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://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90853/6488039.htmlA strong earthquake jolted the southern part of Russia's Lake Baikal area Wednesday morning, Russian news agencies reported. There are no reports of casualties so far. The earthquake, measuring 6-7 on the Richter scale, occurred at10:35a.m. local time (0135 GMT) in Irkutsk, according to the Irkutsk seismic station.2008-08-27T12:12+0200peopledailyenpeopledaily-a973a13cb42d0b3a18cdd184a6e3880cNaturalDisasters20080827121200http://rss.xinhuanet.com/newsc/english/2008-08/27/content_9722816.htmMOSCOW, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- A strong earthquake jolted the southern part of Russia's Lake Baikal area Wednesday morning, Russian news agencies reported. There are no reports of casualties so far. The earthquake, measuring 6-7 on the Richter scale, occurred at10:35a.m. local time (0135 GMT) in Irkutsk, according to the Irkutsk seismic station.2008-08-27T10:46+0200xinhuanet_enenxinhuanet_en-af05f5ceffb2ac6bd9aa8d2bea1544a3NaturalDisasters20080827104600http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=60A strong 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit the southern part of Russia's Lake Baikal on Wednesday, causing brief power and phone outages in the nearby city of Irkutsk according to Ria news agency.2008-08-27T08:16+0200thedailystarBDenthedailystarBD-661fbfbea6c74c518ce6c4367a8322a4NaturalDisasters20080827081600http://www.dawn.com/2008/08/27/rss.htm#13MOSCOW, Aug 27 (AFP) A strong 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit the southern part of Russia's Lake Baikal Wednesday, causing brief power and phone...2008-08-27T07:23+0200dawnendawn-0a289b1502bdb3bf5d169e6d0fda40e5NaturalDisasters20080827072300http://rss.xinhuanet.com/newsc/english/2008-08/27/content_9721151.htmHONG KONG, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale hit over Lake Baykal, Russia at 9:42 a.m.(0142 GMT) on Wednesday, according to a bulletin released by the Hong Kong Observatory. The epicenter was initially determined to be 51.7 degrees north latitude and 104.2 degrees east longitude, about 230 km west of Ulan-Ude.2008-08-27T05:40+0200xinhuanet_enenxinhuanet_en-e054bcfda6b70499e3b4be80d02c7aa8NaturalDisasters20080827054000