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 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10671445&ref=rssAbout 60 streets across Christchurch are still without water this morning as aftershocks continue to shake the city after Saturday's earthquake.Council staff are working around the clock to restore water to between 15 and 20 per...Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:10:00 +0200nzheraldennzherald-207a1df2b7696be56e7dabd82d6a5557NaturalDisasters-43.5235 172.63820100906031000http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/08/3005474.htmThe mayor of Christchurch says a major aftershock in the New Zealand city this morning is a huge setback to the recovery effort in the wake of Saturday's earthquake.Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:02:00 +0200abc-auenabc-au-13e1494268b36a7ec5a53aa128878b08NaturalDisasters-43.5235 172.63820100908010200http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/04/3002787.htmA 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit Tonga geologists said, but there was no immediate tsunami warning.Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:28:00 +0200abc-auenabc-au-1150aaf0ed360ea86c4a664fc2bc61c0NaturalDisasters-21.136 -175.21620100904142800http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2010-09/05/content_11257666.htmTo the amazement of seismologists, they missed a magnitude-8.0 earthquake last year.Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:33:00 +0200chinadailyenchinadaily-28ba358d994213aa245c4deabc1b7ff4NaturalDisasters20100905033300http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2010-09/05/content_11257666.htmTo the amazement of seismologists, they missed a magnitude-8.0 earthquake last year.Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:50:00 +0200chinadailyenchinadaily-15c7d09959520beff085b7c4fb215d69NaturalDisasters20100906035000http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-09/04/c_13478544.htmA magnitude-6.1 earthquake hit Tonga around 0852 GMT on Saturday, said the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The epicenter was monitored at 17.27 degrees south latitude and 174 degrees west longitude with the depth of 37.1 km.Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:40:00 +0200xinhuanet_enenxinhuanet_en-de240cba9ac6d832f7737dd9ce6e8d0aNaturalDisasters-21.136 -175.21620100904144000http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=55745Fiji and Tonga unscathed in earthquakes Posted at 01:10 on 08 September, 2010 UTC There are no reports of damage in Fiji or Tonga after a series of earthquakes this morning. The US Geological Survey says a 6.3 magnitude quake, earlier reported as 6.4, struck the Fiji region just after 4 o’clock, between Fiji and Wallis and Futuna.Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:19:00 +0200rnzienrnzi-30e84e55ee13c55cc8d64820bd9b9b43NaturalDisasters-18.1426 178.43120100908031900