694550 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.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/59-magnitude-quake-strikes-andaman-nicobar-islands/article17460717.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationA strong earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale today hit the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago. According to National Centre for Seismology, a unit of Ministry of Earth Sciences, the quake, whose epicentre was in the Nicobar islands region, occurred at 8:21 am at a depth of 10 km. However, it was not so powerful as to merit a tsunami warning.Tue, 14 Mar 2017 06:22:00 +0100Hindu-466d0903e0b56d186eeebf66802e9ce120170314062200http://yucatan.com.mx/salud/medicos-niegan-aumento-del-cancer-radiacion-fukushimaTOKIO (AP) — Los 185 casos de cáncer de tiroides registrados en jóvenes en la región japonesa afectada por un desastre nuclear en 2011 no pueden relacionarse con la radiación, según afirmaron el jueves tres médicos. La radiación, señalaron, no es la principal causa de problemas de salud de los habitantes de la zona.Tue, 14 Mar 2017 06:19:00 +0100yucatan-c93c9928327ad193a9da80cc5c196ff720170314061900http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/14/national/museum-tsunami-hit-hawaiian-town-holds-exhibition-2011-tohoku-disaster/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+japantimes+%28The+Japan+Times%3A+All+Stories%29HILO, HAWAII – The Pacific Tsunami Museum on the island of Hawaii, some 6,000 km from Japan, has an exhibition of pictures and videos of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in the Tohoku region. The island, known as the Big Island, is vulnerable to tsunami that originate far from Hawaii.Tue, 14 Mar 2017 06:17:00 +0100japantimes-ce928c591d6befd68718e062da30f7a820170314061700http://www.4-traders.com/TOKYO-ELECTRIC-POWER-COMP-6491247/news/Tokyo-Electric-Power-TEPCO-probes-inside-of-Fukushima-No-1-reactor-with-robot-24034845/The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex on Tuesday began examining the inside of the No. 1 reactor with a self-propelled robot, in an attempt to ascertain the condition of melted fuel debris in order to extract it. During the four-day survey, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.Tue, 14 Mar 2017 06:09:00 +01004-traders-f96fcea7aae045594ca684f0f227cddc20170314060900