2400 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.jamaicaobserver.com/history/history_231376?profile=1470Today is the 259th day of 2021. There are 106 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT. 1994: A federal court jury in Anchorage, Alaska, orders Exxon Corp to pay US$5 billion in punitive damages to Alaskan fishermen and natives for the March 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. OTHER EVENTS.2021-09-16T09:10+0200jamaicaobserver-9cb368a4e3ab891c5ebf11ecf741579520210916091000https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/141282/Moderate-magnitude-49-earthquake-120-km-southeast-of-Lorengau-Papua-New-Guinea.htmlAn earthquake of magnitude 4.9 occurred only 16 minutes ago 120 km southeast of Lorengau, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency reported. The quake hit at a moderately shallow depth of 57 km beneath the epicenter near Lorengau, Manus District, Manus Province,....2021-09-13T18:49+0200volcanodiscovery-1a8c3590975dbe33e6b5698f0ea2fc9320210913184900https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/6405551/mag4quake-Sep-13-2021-Papua-New-Guinea-Bismarck-Sea.htmlAn earthquake of magnitude 4.9 occurred only 16 minutes ago 120 km southeast of Lorengau, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency reported. The quake hit at a moderately shallow depth of 57 km beneath the epicenter near Lorengau, Manus District, Manus Province,....2021-09-13T18:49+0200volcanodiscovery-2672d9753abad236d70a38b0bb1cc72f20210913184900https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/523226/papua-new-guinea-magnitude-50-offshore-earthquake-occurs-near-new-britain-island-at-around-1456-sept-11Event. A magnitude-5.0 offshore earthquake occurred near New Britain Island at around 14:56 Sept. 11. The epicenter was about 137 km (85 miles) southeast of Kimbe. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 10 km (6 miles), and light shaking was probably felt throughout the island.2021-09-11T07:44+0200garda-com-338c92eb658d9a7f521d683a436ff78620210911074400