900 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.todayonline.com/Commentary/EDC100731-0000051/When-will-the-next-big-quake-hit?It has been a busy year, earthquake-wise. Over just the past fortnight or so, several large quakes, all close to magnitude 7.5, have struck the South Pacific region: One near Papua New Guinea on the night of July 18 and three in close succession in a remote, offshore region in the Philippines on July 23.Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:16:00 +0200todayonline-0115078442920f638b11aa394b54983e20100731001600http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=35495&Cr=disaster&Cr1=Drawing from the experience of January’s catastrophic earthquake which devastated Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, the city’s mayor today told a United Nations-backed conference in Shanghai that local governments must be better prepared for disasters.Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:45:00 +0200un-org-62033b0480bf871327e896c063fe79b720100730224500http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/07/30/10/earthquake-jolts-parts-mindoro-batangasMANILA, Philippines - A magnitude 4.6 earthquake jolted parts of Mindoro and Batangas provinces on Friday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported.Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:13:00 +0200abs-cbnnews-f3c0d191b76fa75973bb4687e445ada220100730051300http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/restofasia/Quake-hits-Philippines/Article1-579632.aspxA strong undersea tremor hit southern Philippines today but no tsunami alert was issued, the US Geological Survey said.Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:38:00 +0200HindustanTimes-ad5f6b4a69011a04c813f7245db1904d20100729203800