3971360 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://www.ibtimes.com/multiple-earthquakes-strike-west-pacific-one-california-too-6-hours-2712438In the last 24 hours, three major earthquakes in the Pacific ring of fire and 19 earthquakes with magnitude more than 4.5 happened around the world, according to the U.S. Geological Survey data. The three major earthquakes happened in the New Caledonia, California and the Northern Mariana Islands,....Wed, 29 Aug 2018 14:43:00 +0200ibtimes-a2e2035d1685e9977500d34776885d3e20180829144300http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Two_dead_255_injured_in_Iran_earthquake_999.htmlA strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck western Iran near the border with Iraq early Sunday, killing two people and injuring more than 250, officials said. The shallow quake hit 26 kilometres (16 miles) southwest of the city of Javanrud in Kermanshah province, the US Geological Survey said, near....Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:55:00 +0200terradaily-fd4f79886ea8b1106eaf42e1e628c79120180828125500https://reliefweb.int/report/iran-islamic-republic/information-bulletin-n-1-iran-quakeA magnitude 5.9 earthquake on the Richter scale hit, Tazehabad a city and the capital of Salas-e Babajani County, Kermanshah Province, Iran, on Sunday August 26, 2018 at 02:43 local time, killing 2 people and injuring 267. The epicenter of the earthquake was at 34.63o degrees north and 46.22o degrees east at the depth of 8 km.Tue, 28 Aug 2018 08:48:00 +0200reliefWeb-73835e6955042d68eecc50ceca7d868c20180828084800https://www.newsweek.com/59-magnitude-earthquake-hit-close-iran-iraq-border-1091649An earthquake rattled Iran’s Kermanshah province early Sunday and left hundreds injured. There are plans for at least five rescue teams to search for casualties after the 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck close to the Iran-Iraq border, near the city Tazehabad, the Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday.Tue, 28 Aug 2018 04:23:00 +0200newsweek-c6006d5e7bc40394dad2684abe6a1bf220180828042300