1130 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.earthtimes.org/articles/show/309210,tropical-cyclone-rene-batters-tonga.htmlWellington - Tropical Cyclone Rene on Monday battered the northern islands of Tonga at category 4 strength and headed toward the capital Nuku'alofa, according to reports reaching New Zealand. Few details were available of damage to the islands of Vav...Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:10:00 +0100earthtimes-604fde932e929657cad436f63274911920100214221000http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017811023A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off Tonga Saturday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of injury and damage and a tsunami alert was not issued. - (AHN)Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:00:00 +0100AHN-95030c2259877806c1f065aa78286f9420100213200000http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_World&set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20100213120342808C958576A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit near the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga, the US Geological Survey reported, but no tsunami alert was issued and there were no immediate reports of injury or damage.Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:20:00 +0100Star-ed725e8c5227969f962e249b8275ddd920100213122000http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_World&set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20100213120342808C958576A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit near the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga, the US Geological Survey reported, but no tsunami alert was issued and there were no immediate reports of injury or damage.Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:16:00 +0100iol-ed725e8c5227969f962e249b8275ddd920100213121600