4200 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/asia/australia/2010/12/26/285124/Major-earthquake.htm(ChinaPost.com.tw) - A major 7.6-magnitude quake struck at a shallow depth under the sea near Vanuatu in the western Pacific early Sunday local time, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:57:00 +0100ChinaPost-f30a1f8fe015bae5f659fe9140b6dc2320101227135700http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/other/2010/12/27/285195/73-quake.htm(ChinaPost.com.tw) - A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the western Pacific nation of Vanuatu on Sunday, triggering a small tsunami exactly six years after giant waves killed 220,000 people around the Indian Ocean.Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:57:00 +0100ChinaPost-298f3b0dcd1cf03a2583e887f921626820101227135700http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=57879No injury or damage after 7.3 quake off Vanuatu Posted at 22:41 on 26 December, 2010 UTC It appears that no serious injuries or damage was caused by a powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck off Vanuatu on early on Sunday. The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said on Sunday the....Mon, 27 Dec 2010 03:21:00 +0100rnzi-ea994dc879ad7f8304a83328bb941e0d20101227032100http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Warning-as-earthquake-hits-New.6671983.jpMasonry and glass rained down near post-Christmas shoppers as a magnitude 4.9 earthquake rocked Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island yesterday.Mon, 27 Dec 2010 01:01:00 +0100TheScotsman-f8714d54770455735eeb7df7d0301d0c20101227010100