700 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://en.mehrnews.com/tag/Natural+DisastersTEHRAN, Jun. 02 (MNA) – A total of 171 people have died from south Brazil's worst climate disaster on record in the Rio Grande do Sul state, the state's civil defense agency said. TEHRAN, May 27 (MNA) – The Papua New Guinea (PNG) National Disaster Center (NDC) has confirmed that more than 2,000....2024-06-07T09:26+0200mehrnews-en-39322ece39c0412d3c4d3f5e00e6b9c220240607092600https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9423522/mag4quake-Jun-5-2024-PAKISTAN.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Rawalpindi , a city of 1.7 million people in Pakistan , in 79 km (49 mi) distance east of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. Many smaller towns and villages are located closer to the epicenter and might have experienced stronger shaking.2024-06-05T14:11+0200volcanodiscovery-b914d068e805769c98d60685ed6da9f920240605141100https://tribune.com.pk/story/2469667/light-tremor-shakes-many-neighbourhoodsKARACHI: The light earthquake tremors felt in the city at 6:36pm on Monday created panic in many neighbourhoods. It was the third low-intensity shaker this year, which can be taken as a wakeup call to check the city’s earthquake preparedness. Given the faulty structures of the city, ageing buildings....2024-06-04T07:56+0200tribune-88535b760e3173c81b82f93d2dc2d8df20240604075600https://pakobserver.net/earthquake-shakes-parts-of-karachi/in Karachi are relatively rare compared to northern Pakistan, particularly those closer to tectonic plate boundaries. Karachi is situated on the edge of the Indian tectonic plate, which is relatively stable compared to areas along plate boundaries where earthquakes are more common.2024-06-03T16:55+0200pakobserver-9daaf2604c1f9c089878bdb4b43ba7a320240603165500