2000GDACS EMM News Feed 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 Pacific Beat: Thursdayhttps://www.abc.net.au/radio-australia/programs/pacificbeat/pacific-beat-thursday/10588306On the program today: Reports houses have been damaged and destroyed on a remote island in Vanuatu's south by yesterday's tsunami, triggered by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake; Concerns locals in remote parts of Vanuatu didn't receive any tsunami warnings, but there were sirens and door-to-door checks in....Thu, 06 Dec 2018 00:25:00 +0100radioaustralianews-fr-85093ab4784066123b47d7df228f57e020181206002500PANIC AND TREMORS ‘Immediate’ mass evacuations as tsunami waves spotted off New Caledonia THE Pacific island, which is governed by France, shook as the tremor hit 900 miles off the east coast of Australia. People living in the French territory have been urged to seek shelter more than 300 metres from the shore.https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7901327/caledonia-earthquake-tsunami-waves-spotted/The Ring of Fire follows the edge of the Pacific tectonic plate. Dubbed a "horseshoe-shaped geological disaster zone", the fault lines are the most seismically active on Earth. It spreads across 25,000 miles (40,000km) from the southern tip of South America all the way to New Zealand, and includes....Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:58:00 +0100thesun-3d0e8a22896039810929c5c21802c8e020181205135800Earthquake Hits Pacific Ocean, Triggering A Tsunamihttps://www.newsweek.com/earthquake-wednesday-has-pacific-islands-tsunami-alert-including-hawaii-1244708A 7.6-magnitude earthquake in the South Pacific Ocean triggered a tsunami warning for the island of New Caledonia. Tsunami waves could quickly reach 3 meters high at New Caledonia and Vanatua. A shallow earthquake shook approximately 95 miles southeast of the Loyalty Islands Wednesday afternoon local time, prompting the emergency notice.Wed, 05 Dec 2018 08:41:00 +0100newsweek-1ee38d6d3d0a442da0e0faaa2bb150ec20181205084100Earthquake Hits Pacific Ocean, Triggering A Tsunamihttps://www.newsweek.com/earthquake-wednesday-has-pacific-islands-tsunami-alert-including-hawaii-1244708A 7.6-magnitude earthquake in the South Pacific Ocean triggered a tsunami warning for the island of New Caledonia. Tsunami waves could quickly reach 3 meters high at New Caledonia and Vanatua. A shallow earthquake shook approximately 95 miles southeast of the Loyalty Islands Wednesday afternoon local time, prompting the emergency notice.Wed, 05 Dec 2018 08:31:00 +0100newsweek-USA-1ee38d6d3d0a442da0e0faaa2bb150ec20181205083100