5710 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/90001/90777/90851/6781441.htmlAn earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck off the Santa Cruz islands in Solomon Islands on Monday evening, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. There were no reports of damages or casualties. The quake, occurred at 08:37 p.m. Monday Solomon Islands local time (09:37 GMT Monday), was at....Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:52:00 +0200peopledaily-5e830005dcc06f6764bb26ec4f7c82d720091012145200http://da.feedsportal.com/c/851/f/10840/s/68365e6/l/0L0Sirishtimes0N0Cnewspaper0Cbreaking0C20A0A90C10A0A80Cbreaking20Bhtm/ia1.htmUndersea earthquakes caused panic in the South Pacific today, sending islanders fleeing to higher ground on fears of a second devastating tsunami in as many weeks, but a series of waves proved to be tiny and harmless.Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:35:00 +0200irishtimes-f8c78acc49ddbbb962a30fd8611a501d20091009183500http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/289173,two-large-quakes-trigger-tsunami-warnings-scramble--2nd-update.htmlSydney - Residents of the South Pacific island nations of Vanuato and Fiji scrambled early Thursday for high ground after meteorologists issued a tsunami alert in the wake of two massive earthquakes. The PacificTsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii issued...Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:04:00 +0200earthtimes-b88628d99c58cb329d9ad06bb9e05e0520091009180400http://www.alertnet.org/db/an_art/55076/2009/09/8-170210-1.htmWhen earthquakes struck beneath the South Pacific ocean on Thursday, islanders fled to high ground, fearing a repeat of last week's devastating tsunamis that killed some 150 people on Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga. Three subsea quakes, measuring 7.8, 7 and 7.Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:27:00 +0200alertnet-eb31eb13a381237fb6cc6814ba64410920091009172700