear-contamination/1900491ON March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9 earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan generated a tsunami that devastated everything in its path. Almost 20,000 people were killed in one of Japan's worst disasters. Close to half a million more were forced to leave their homes, many never to return.2023-07-13T18:14+0200manilatimes-59ea5f76328a5475e2065f570a1a160320230713181400https://www.infobae.com/noticias/2023/07/13/santander-registro-un-sismo-de-magnitud-20-este-13-de-julio/En Colombia la intensidad de los sismos se mide con la Escala Macrosísmica Europea (EMS-98), la cual parte de la intensidad 2, descrita como "apenas sentido" por muy pocas personas en reposo; el nivel 3 es catalogado como "sentido levemente" , en donde puede haber balanceo de algunos objetos.2023-07-13T18:11+0200infobae-1ed6b7e0950fc490b0b6f88343a1013220230713181100