28710 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.masslive.com/worcester/2018/12/central-massachusetts-towns-hit-by-22-magnitude-earthquake-friday.htmlDozens of reports about a possible explosion in Central Massachusetts turned out to be a minor earthquake Friday afternoon, according to the United States Geological Survey. A 2.2 magnitude earthquake was recorded in the Templeton/Gardner area around 12:51 p.m., the agency said.Fri, 21 Dec 2018 21:40:00 +0100masslive-8804fc8a19c08365419630d04cf7cce320181221214000https://www.yucatan.com.mx/internacional/oceania/un-sismo-de-magnitud-5-9-sacude-papua-nueva-guineaBANGKOK, Tailandia. (EFE).- Un terremoto de magnitud 5.9 sacudió hoy la isla de Nueva Bretaña , en el este de Papúa Nueva Guinea , sin que se haya informado en los primeros momentos de víctimas o declarado alerta de tsunami. El Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS), que registra la actividad....Fri, 21 Dec 2018 17:21:00 +0100yucatan-5baa12d700c9262ce859f339c9900d8720181221172100https://themoscowtimes.com/news/powerful-earthquake-strikes-off-russias-far-east-no-tsunami-threat-63922A major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck off Russia's sparsely populated Far East on Thursday, but officials said the threat of a tsunami had passed and no damage was reported. The quake off Russia's Kamchatka peninsula, which was initially measured at magnitude 7.Fri, 21 Dec 2018 15:50:00 +0100themoscowtimes-36cff016ae9dedc1b2f98a9b44adc39320181221155000https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1062265/bali-earthquake-lombok-indonesia-today-tsunami-warning-usgsThe tremor's epicentre was seven miles east-north-east of Sambelia, Indonesia, and happened at 10.43am UTC today at a depth of 6.2 miles, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported, with no early indications of casualties or any risk of a tsunami.Fri, 21 Dec 2018 13:04:00 +0100express-518d79891e0dae9cf77cad1de375192020181221130400