541240 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.brownsvilleherald.com/news/us_world/papua-new-guinea-assesses-extent-of-damage-from-strong-quake/article_bd8b1027-a556-5d45-b609-5dfb627856da.htmlWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Papua New Guinea authorities were assessing the extent of damage Wednesday from a powerful earthquake that rattled coastal towns the previous evening. The magnitude 7.5 quake struck around 11 p.m. Tuesday at a relatively shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), according to the U.Wed, 15 May 2019 05:07:00 +0200brownsvilleherald-da5afb2037c54f8cf5af8dc55136948420190515050700https://chinapost.nownews.com/20190515-571196WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Papua New Guinea authorities are assessing the extent of damage from a powerful earthquake that rattled coastal towns the previous evening. The magnitude 7.5 quake struck around 11 p.m. Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.Wed, 15 May 2019 05:06:00 +0200ChinaPost-e18499320ee4127833942e1f1576568020190515050600https://www.theherald.com.au/story/6124948/papua-new-guinea-assesses-quake-damage/?cs=7579Papua New Guinea authorities are assessing the extent of damage from a powerful earthquake that rattled coastal towns the previous evening. The magnitude 7.5 quake struck around 11pm on Tuesday, according to the US Geological Survey. It was offshore about 45 kilometres northeast of Kokopo, which has about 26,000 people.Wed, 15 May 2019 05:05:00 +0200theherald-au-b0617ffdf5518b3875fc1d24f5a766b920190515050500https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/389212/magnitude-7-point-5-quake-hits-off-papua-new-guineaThe magnitude 7.5 quake - at a depth of 10km - hit offshore about 50km east of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea's New Britain island on Tuesday just before 11pm local time, the United States Geological Survey said. It triggered an initial tsunami warning, though local officials said no waves were observed....Wed, 15 May 2019 05:02:00 +0200rnzi-09d808fbff528bf9230830a9b8f71bc020190515050200