13820 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.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0715/breaking33.htmAn earthquake struck the south of New Zealand today, triggering a tsunami warning and causing minor damage but no injuries.2009-07-19T22:38+0200irishtimes-a30a6f7e186fb01778f65bc68d4df92a20090719223800http://7thspace.com/headlines/314752/tsunami_symposium_sees_noaa_research_forecast_in_action.htmlDuring a session on tsunami forecasting during an international meeting in Russia on July 15, scientists saw NOAA’s Internet-based tsunami research forecast system in action. A tsunami was generated by a large earthquake off the southwest coast ...2009-07-18T17:19+02007thspace-d0ab2502d72888f9bbd2e30c352052ee20090718171900http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6703769.htmlAnother aftershock measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale struck Fiordland, New Zealand's lower SouthIsland, on Saturday morning, the 14th since a 7.8 magnitude quake occurred in the area on Wednesday night. The latest aftershock occurred at 8:25 a.m. on Saturday local time (20:25 GMT Friday), the New....2009-07-18T04:19+0200peopledaily-460967857c395b4357045dad94473ece20090718041900http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/443028/1/.htmlWELLINGTON : Residents in New Zealand were warned to be prepared for a civil emergency as strong aftershocks continued to rock the region two days after a powerful 7.8 earthquake.2009-07-17T19:12+0200channelnewsasia-cf8ce9807cbe103526a2acc6df28c13e20090717191200