1200 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://reliefweb.int/report/world/echo-factsheet-pacific-region-november-2019Introduction. Natural 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 world's worst affected in terms of casualties and people impacted by disasters.Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:53:00 +0100reliefWeb-82f760c4a077c416f753c8bf290db2cf20191107145300https://reliefweb.int/report/fiji/1720-students-participate-live-tsunami-drillSUVA – A total of 1,720 students from four schools in the Vatuwaqa vicinity participated during a live Tsunami Drill today. The drill also marks World Tsunami Awareness Day, which is held annually on the 5th of November. The participating schools included the Fiji School for the Blind (30 students),....Wed, 06 Nov 2019 09:04:00 +0100reliefWeb-e541238fca4b49e1190c09301565c5bd20191106090400https://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 world’s worst affected in terms of casualties and people impacted by disasters.Wed, 06 Nov 2019 05:05:00 +0100EC-cb94d273bd940f428fa87a52f113372e20191106050500http://www.met.gov.my/content/pdf/siaranmedia/english/05%20November%202019-Strong%20Earthquake%20in%20Tonga%20Islands%20at%2005%20November%202019%20on%2006.43am.pdfJMM/POCGN(O)/BK-23B Ruj. Kami: JMM.APL15/756/22/07 Jld.16(34) PRESS RELEASE Strong Earthquake in Tonga Islands A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.3 on the Richter scale occurred near Tonga Islands at 6:43am (Malaysian Local Time) on 5 November 2019 . The epicentre of the earthquake was located at latitude 18.Tue, 05 Nov 2019 04:24:00 +0100met-my-7256c65bbfba7548af0dfe5a398ea7cd20191105042400