6700 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.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=163001A 6.3 magnitude earthquake was recorded south of Fiji islands by the United States Geological Survey, late Monday night.Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:09:00 +0100fijitimes-b3ae527201bd5f7fce75ad978cdfd92e20101229210900http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2010/12/29/Two-quakes-rumble-in-Vanuatu/UPI-99821293627592/PORT VILA, Vanuatu, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck the island nation of Vanuatu in the southern Pacific Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:51:00 +0100upi-097d5ea3c6faa2de640ee324f36dbd8a20101229145100http://dalje.com/en-world/two-quakes-rumble-in-vanuatu/329772PORT VILA, Vanuatu, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck the island nation of Vanuatu in the southern Pacific Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The earthquake's epicenter was about 72 miles west of Isangel and 134 miles south of Port Vila, the island's capital, the USGS said.Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:46:00 +0100javno-en-15628af4647ec06c05c805af212a319c20101229144600http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-12/29/c_13669536.htmAn earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale struck off the Pacific island country of Vanuatu on Wednesday.Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:30:00 +0100xinhuanet_en-996abc16deb6d7d3e817f0965da2957220101229143000