1100 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.outlookindia.com/international/extreme-weather-events-in-2024-the-new-normalThe effects of global warming and climate change are slowly becoming visible with great energy. If we look at the year 2024 alone, many incidents have occurred in the country and around the world, which environmentalists are considering as examples of climate change caused by global warming.2024-06-18T03:36+0200outlookindia-7e299e9104434c8c10bc6d2432d6d7db20240618033600https://www.mdpi.com/2504-477X/8/6/229In medium- to high-rise buildings, single shear walls (SSWs) are often used to resist lateral force due to wind and earthquakes. They are designed to dissipate seismic energy mainly through plastic hinge zones at the base. However, they often display large post-earthquake deformations that can give....2024-06-17T10:20+0200mdpi-2bbba39f844a3bfce0c95675f4a536d720240617102000https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2406/S00489/royal-new-zealand-navy-frigate-returns-to-the-capital-in-less-challenging-times.htmPhoto/Supplied. One of the Royal New Zealand Navy’s Anzac-class frigates, HMNZS Te Kaha, will this week be making its first port visit to Wellington since 2016. Te Kaha was last in the capital following the humanitarian assistance and disaster response it provided during the Kaikōura earthquake.2024-06-16T23:40+0200scoop-co-nz-e2e16c878efff889b4609618a8f5065220240616234000https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cascadia-subduction-zone-imaging-1.7235949?cmp=rssNew research offers a clearer picture of a fault line hundreds of kilometres long off the West Coast that is predicted to generate a major earthquake and tsunami commonly known as "The Big One." The study confirms that the northern part of the fault, close to Vancouver Island and Washington, is most likely to produce a major earthquake.2024-06-16T18:04+0200CBC-721c072cb17c87a976c82b98039ce0fb20240616180400