778520 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://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-05/03/c_134204527.htmBy Xu Yanyan, Qin Qing. KATHMANDU, May 2 (Xinhua) -- The 7.9-magnitude earthquake which has already claimed more than 7,000 lives last week in Nepal has also destroyed abundant of magnificent historic sites in the country, including temples and ancient towers.Sun, 03 May 2015 00:22:00 +0200xinhuanet_en-21db43ab303f31c3fea59b31ed0e21c420150503002200http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/68225519/Quake-magnitude-5-7-strikes-south-southeast-of-Japan-depth-10-km-USGSJapan’s Miyakojima and Yaeyama areas were placed on high alert with tsunami warnings after a 6.8-magnitude underwater earthquake struck off Taiwan’s coast. An earth tremor of magnitude 5.7 struck 185 km south-southeast of Japan's Izu islands on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey said. The USGS at first put the quake at 6.Sun, 03 May 2015 00:14:00 +0200Stuff-9f328bc6803c785eab6f8f4ce6111f8620150503001400http://zahranicni.eurozpravy.cz/asie-a-australie/119612-japonsko-zasahlo-silne-zemetreseni-a-nasledna-tsunami/Epicentrum se nacházelo 185 jihovýchodně od souostroví v hloubce zhruba 10 kilometrů pod mořským dnem. Původní odhody hovořily ještě o silnějších otřesech. Američtí seismologové uváděli hodnotu 6,1, japonské úřady 5,9 stupně. Čísla byla později revidována.Sun, 03 May 2015 00:06:00 +0200eurozpravy-ab0c432a2504304e21c1d6791ea1ede820150503000600http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2015-05-03/magnitude57-earthquake-strikes-southeast-japan-usgs-says-tsunami-warnings-lifted/1442896An earth tremor of magnitude 5.7 has struck 185 kilometres south-south-east of Japan's Izu islands on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey has said. The USGS at first put the quake at 6.1, but later revised it to a weaker reading. Japanese authorities put the magnitude of the quake at 5.9.Sat, 02 May 2015 23:12:00 +0200radioaustralianews-026e6995ae9a4e10285ce78843295a4920150502231200