149330 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.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/22/christchurch-earthquake-aftershock-2010-tremorLast September's New Zealand earthquake was more energetic but caused less damage The earthquake that brought death and destruction to Christchurch on Tuesday was almost certainly an aftershock of a larger quake that rocked New Zealand on 3 September last year.Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:10:00 +0100guardian-99528d5c347d243c7194a1cf4661b23020110223171000http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20110223/wl_csm/365156The Christian Science Monitor - New Zealanders have received a violent wake-up call: It's past time to be prepared for the "Big One" – the long-feared major earthquake authorities have been warning about for years.Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:34:00 +0100news-yahoo-18a53769bbe867d6d87e4eae0cd63d1520110223153400http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/02/23/new-zealand-quake-christchurch.html?ref=rssRescue crews are frantically searching for survivors more than a day after a powerful earthquake hit Christchurch, New Zealand, leaving at least 75 dead and more than 300 missing.Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:08:00 +0100CBC-dfe3b25ad016fcf91f5e4cf5be85ef8920110223150800http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2011/0223/New-Zealand-earthquake-preparedness-Authorities-battled-complacency?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20feeds/world%20%28Christian%20Science%20Monitor%20%7C%20World%29Thanks to modern building codes and sound disaster insurance policies, the damage from Tuesday's devastating New Zealand earthquake was limited.Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:13:00 +0100csmonitor-2a550ad806479ffe6b3595b783f5497b20110223131300