1910 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.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=439570Update: 12:38PM A STRONG 6.6 magnitude earthquake was recorded in the Papua New Guinea region last night, occurring at a depth of 10km. The Seismology Unit of the Mineral Resources department in Suva said the earthquake was located 141km East from Kimbe, PNG; 1042km Northwest from Honiara, Solomon Islands; and 3252km Northwest from Suva.Tue, 27 Mar 2018 02:45:00 +0200fijitimes-58aa5e3ee4f5281c00ed6cfd21771dd220180327024500http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=439316Update: 3:06PM THE Tonga Islands region recorded a 5.3 magnitude earthquake at about 2pm today. The Seismology Unit of the Mineral Resources department based in Suva said the earthquake occurred at a depth of 10km. It was located 231km South-southeast from Nuku'alofa, Tonga; 637km South-southwest from Alofi, Niue; and 923km Southeast from Suva.Sun, 25 Mar 2018 05:19:00 +0200fijitimes-9b8a3e07d83eb6eb464e51904819c63e20180325051900http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=439211Update: 11:05AM TWO earthquakes were recorded in the Fiji region this morning, occurring slightly over an hour apart from each other. At about 7.08am, the first earthquake was recorded measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale. The seismic activity occurred at a depth of 551km, and was located 94km....Sat, 24 Mar 2018 00:16:00 +0100fijitimes-0bcc780a97ba11de300562d6eccf80bb20180324001600http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=438601Update: 5:31PM A 5.3 MAGNITUDE earthquake occurred in the Vanuatu region this afternoon. The seismology Unit of the Department of Mineral Resources reported that the earthquake occurred at a depth of 110km at 2:36pm. It was registered at 247km North Northwest from Port Vila, Vanuatu; 745km North....Mon, 19 Mar 2018 06:55:00 +0100fijitimes-1d465d9e97f1d3b80c763d0b75539f6c20180319065500