36344260 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://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/03/13/2011031301080.htmlThe massive earthquake that hit Japan on Friday was so powerful that it changed the shape of the country's coastline and shifted the earth's axis. Geophysicist Kenneth Hudnut, who works for the U.S. Geological Survey, told CNN that the quake moved part of Japan's land mass by nearly 2.5 me...Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:52:00 +0100chosun-123ecc4ba98a4817a979badd947ecd3f20110313095200http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4041361,00.htmlThe death toll from the earthquake and tsunami that struck northeast Japan could top 10,000, national broadcaster NHK quoted a police official as saying. "The death toll is almost certain to rise above 10,000," said Naoto Takeuchi, chief of Miyagi prefecture's policy force, according to NHK.Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:51:00 +0100yediotaharonot-ef7c4c5d84cb9d8bdf68cd16d6d3d03820110313095100http://www.newschannel5.com/story/14237460/powerful-quake-tsunami-kills-hundreds-in-japanThe death toll in Japan's earthquake and tsunami will likely exceed 10,000 in one state alone, an official said Sunday, as millions of survivors were left without drinking water, electricity and proper food along the...Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:49:00 +0100newschannel5-5ae71f81f49213609a0c4c5c9c5f3e4c20110313094900http://www.corkman.ie/breaking-news/world-news/nuclear-reactor-meltdown-likely-2577377.htmlJapanese officials are struggling with a growing nuclear crisis and the threat of multiple meltdowns, two days after the country's north-eastern coast was savaged by a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami.Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:49:00 +0100corkman-2e805625f2d51ecb488901bc687f44e820110313094900