259230 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 https://reliefweb.int/report/papua-new-guinea/papua-new-guinea-earthquake-situation-report-20-march-2018544000 PEOPLE AFFECTED. 270000 NEED IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. 18200+ DISPLACED. 4 PROVINCES AFFECTED. HIGHLIGHTS A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea (PNG) on 26 February 2018. Hela and Southern Highlands are the worstaffected provinces. Western and Enga Provinces have also been impacted.Wed, 21 Mar 2018 05:19:00 +0100reliefWeb-2e2561e4819f5fe815cc0ac75749dc7320180321051900http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201803200027.aspxTaipei, March 20 (CNA) Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) Corporation suspended service for 88 minutes, according to THSR, following a magnitude 5.2 earthquake that shook southern Taiwan Tuesday. THSR explained that the suspension of service was undertaken after a reading of 207 Gals, a unit used to measure the acceleration of earthquakes.Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:37:00 +0100focustaiwan-51aa7b5fddda95c3418d9e9e1fe0cc3320180320163700https://www.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=news&p=1378174&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+japantimes+%28The+Japan+Times%3A+All+Stories%29. Kyodo. About 200 U.S. residents have filed a lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. and a U.S. firm, seeking at least $1 billion (about ¥106 billion) to cover medical expenses related to radiation exposure suffered during the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the utility has said.Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:40:00 +0100japantimes-b8a4fe2176ad75737fcc816fa746a28220180320084000https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018636918/limitation-periods-for-chch-quake-due-to-expire-despite-bloody-messIAG told Checkpoint with John Campbell it will be enforcing a 30 June deadline on filing court proceedings against it in response to disputed insurance claims arising from the earthquake. Southern Response has a 4 September deadline. The deadlines are made under the Limitation Act, which restricts....Tue, 20 Mar 2018 06:51:00 +0100rnzi-c0e62d9550c830cb7302f82cf616a08820180320065100