458200GDACS 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 Moderate magnitude 4.0 earthquake 54 miles south of Carlsbad, Texas, United Stateshttps://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/219102/Moderate-magnitude-40-earthquake-54-miles-south-of-Carlsbad-Texas-United-States.htmlThe United States Geological Survey reported a magnitude 4.0 quake in the United States near Carlsbad, Eddy County, New Mexico, only 17 minutes ago. The earthquake hit in the afternoon on Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023, at 5:58 pm local time at a very shallow depth of 3.1 miles.2023-08-23T01:20+0200volcanodiscovery-41f6fcc84ae040a91e2add9f64a57b3e20230823012000Storm Hilary moves north after drenching Southern California, Southwesthttps://www.fijitimes.com/storm-hilary-moves-north-after-drenching-southern-california-southwest/By Bryan Woolston and Rollo Ross. CATHEDRAL CITY, California (Reuters) – Storm Hilary flooded streets, downed power lines and triggered mudslides across Southern California on Monday after unleashing record-breaking downpours overnight, but no U.S. deaths were attributed to the storm and fears of disaster dissipated.2023-08-23T00:21+0200fijitimes-c8097e75db8b9f09e5b47686f418f65c20230823002100California's massive clean-up after Tropical Storm Hilary underway, as crews dig out cars buried in mud and trapped residents are rescued in worst rainfall in nearly a centuryhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12433185/Hurricane-Hilary-cleanup-recovery.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490Hilary was the first Tropical Storm to hit Southern California in 84 years and prompted flood watches and warnings in half a dozen states. The threat of flooding in states further north was highest across much of southeastern Oregon into the west-central mountains of Idaho, with the potential of localized thunderstorms and torrential rains Tuesday.2023-08-22T22:01+0200dailymail-a788eeb2bd1b3676b9b3088d24ee402020230822220100California caught in crosshairs of weather extremes in a warming worldhttps://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4164833-california-caught-in-crosshairs-of-weather-extremes-in-a-warming-world/Southern Californians are surfacing from a historic weekend of weather extremes after what may have been the first tropical storm to hit California’s coast in 84 years. Tropical Storm Hilary, a probable combination of natural El Niño patterns and human-induced warming, dumped 2.2023-08-22T21:37+0200thehill-78583de4fc030de8f36475f612b36ee520230822213700