135660 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.bangkokpost.com/news/special-reports/1162457/after-the-quakeThere's an old saying that Thailand is a paradise on the blue planet. A place of natural beauty and wonder, one could easily believe that Mother Nature is kind to the people here. But in the past few years, mounting cases of natural disasters -- rising sea levels, flooding and a fear-rattling....Sun, 18 Dec 2016 02:54:00 +0100BangkokPost-d3efd5bee0c8b247c788ae8be2f27ccd20161218025400http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/320705/png-provinces-assessing-impacts-of-7-point-9-quakeProvincial administrations in New Ireland and New Britain of Papua New Guinea are assessing impacts of last night's big earthquake. A magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck about 50 kilometres east of Taron, on the south eastern coast of New Ireland, shortly before midnight NZT, or around 9pm PNG time.Sun, 18 Dec 2016 02:03:00 +0100rnzi-b88aeed779be475c3ca74adf85ba133a20161218020300http://elcomercio.pe/mundo/actualidad/terremoto-79-papua-nueva-guinea-causa-alerta-tsunami-noticia-1954176Un terremoto de magnitud 7,9 en las costas de Papúa Nueva Guinea hizo temer este sábado un tsunami pero luego la alerta fue levantada, anunció el Centro de Alerta de Tsunamis del Pacífico (PTWC, por sus siglas en inglés). El PTWC había estimado que el temblor podía generar olas de entre uno y tres....Sun, 18 Dec 2016 02:00:00 +0100ElComercio-b1535368437f0ec032eb67027c4418df20161218020000http://alekhbariya.net/ar/node/25197ضرب زلزال بقوة 8 درجات على مقياس ريختر أمس السبت سواحل بابوا غينيا الجديدة، وفق ما أعلنت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأمريكية. ووقع الزلزال على بعد 60 كيلومترا شرق تارون في جزيرة نيو أيرلندا ، على عمق 73.4 كيلومترا. ودفعت قوة الزلزال مركز الإنذار من "تسونامي" في المحيط الهادىء إلى إطلاق تحذير من المد البحري في عدة مناطق ساحلية.Sun, 18 Dec 2016 02:00:00 +0100ekhbariya-c760c9343ebbf02830f5183296f45aef20161218020000