43130 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.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-1ee38d6d3d0a442da0e0faaa2bb150ec20181205084100https://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-1ee38d6d3d0a442da0e0faaa2bb150ec20181205083100https://reliefweb.int/map/world/tsunami-pacific-ocean-regional-southeast-loyalty-islands-76-tsunami-travel-time-05AN EARTHQUAKE WITH A PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE OF 7.6 OCCURRED. SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS AT 0418 UTC ON WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 5 2018. BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA... HAZARDOUS TSUNAMI WAVES ARE. FORECAST FOR SOME COASTS. TSUNAMI THREAT FORECAST...UPDATED TSUNAMI WAVES REACHING 1 TO 3 METERS ABOVE THE TIDE LEVEL ARE.Wed, 05 Dec 2018 06:19:00 +0100reliefWeb-be2865f1e5a2767a5ab27ca7ffd2f16520181205061900https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12171764&ref=rssThis Christmas, the Herald and The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ are working together to bring the Gift of Sight to the Pacific, where four out of five people who are blind don't need to be. Alarmingly, an increasing number of these are young people, suffering from diabetes-related eye disease. At 2.Wed, 05 Dec 2018 02:56:00 +0100nzherald-455823c37e418c1f4f5475c47da822e620181205025600