17800 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.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-17/wa-earthquakes-explained/10255300The largest was the 6.5-magnitude quake at Meckering in 1968 that injured 20 and left hundreds of families homeless. But Western Australia is in the middle of a tectonic plate, so how do earthquakes even happen here in the first place? No fault line doesn't mean no worries.Mon, 17 Sep 2018 08:15:00 +0200abc-au-c93772726938c31c3c93f0b10fdd765220180917081500http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-17/wa-earthquakes-explained/10255300on Sunday afternoon. West Australian town of Walpole, about 430 kilometres south-east of Perth, with tremors felt as far away as Perth and Albany No serious damage was reported, but the quake was considered "uncommonly large". Some of the largest recorded earthquakes across Australia have happened in WA.Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:30:00 +0200abc-au-fa7c93a81125d38d0808ae096930347d20180917073000https://peru.com/noticias-de-islas-salomon-87358El USGS situó el hipocentro a 53 kilómetros de profundidad bajo el lecho marino, a 128 kilómetros al suroeste de Chirovanga, y a 523 al sudeste de Honiara. Un nuevo terremoto de 6,9 grados de magnitud se ha producido en las Islas Salomón, un día después de otro sismo de 7,7 grados Richter, informó....Sun, 09 Sep 2018 23:03:00 +0200peru-d9503db18bc71d2cea6bd5d435a800e620180909230300https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/287777-sismos-paises-anillo-fuego-pacifico?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=allDesde el pasado 6 de agosto, el 'Anillo de Fuego del Pacífico', el área geográfica del planeta que abarca unos 40.000 kilómetros entre el este de América y el oeste de Asia, ha tenido una fuerte actividad sísmica, con sismos superiores a 6 de magnitud.Thu, 06 Sep 2018 21:23:00 +0200rt-es-8849b100bb4667911f925f324be9ad3820180906212300