401900 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.wusa9.com/news/central-italy-struck-by-magnitude-62-earthquake/306899231“The whole ceiling fell but did not hit me,” resident Maria Gianni told the Associated Press. “I just managed to put a pillow on my head and I wasn’t hit luckily, just slightly injured my leg.” The picturesque medieval town of about 3,000 residents best known as the home of “pasta all’amatriciana”....Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:47:00 +0200wusa9-c85c13209ea06c72590404fcdff2cb3f20160824154700http://www.thelocal.it/20160824/italys-deadliest-quakes-over-the-last-100-yearsItaly has two fault lines, making it one of the most tectonically active countries in Europe. The country has a long history of earthquakes, with one in Sicily dating back to 1169, killing at least 15,000 people. Here are some of the most destructive since the turn of the 20th century: May 6th 2016....Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:39:00 +0200thelocal-it-5d916865fa7d1033bc96199846efd6b220160824153900http://www.wcnc.com/news/central-italy-struck-by-magnitude-62-earthquake/306840993“The whole ceiling fell but did not hit me,” resident Maria Gianni told the Associated Press. “I just managed to put a pillow on my head and I wasn’t hit luckily, just slightly injured my leg.” The picturesque medieval town of about 3,000 residents best known as the home of “pasta all’amatriciana”....Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:38:00 +0200wcnc-c85c13209ea06c72590404fcdff2cb3f20160824153800http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/us_world/article_837e40f7-d6e7-5e92-a4c3-a2c51c813db2.htmlA magnitude 6 earthquake shook central Italy early on Wednesday, followed hours later by a magnitude 6.8 temblor in Myanmar. Here is a list of some of the world's deadliest earthquakes since 2000: April 16, 2016: A magnitude 7.8 earthquake on Ecuador's central coast near the town of Muisne kills more than 660 people.Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:36:00 +0200brownsvilleherald-6c4a74f5559a3c6fdf721a3a7bcc247c20160824153600