11410 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.downtoearth.org.in/news/governance/as-told-to-parliament-august-9-2023-at-least-2-800-people-died-of-lightning-every-year-from-2019-2022-says-minister-91127Nearly 2,880 people died due to lightning strikes in various states of the country in 2021, Kiren Rijiju, Minister of Earth Sciences, told the Lok Sabha. At least 2,800 people died every year from 2019-2022. While 2,862 died due to lightning in 2020, the figure rose to 2,876 in 2019.2023-08-11T08:14+0200downtoearth-0206f040fc4bdca9ea30ebf7cbbd458620230811081400https://www.mid-day.com/news/world-news/article/japan-earthquake-of-magnitude-6-0-hits-hokkaido-23303029According to GFZ, a German Research Centre for Geosciences, the earthquake occurred at 5.44 am, local time, in the Hokkaido region of Japan Representational Image An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck the Hokkaido region in Japan on Friday at 5.44 am (local time), according to GFZ, a German....2023-08-11T06:12+0200mid-day-18de0f533f38916c7a352b4e611a1b6020230811061200https://www.mid-day.com/news/world-news/article/us-earthquake-of-magnitude-4-3-hits-central-california-23303028According to the US geological survey, the earthquake occurred at 19:17:18 (UTC) on August 10 with the epicenter located at 6 kilometers NorthWest of California's Parkfield Representational Image An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 jolted Central California of the United States on Thursday (local time),....2023-08-11T06:05+0200mid-day-42905cba22480ea09c9a568689bb729e20230811060500https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/india-news-shimla-kalka-road-at-nh-5-closed-after-landslide-in-himachals-solan-5332349.htmlSolan (Himachal Pradesh) [India], August 11 (ANI): Shimla-Kalka road on the National Highway-5 was closed after a landslide occurred in Himachal Pradesh's Solan district in the early hours of Friday, police said. "Today Aug 11, at around 2:35 am to 2:40 am, due to rains, Shimla National Highway 5,....2023-08-11T05:01+0200latestly-940d33b1caef2cd7ff157d3a81f8351420230811050100