15540 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.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/large-7-5-earthquake-hits-ecuadorA very powerful magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck southern Ecuador in the early hours of Friday (local time) close to the country's border with Peru, although no immediate reports of possible casualties or damage were available. The US Geological Survey said the quake happened 115 kilometres....Fri, 22 Feb 2019 20:27:00 +0100tvnz-bb64454c9e6b3c97f25cc0ca80fa669e20190222202700http://www.therepublic.com/2019/02/22/lt-ecuador-earthquake/LIMA, Peru A very powerful magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck southern Ecuador in the early hours of Friday close to the country’s border with Peru, although no immediate reports of possible casualties or damage were available. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake happened at 10:17 GMT 115....Fri, 22 Feb 2019 20:21:00 +0100therepublic-a21838bf3b517329dced8c615bf86db920190222202100https://koaa.com/ap-world-news/2019/02/22/powerful-7-5-magnitude-quake-hits-eastern-ecuador/LIMA, Peru (AP) — A very powerful magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck southern Ecuador in the early hours of Friday close to the country’s border with Peru, although no immediate reports of possible casualties or damage were available. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake happened at 10:17 GMT 115....Fri, 22 Feb 2019 20:10:00 +0100koaa-7ee980c8f56fef66cf0905516c7d06c920190222201000https://www.theepochtimes.com/deep-7-5-magnitude-quake-hits-ecuador-peru-border-region_2811650.htmlQUITO/LIMA—A deep magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck the Peru-Ecuador border region early on Friday morning, Feb. 22, the U.S. Geological Survey said, causing tremors that the Ecuadorian president said were felt around the country. The quake’s epicenter was in a sparsely populated area 140 miles (224....Fri, 22 Feb 2019 18:20:00 +0100theepochtimes-02ec543be055d651b55d018b516668bc20190222182000