5700 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 http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N30191558.htmWASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - A moderate earthquake of 5.7 magnitude rattled the Nias island area of Indonesia on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The epicenter was 105 miles (170 km) west of Sibolga, Sumatra and 165 miles (270 km) southwest of Medan, Sumatra, at a depth of 18.6 miles (30 km).2006-07-30T13:25+0200alertnet-0437eeaa88706f67e6263d7a5f0eee6c20060730132500http://english.people.com.cn/200607/29/eng20060729_287737.htmlA magnitude-5.6 earthquake rocked Indonesia's Bengkulu province on Sumatra island Friday, causing no damages.2006-07-29T03:47+0200peopledaily-81ea6c60505f59cacf29e962af11b81d20060729034700http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2006-07-27T200317Z_01_JAK22250_RTRUKOC_0_US-QUAKE-INDONESIA.xml&src=rssThe United States Geological Survey put the quake, which occurred at 1116 GMT, at a magnitude of 6.0.2006-07-28T15:52+0200reuters-3f4c3e4efea0c5ce4cae0b9b8f52f61320060728155200http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/AMMF-6S5DGB?OpenDocumentThe Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in over 185 countries. In Brief Operations Update no.2006-07-28T14:00+0200reliefWeb-c999b161fa3188baf3494efc09eb216320060728140000