480860 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.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVOD-777GWB?OpenDocumentGeneral Situation People are starting to clear the rubble after an 8.4 earthquake struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, causing scores of buildings to collapse. The initial earthquake was followed by a series of aftershocks ranging in intensity from 4.9 to 7.8.2007-09-19T16:44+0200reliefWeb-30a1f90a6722438b1d7ecb622151be6620070919164400http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=85466A strong earthquake rocked parts of Indonesia's Sumatra Island on Wednesday, US Geological Survey said on its web site. There are no immediate reports of any casualties or damage. The 6.1-magnitude hit 115 miles northwest of Bengkulu and was felt in cities along Sumatra's west coast. The temblor w...2007-09-19T16:40+0200novinite-3df651b144b5c3f0a6a8ff2ef9ca7ea220070919164000http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Sep/19/br/br6095124738.htmlPosted at 1:25 a.m., Wednesday, September 19, 2007 6.1 earthquake rocks Indonesia's Sumatra Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia — A strong earthquake rocked parts of Indonesia's Sumatra island today, but there were no reports of any damage. The 6.1-magnitude hit 115 miles northwest of Bengkulu, the U.2007-09-19T14:04+0200HonululuAdvetrtiser-898dd183aa5306a28e08fa723f8606b920070919140400http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Wednesday/NewsBreak/20070919190147/Article/index_htmlA strong earthquake rocked Indonesia’s island of Sumatra today, but no tsunami warning was issued and no damage or casualties were reported. The 6.4-magnitude earthquake, centered 26 kilometres under the seabed some 164 kilometres northwest of Lais in Bengkulu province, struck at 2:27 pm (0727....2007-09-19T13:12+0200nst-bb7956831eaa421b65789a4c863e277c20070919131200