395240GDACS EMM News Feed 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 Ecuador hit by another major earthquake as death toll nears 600http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ecuador-hit-by-another-major-earthquake-death-toll-nears-600-1556179A powerful fresh earthquake measuring 6.0 magnitude has struck Ecuador as rescue workers continued to search for survivors of an earlier quake which killed almost 600 people. The latest earthquake's epicentre was 62 miles (100km) north-northwest of Portoviejo and hit on Thursday night (21 April). An aftershock measuring 5.Fri, 22 Apr 2016 11:23:00 +0200ibtimes-uk-b0ebad4854effa22ab90a93ed78f6bce20160422112300Powerful earthquake jolts disaster-stricken Ecuadorhttp://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/210819/PanARMENIAN.Net - A powerful earthquake measuring 6.0 magnitude struck off Ecuador's disaster-stricken coast on Thursday, April 21 as survivors of an earlier deadly quake that killed 587 people clamored for food, water and medicine in parts of the disaster zone, Reuters reports.Fri, 22 Apr 2016 11:23:00 +0200panarmenian-en-7b10b12ee27d8880469ffa4c15382b1320160422112300Séisme au Japon : manque d’accès aux soins de base à Kumamotohttp://www.msf.fr/actualite/articles/seisme-au-japon-manque-acces-aux-soins-base-kumamotoBien que les premiers séismes se soient produits il y a une semaine, la terre tremble parfois encore dans les préfectures de Kumamoto et d’Oita. En date du 20 avril, on dénombrait 103 000 déplacés à Kumamoto et 600 à Oita. Les estimations font état de 58 victimes et de 1100 blessés dans les deux préfectures.Fri, 22 Apr 2016 11:09:00 +0200MSF-fr-70a2af576f405aee7398f8023c3c54df20160422110900"Our quarrel is not with Japanese people," says former comfort woman, donating to quake victimshttp://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2016/04/116_203215.htmlKim Bok-dong, 90, contributed 1 million won and Gil Won-ok, 88, donated 300,000 won to the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan on Wednesday for relief efforts in Japan. "Our quarrel is with the Japanese government, not ordinary Japanese people," Kim said at the most recent Wednesday rally.Fri, 22 Apr 2016 11:03:00 +0200koreatimes-24bc71bac7ba3b7da092ed7a3e4bbeec20160422110300