6120 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.bernama.com/en/general/news.php?id=1870820KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 16 -- A moderate earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 on the Richter scale occurred at 3.22 pm today in Mindanao, the Philippines, according to the Malaysian Meteorological Department. It said in a statement the location of the earthquake was 123 km southwest of Cotabato City in the Philippines.Sun, 16 Aug 2020 11:24:00 +0200bernama-2cde937b6a7950a8ee2a5d9a78ba179a20200816112400https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/511721Professor Elhanan Bar-On, the director of the Center for Disaster Medicine & Humanitarian Response at Sheba Medical Center, has won the Yigal Alon Prize for pioneering excellence. As a Lt. Colonel in the IDF Medical Corps Reserves, Prof. Bar-On participated in numerous IDF humanitarian aid missions.Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:58:00 +0200israelnationalnews-20e41ac56bd7f73e75bc9c660bd2494520200813115800https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1320992/magnitude-5-5-quake-hits-waters-off-sabtang-batanesMANILA, Philippines — A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck off Sabtang Island, Batanes on Thursday morning, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. There were no immediate reports of damage or injury from the quake, which occurred at 6:32 a.m.Thu, 13 Aug 2020 04:44:00 +0200inquirer-d85e816bdd5e72de0f42acaf4213760f20200813044400http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-08/13/c_139286597.htmMANILA, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 shook Batanes province in the northern Philippines on Thursday, the Philippine Institute of Seismology and Volcanology (Phivolcs) said. The institute said the quake, which struck at 6:32 a.m.Thu, 13 Aug 2020 02:42:00 +0200xinhuanet_en-4e7f4fefff3a96f953f4fba32733870720200813024200