2300 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.chinapost.com.tw/news/archives/asiapacific/2007517/109871.htmA strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck western Laos near the border with Thailand on Wednesday, sending people screaming for cover as far away as Bangkok and Hanoi.2007-05-17T05:00+0200ChinaPost-dfc01b798ec4c06dd753b1f9979901a320070517050000http://bangkokpost.net/News/17May2007_news02.phpA powerful earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale, with its epicentre in northern Laos, jolted many parts of the country yesterday, shaking buildings in downtown Bangkok and toppling spires of ancient temples in Chiang Rai.2007-05-16T21:32+0200BangkokPost-62cc615188c8f4dd10e6f1218823e68c20070516213200http://www.vientianetimes.org.la/FreeContent/Current_earthquake.htmAn earthquake hit several provinces in northern and central Laos around 4pm yesterday. More2007-05-16T18:16+0200vientianetimes-b273fa43310e500979c104fdd5d053f620070516181600http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6661197.stmAn earthquake measuring 6.1 hits western Laos, shaking buildings as far away as Thailand and Vietnam.2007-05-16T14:51+0200bbc-030e1df6230556527710992a1fa46a6b20070516145100