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.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/earthquake-rattles-papua-new-guinea/article1589092/?cmpid=rss1T he U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 6.2 earthquake has rattled the South Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea. No casualties or damage was immediately reported. The U.S. Geological Survey statement said the quake struck Wednesday evening under the northwest island of New Britain.Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:15:00 +0200theglobeandmailentheglobeandmail-f29c99f977259e112898e7ad31943e2dNaturalDisasters-9.48177 147.18420100602131500http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/world/Magnitude-6-2-quake-rattles-Papua-New-Guinea/Article1-552169.aspxThe US Geological Survey says a magnitude 6.2 earthquake has rattled the South Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea.Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:47:00 +0200HindustanTimesenHindustanTimes-6600607c7e5207402e45c66c5510306fNaturalDisasters-9.48177 147.18420100602144700http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/moderate-quake-hits-papua-new-guinea-20100603-x05p.htmlAFP A moderate, 5.8-magnitude quake struck Papua New Guinea on Wednesday, US seismologists said, lowering previous estimates. The quake struck at 1928 AEST with its epicentre 25 kilometres west of the town of Kandrian on New Britain island at a depth of about 52 kilometres, the United States Geological Survey said.Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:14:00 +0200smhensmh-3056ff76e9158c3e72a312fe2b217340NaturalDisasters-9.48177 147.18420100602231400http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/earthquake-hits-papua-new-guinea/story-e6frfku0-1225874705440A STRONG 6.2 magnitude earthquake has struck Papua New Guinea, but no tsunami warning was immediately issued. The quake struck at 7.48pm (AEST) with its epicenter located 15km west of the town of Kandrian on New Britain island and at a depth of 40km, the United States Geological Survey said.Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:57:00 +0200NEWScomAUenNEWScomAU-b672c9e97c8436c6e9aaed0c6f805c69NaturalDisasters-9.48177 147.18420100602125700