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.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=586436-point-2 quake hits PNG and Solomon Islands Posted at 22:44 on 07 February, 2011 UTC The US Geological Survey says a magnitude-6.2 earthquake hit south of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands this morning but no tsunami alert was issued. The USGS says the quake hit 110 kilometres southwest of....Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:09:00 +0100rnzienrnzi-fe05396d22d176e461944473a2f27c72NaturalDisasters-9.62239171888818 160.1584116512420110208000900http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/magnitude62-quake-near-solomons-20110208-1akif.htmlA magnitude-6.2 earthquake has rumbled under the Pacific Ocean south of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands but no tsunami alert was issued.Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:49:00 +0100smhensmh-cda2b817e18113efe24f557ecf18fc78NaturalDisasters-9.62239171888818 160.15841165124-9.48177 147.18420110207224900