60020 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.radionz.co.nz/news/national/321609/a-year-of-shocks-2016-breaks-nz-quakes-recordA total 32,800 earthquakes were recorded in New Zealand in 2016 - the most ever in a calendar year. A seismograph on display in the GeoNet briefing room. Photo: RNZ / Alison Ballance. GNS seismologist John Ristau said 2011, the year that the deadly magnitude 6.3 shake hit Christchurch, held New Zealand's previous record for the most earthquakes.Sun, 01 Jan 2017 22:08:00 +0100rnzi-3c74851f53d890eca3167d5ee115af9c20170101220800http://www.dailybreeze.com/social-affairs/20170101/asia-america-symphony-guild-shines-spotlight-on-young-music-talentThere was music — a woodwind trio featuring Robert Wakefield-Carl on oboe, Kai Nakkim on clarinet and Kathleen Moran on bassoon, and a string quartet featuring Kaori Shimizu and Marcus Chang on violin, David Nagoshi on viola and Jamie Chung on cello. An informal fashion show featured Renko’s original fashions.Sun, 01 Jan 2017 21:38:00 +0100dailybreeze-39bfbd6904fb360b58ec1489bf7166b520170101213800http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/year-of-rumbles-2016-had-most-quakes-ever-recorded/2016 has been awarded the dubious honour of most quakes ever recorded in GeoNet's 15-year history. GeoNet's national monitoring network recorded 32,828 earthquakes last year. On average the organisation records about 20,000 per year and in 2011, another very active year, 29,000 were recorded.Sun, 01 Jan 2017 19:38:00 +0100newstalkzb-6776c293b1a49d0465d40322c19fd12c20170101193800http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-01/5-blood-boiling-cases-government-overreach?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29The Last 8 Years, my thoughts: The rapid rise of liberal extremism in the US was its downfall. President Obama, the leader of such, created then rode the tsunami wave that crashed into the shores, ending it and his not so glorious ride. It spread to foreign shores in the same manner.Sun, 01 Jan 2017 18:26:00 +0100zerohedge-87d5a0b98e2614f82730e6f88680e9a520170101182600