1200GDACS EMM News Feed 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 Quakes hit Papua New Guinea, no reports of damagehttp://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/7/19/worldupdates/2010-07-18T211748Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-502107-3&sec=WorldupdatesJAKARTA (Reuters) - Two big earthquakes struck Papua New Guinea on Sunday but there were no immediate reports of damage, and neighbouring Indonesia lifted a tsunami warning.Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:18:00 +0200thestar-bcc22753451a5e48d0a51833cddee02a20100718181800GLOBAL: Mangroves, much more than a swamphttp://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/25f83faf1444fabb75690ec671a28349.htm15 Jul 2010 18:19:45 GMT Source: IRIN On 26 December 2004 an undersea earthquake off Sumatra - one of the most powerful ever recorded - generated a tsunami that rolled across the Indian Ocean and surged onto the shores of southeast Asia with outrageous force. Coastlines protected by mangroves were the lucky ones.Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:47:00 +0200alertnet-8cfe5091f6b2e7c63a94fbb7366d641b20100715204700Less Than 2 Per cent of Promised Reconstruction Aid for Quake-Devastated Haiti Delivered, Haitian Government Envoy Tells Economic and Social Councilhttp://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/MYAI-87C2MQ?OpenDocument&RSS20&RSS20=FSECOSOC/6441 Economic and Social Council 2010 Substantive Session 31st & 32nd Meetings (AM & PM) Speakers Weigh Lessons Learned at Special Event on Transitioning from Relief To Development in Haiti, Council Also Wraps Up General Debate of Operational Segment Six months after a 7.Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:00:00 +0200reliefWeb-latestUpdates-01210b0f8ae1461e511de549104f86d220100714060000GLOBAL: Health lessons from four big earthquakeshttp://article.wn.com/view/2010/07/13/GLOBAL_Health_lessons_from_four_big_earthquakes/web | DAKAR, 13 July 2010 (IRIN) - IRIN takes a look at some of the health lessons learned from four large earthquakes in the past decade - India (2001), China (2008), Chile (2010) and Haiti (2010). |... (photo: IRIN / Phuong Tran)Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:33:00 +0200antiguanews-d0681658f4479cf0c1d0b85c92079a3420100713233300