500 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://ec.europa.eu/echo/where/asia-and-pacific/pacific_enNatural disasters ranging from cyclones to floods, droughts and earthquakes frequently occur in the Pacific region. The pacific island countries (including Papua New Guinea, Fiji Islands, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands and Vanuatu) rank among the highest in the world in terms of numbers of casualties and people affected by disasters.Wed, 30 Jan 2019 04:25:00 +0100EC-24e8af5edce06b18300ef2c3425df29020190130042500https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/world/asia/magnitude-62-quake-strikes-near-fiji-1548572923A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit near the Pacific island nation of Fiji just before 8:00 local time on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. Shortly after the area felt another smaller tremor which registered 5.2 magnitude. Both earthquakes were located just south of the island between Fiji and....Sun, 27 Jan 2019 10:03:00 +0100thefinancialexpress-e1cf59271a3a3d384d80ed15f313df4720190127100300https://en.trend.az/world/other/3011093.htmlA 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit near the Pacific island nation of Fiji just before 8:00 local time on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, Trend reported citing Xinhua. Shortly after the area felt another smaller tremor which registered 5.2 magnitude.Sun, 27 Jan 2019 03:42:00 +0100trendnews-az-71248c040ce6cd91dbf6c41db4178f2720190127034200https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/6-2-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-fiji-island-119012700041_1.html. A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit near the nation of Fiji just before 8:00 local time (2:30 am IST) on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. Shortly after, the area felt another smaller tremor, which registered 5.2 magnitude. The earthquakes hit just south of the island between Fiji and Tonga, and were detected at a depth of over 500 km.Sun, 27 Jan 2019 03:17:00 +0100business-standard-477a844e54b3681196784f760bf5029620190127031700