*3.3. Identification of Storms with Severe Impacts on Beaches*

Digitized newspaper archives covering large time periods constitute a rich source of socioeconomic and environmental information. In particular, archives of regional newspapers are of great value for identifying the occurrence of non-recorded past and present extreme events of natural phenomena, as well as for obtaining a rough idea of their damage intensity and their socioeconomic impacts, which is of great importance for coastal managers [23,24]. Nevertheless, despite its considerable usefulness in this sense, this type of information should be considered with due caution [25]. With this in mind, a Boolean search with different combinations of keywords was developed in the JABLE database to detect dates on which the press reported wave storms causing damages on beaches, or nearby infrastructures in the study area, to be used as a source of evidence of the impact of severe damaging events.
