4111160 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://news.az/news/death-toll-in-haiti-from-powerful-earthquake-rises-to-1419At least 1,419 people are dead and more than 6,900 injured after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, the country’s civil defense agency said late Monday, Anadolu Agency reported. The epicenter of Saturday’s quake was 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) northeast of Saint-Louis-du-Sud at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles).2021-08-17T08:55+0200news-az-ad0f017a49dd759fb88fe92c7f33cd0220210817085500https://www.theepochtimes.com/magnitude-6-9-earthquake-strikes-south-sandwich-islands-region-emsc_3950962.htmlAn earthquake of magnitude 6.9 struck the South Sandwich Islands region, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said on Monday. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles), EMSC said. The quake occurred in the middle of the south Atlantic ocean, 2,960 km (1,839 miles) east-north-east of Punta Arenas, Chile, EMSC added.2021-08-17T06:28+0200theepochtimes-4bc70439602ca52497a350c8529469c520210817062800https://reliefweb.int/report/india/disaster-governance-asia-pacific-future-pathways-south-and-southeast-asiaExecutive Summary. South Asia is highly exposed and vulnerable to the impacts of natural hazards. It has been affected by several large-scale disasters over the past two decades, including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Multiple small and medium disasters have also....2021-08-17T05:55+0200reliefWeb-d2ffb798b76b28980701cb2c3061c79620210817055500https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/death-toll-in-haiti-from-powerful-earthquake-rises-to-1-419/2337404More than 6,900 people injured after 7.2 magnitude quake hit Haiti on Saturday, says civil defense agency. ANKARA. At least 1,419 people are dead and more than 6,900 injured after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, the country’s civil defense agency said late Monday. The epicenter of Saturday’s quake was 12 kilometers (7.2021-08-17T01:23+0200aa-en-929d576630bb6687d6aed13169e2562220210817012300