37940 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://old.news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110823/sc_livescience/whyvirginiaquakeshookentirecoastLiveScience.com - The quake that hit the East Coast on Tuesday afternoon was notable, but not unprecedented, for the eastern half of the country, geoscientists say.Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:16:00 +0200news-yahoo-b662e8375f6207e20a1c2c38e694c96620110823231600http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=ODgzNzA0NTE5NQ==SENDAI, Japan: US Vice President Joe Biden yesterday praised Japan's courage and resolve as he visited its tsunami-shattered coast, where...Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:01:00 +0200kuwaittimes-dcc01f20eccfc5ed4327efa3e8f9505920110823230100http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2029320/East-Coast-Earthquake-hits-Virginia-aftershocks-Washington-DC-New-York.html?ITO=1490Buildings in the major cities throughout the north east - including the Pentagon and the White House - had to be evacuated with the 5.9 magnitude earthquake, which originated in Virginia, shaking areas from as far north as Boston all the way to Anderson in South Carolina.Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:19:00 +0200mailonsunday-e7ada5998605ab75cc19956bbcae00b520110823221900http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2029320/East-Coast-Earthquake-hits-Virginia-aftershocks-Washington-DC-New-York.html?ITO=1490Several government buildings have been evacuated after an earthquake struck Washington, D.C. It's the strongest quake to hit the Virginia area since 1897.Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:43:00 +0200dailymail-8f68b59b98463fe0f060bbadc09846b220110823214300