18441850 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.dw.com/en/heavy-rain-hampers-japan-quake-rescue/a-19193631?maca=en-rss_top_news-13961-xml-mrssTens of thousands of people forced from their homes by back-to-back earthquakes in southern Japan spent a wet and windy night in temporary shelters on Saturday night. A magnitude 7.3 earthquake shook Kumamoto province on the southwestern island of Kyushu Saturday at 1:25 a.m. local time. It struck slightly more than 24 hours after a magnitude-6.Sun, 17 Apr 2016 09:30:00 +0200deutschewelle-mk-3d16b357619fb5fe581ba337cdcded5320160417093000http://www.dw.com/en/major-earthquake-strikes-ecuador/a-19193681?maca=en-rss_top_news-13961-xml-mrssThe quake, which was the strongest to hit Ecuador since 1979, flattened hundreds of buildings across several towns and cities. A local official in the town of Pedernales, near the epicenter, appealed for earth-moving equipment and additional rescuers as local teams struggled to cope with the disaster.Sun, 17 Apr 2016 09:30:00 +0200deutschewelle-mk-fd00e8e79bbc31a8ed47ccd009308f0020160417093000http://www.bbc.com/arabic/worldnews/2016/04/160416_japan_earthquake_rescuers_in_race_against_timeImage caption شارك زلزال السبت تسبب في انهيارات أرضية وأضرار جسيمة في إقليم كوماموتو. قال شينزو آبي، رئيس وزراء اليابان، إن فرق الإنقاذ تسابق الزمن للعثور على ناجين من الزلزال القوي الذي ضرب البلاد، في ظل توقعات بهبوب عاصفة وسقوط أمطار غزيرة وانخفاض درجات الحرارة ليلا. واعترف آبي بأن عمليات الإنقاذ في منطقة كيوشو "سوف تكون صعبة جدا" خلال الليل.Sun, 17 Apr 2016 09:29:00 +0200bbc-arabic-148d59ef422243ced53d143b58fa9ee520160417092900http://www.elpais.cr/2016/04/17/al-menos-77-muertos-por-terremoto-de-78-grados-en-la-costa-de-ecuador/Quito, 17 abr (Agencias/ElPaís.cr).- El número de los muertos a raíz del terremoto de magnitud 7,8 en la escala abierta de Richter en Ecuador alcanzó 77 personas, anunció en rueda de prensa el vicepresidente del país andino, Jorge Glas. “Al momento la cifra de fallecidos confirmados llega a 77 y....Sun, 17 Apr 2016 09:29:00 +0200elpais-cr-19565e0a8f918f6bb12c26b73b0dfe2b20160417092900