4410 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.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/foreign-affairs/2010/04/14/252417/Ma-calls.htm(ChinaPost.com.tw) - President Ma Ying-jeou called a Solomon Islands tribal chief, Stanley Tapeva, yesterday to inquire about his safety after a strong earthquake hit the South Pacific island nation Sunday.Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:25:00 +0200ChinaPost-674361306de3f809b0328eb915a7166820100414042500http://australianetworknews.com/stories/201004/2871606.htm?desktopLast Updated: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:06:00 +1000 Disaster management officials in Solomon Islands say outlying, remote villages have escaped major damage following a strong earthquake, which hit on Sunday night. It struck 100 kilometres southwest of Kira Kira, in the Pacific Ocean.Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:39:00 +0200australianetworknews-6ef637286685906a50bca3d37ad9090820100413083900http://www.newschannel5.com/global/story.asp?s=12290884A powerful earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands on Sunday, but a monitoring agency said a tsunami was not expected.Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:27:00 +0200newschannel5-5982a2876b88cd52ed983616bcabf52720100412172700http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100411/wl_afp/solomonsquakeAFP - A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands in the western Pacific on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, but there was no tsunami alert or reports of damage.Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:22:00 +0200news-yahoo-cbb7b4ef825e9a3b95ce7912c7e73d9920100412132200