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.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/405026/1/.htmlJAKARTA - A moderate earthquake rattled Indonesia's Batu islands off the west coast of Sumatra early Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said.2009-01-26T22:55+0100channelnewsasiaenchannelnewsasia-5a48aff43520dd3bde6df15bbbb90902NaturalDisasters20090126225500http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/24/content_10715548.htmHONG KONG, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale occurred in Timor region at 9:52 Saturday (0152 GMT Saturday), according to a bulletin released by the Hong Kong Observatory. The epicenter was initially determined to be 8.4 degrees south latitude and 125.2009-01-24T16:57+0100xinhuanet_enenxinhuanet_en-1ecfd3a8a134098de5c6ffaad98d558cNaturalDisasters20090124165700http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=50A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the Kepulauan Barat Daya region in Indonesia on Friday, according to the US Geological Survey.2009-01-23T07:54+0100thedailystarBDenthedailystarBD-16550a06775c24b79eab5224232fe676NaturalDisasters20090123075400http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=RSSFeed-Common-Chunk-HT-UI-Common-LatestNews&id=96d1e7a9-ef16-44b2-ac23-0f46ba37466f&MatchID1=4880&TeamID1=1&TeamID2=3&MatchType1=2&SeriesID1=1231&PrimaryID=4880&Headline=Strong+quake+hits+IndonesiaA 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the Kepulauan Barat Daya region in Indonesia , according to the US Geological Survey.2009-01-23T04:47+0100HindustanTimesenHindustanTimes-df56a9ee761b1f52696904f4762cb308NaturalDisasters20090123044700http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20090123-116607.htmlA 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the Kepulauan Barat Daya region in Indonesia this morning. -AFP2009-01-23T01:16+0100AsiaOneenAsiaOne-53c0ea6b12147308e868c60e192a8c99NaturalDisasters20090123011600http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-01-22-voa36.cfm?rss=topstoriesReport says over 250,000 people killed in Cyclone Nargis in Burma and the Sichuan earthquake in China; natural disasters last year affected 211 million people, caused $181 billion in economic losses2009-01-23T00:06+0100voanewsenvoanews-f80eb637a7ef6d87942ec240d4a79d9eNaturalDisastersFoodSecurityFoodAidClimateChangeExternalAffairsEuropeAid20090123000600http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/404340/1/.htmlJAKARTA - A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the Kepulauan Barat Daya region in Indonesia on Friday, according to the US Geological Survey.2009-01-22T23:31+0100channelnewsasiaenchannelnewsasia-8dd97ea90b5f6b8d3110f484cbd1fd35NaturalDisasters20090122233100http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090122/wl_asia_afp/indonesiaquakeAFP - A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the Kepulauan Barat Daya region in Indonesia on Friday, according to the US Geological Survey.2009-01-22T22:59+0100news-yahooennews-yahoo-ed446269268caaf5652277026ddd5c75NaturalDisasters20090122225900