162340 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://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/390701/cs/1/One person has died while over 20 have been injured in an earthquake in western China.2008-08-06T15:44+0200AfghanistanSun-ba954b82198682a7cbf7af33648170e520080806154400http://www.namibian.com.na/2008/August/world/081CE05DF1.htmlWednesday, August 6, 2008 - Web posted at 9:09:50 AM GMT 6,0 quake hits China's Sichuan province BEIJING - A powerful earthquake hit China yesterday in the same region where almost 70 000 people were killed in May, and on a day the Olympic torch relay passed through. The quake killed one person and injured 23 others, local media reported.2008-08-06T11:41+0200namibian-3b8e40c5020264f4efddccc2fc89b46920080806114100http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/06/report-3-dead-in-china-from-quake-aftershock-1/The death toll from a powerful aftershock in a region of central China devastated by an earlier earthquake has risen to three, and more than 3,000 houses have been destroyed, China's state media reported.2008-08-06T11:10+0200washtimes-eda0fd8128f767a1069b87cbe903c09420080806111000http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2326353.htmChina's state media is reporting that yesterday's earthquake in the country's southwest killed three people and injured more than two dozen others.2008-08-06T10:37+0200radioaustralia-2106f8de2650096469ab4a16f79b9e5420080806103700