5620 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.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=&t=01&m=A06&aa=1GREECE'S earthquake monitoring and civil protection systems were defended last week after scientists accused state organisations of a delayed response to the strong earthquake that hit Leonidio, in the southeastern Peloponnese, in the early hours of January 6.2008-01-18T18:47+0100AthensNews-2af66d7a5962c8096ed2c99152ea1c6320080118184700http://article.wn.com/view/2008/01/12/Quake_hits_Greek_islands/Jan 6, 2008 9:44 PM An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale struck Greece on Sunday, shaking people out of bed and sending panic-stricken villagers into the streets but there were no immediate reports Los Angeles - A strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck on Wednesday near a chain of....2008-01-13T01:32+0100icelandnews-26cd5ee77c98ed64215a00c1356c4aa820080113013200http://139.191.254.108/Wires/ap-en/080112/ap-en-67c9b92a3af751185892d66b368c8418.htmlATHENS, Greece (AP) _ A strong earthquake rattled Greek islands close to Turkey Saturday, but no casualties or damages were reported. The earthquake, with a magnitude of 5.2, occurred at 1706 local time (1506 GMT), 220 kilometers (137 miles) northeast of Athens, between the islands of Lesvos and Chios, the Athens Geodynamic Institute said.2008-01-12T19:59+0100ap-en-67c9b92a3af751185892d66b368c841820080112195900http://article.wn.com/view/2008/01/10/Cyprus_eyes_Greece_s_water_to_slake_thirst/(CNN) -- A powerful earthquake measured at magnitude 6.1 and centered about 75 miles southwest of Athens startled residents of southern Greece Sunday morning, but there were - An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale struck Greece on Sunday, shaking people out of bed and Jan 6, 2008 9:44 PM An earthquake measuring 6.2008-01-10T11:04+0100icelandnews-c61dc726646e3d5b662ac21d1c0b2d0a20080110110400