234280GDACS EMM News Feed 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 Crete earthquake: Greek holiday island hit by large 6.4 magnitude tremor sparking tsunami warninghttps://www.heart.co.uk/news/uk-world/crete-earthquake-holiday-island-hit-by-large/The quake struck the east coast of the island at a depth of 10km under the village of Palekastro, according to the US Geological Survey. The village is 84km (52 miles) from Agios Nikolaos, which is a popular destination for British tourists. It comes three weeks after another tremor killed a man on the island and damaged hundreds of buildings.2021-10-12T15:11+0200heart-69753407518f8d800d7af4edf52715ce202110121511006.3-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Greek Island Of Crete, None Injuredhttps://www.ndtv.com/world-news/6-3-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-off-greek-island-of-crete-2572918Athens: A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the Greek island of Crete Tuesday, the Athens Observatory said, with initial media reports suggesting no one was hurt. The quake -- the second strong tremor to hit Greece's largest island in just over two weeks -- struck at 0924 GMT with an....2021-10-12T15:06+0200ndtvnews-256aabd9b91699047c777247b5ec7bd4202110121506006.3R Earthquake in Crete: Small tsunami is expected on the south coasthttps://www.inewsgr.com/162/63R-Earthquake-in-Crete-Small-tsunami-is-expected-on-the-south-coast.htm- Πηγή: Πρώτο Θέμα Seismologist Gerasimos Papadopoulos called on citizens to stay off the coast.2021-10-12T13:54+0200inews-gr-04bd4ab2bff1959131bf28279768168d20211012135400Holiday destination Crete hit by second powerful earthquake in two weekshttps://www.cityam.com/holiday-destination-crete-hit-by-second-powerful-earthquake-in-two-weeks/Holiday destination Crete has been struck by another strong earthquake just two weeks after one which killed a man. Today’s earthquake, which reached a magnitude of 6.3, according to reports, “was felt all over the island”, Crete’s deputy regional governor, Yiannis Leondarakis, told Greece’s state-run radio.2021-10-12T13:43+0200cityam-c0b8746638a66c647510279993442a1c20211012134300