21930 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.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2112/S00460/earthquake-anniversary-prompts-reminders.htmThe city centre was open for late-night shopping – fortunately, most people had gone home. After an assessment of the damage, a state of emergency was declared at 1am for the CBD area. Two days later on Saturday 22 December the state of emergency lifted at 5.15pm. By Christmas Eve our CBD was back trading as normal.2021-12-19T23:27+0100scoop-co-nz-aa9e534f452416ac045463c7fe0d477020211219232700https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/558071/fiji-no-damage-casualties-immediately-reported-after-magnitude-63-earthquake-occurs-in-south-pacific-ocean-at-around-0428-fjt-dec-20-update-1Event. Authorities in Fiji have not immediately reported any damage or casualties after a magnitude-6.3 offshore earthquake occurred northwest of Vanua Levu at around 04:28 FJT Dec. 20. The US Tsunami Warning System did not issue a tsunami warning, advisory, watch, or threat in connection with the temblor.2021-12-19T20:10+0100garda-com-afa4c61175107067a85e08881a61123820211219201000https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/558066/fiji-magnitude-63-earthquake-occurs-in-south-pacific-ocean-at-around-0428-fjt-dec-20Event. A magnitude-6.3 earthquake occurred off the coast of Fiji's Vanua Levu at around 04:28 FJT Dec. 20. The epicenter was about 88 km (55 miles) west of Labasa, Fiji. The temblor did not immediately trigger the US Tsunami Warning Center to issue a tsunami warning, advisory, watch, or threat.2021-12-19T19:08+0100garda-com-4a663c3b01272d321c811b8177d3b60e20211219190800https://watchers.news/2021/12/19/fiji-m6-3-earthquake-hits-december-19-2021/The epicenter was located about 88 km (55 miles) W of Labasa and 206 km (128 miles) N of Suva, Fiji. There are about 100 000 people living within 100 km (62 miles). 28 000 people are estimated to have felt moderate shaking and 600 000 light. There is no tsunami threat from this earthquake.2021-12-19T18:40+0100watchers-14a20ee54770b749a7c6a94ea806c98d20211219184000