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 materialhttp://sanfrancisco.ibtimes.com/articles/236023/20111023/strong-earthquake-hits-turkey-up-to-1-000-feared-killed.htmAs many as 1,000 people were feared killed Sunday when a powerful earthquake struck Turkey, collapsing dozens of buildings and pulling down phone and power lines in the southeast of the country, officials and witnesses said.Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:08:00 +0200ibtimes-cnzhibtimes-cn-7f307ae13d298cda8faed5eab3537a4539.9293 32.8533http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/236013/20111023/earthquake-turkey.htmA powerful earthquake that shook southeastern Turkey on Sunday may have killed as many as 1,000 people as it triggered the collapse of dozens of buildings across the region, media reported the Kandilli Observatory as saying.Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:58:00 +0200ibtimes-cnzhibtimes-cn-412c1c23d4604c3db3cb6628be71b10639.79156 29.97950639.901112 40.859619http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/236004/20111023/earthquake-turkey.htmA powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 shook southeastern Turkey on Sunday, Turkey's Kandilli Observatory said, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according to a local mayor.Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:37:00 +0200ibtimes-cnzhibtimes-cn-9727eef34c79659247e1f51ec5765caa39.79156 29.97950639.901112 40.859619http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/235997/20111023/earthquake-turkey.htmA magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit near Van in southeastern Turkey on Sunday, Turkey's Kandilli Observatory and Research Institute said.Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:57:00 +0200ibtimes-cnzhibtimes-cn-68ebc9bb337100b13b2fb2420e6b1f8b39.79156 29.97950638.48914 43.4088939.901112 40.859619http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/235378/20111021/san-francisco-earthquake-san-antonio-earthquake.htmTwo relatively low-magnitude earthquakes struck the San Francisco area on Thursday night.Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:59:00 +0200ibtimes-cnzhibtimes-cn-f962eda4bc21d9377cb6bc83cd5adc8937.7483 -122.413http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/232577/20111017/volcanic-eruption-el-hierro-sea-stain.htmThe volcanic eruptions off the coast of the Canary Island of El Hierro continue as the sea stain grows.Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:30:00 +0200ibtimes-cnzhibtimes-cn-4298b95c6b9e73c18d91ecb94d2d873ahttp://www.ibtimes.com/articles/232577/20111017/volcanic-eruption-el-hierro-sea-stain.htmThe volcanic eruptions off the coast of the Canary Island of El Hierro continue as the sea stain grows.Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:06:00 +0200ibtimes-cnzhibtimes-cn-7f3cd5827a6cd37b05855d9257c4afc3http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/232192/20111017/bureau-of-meteorology-predict-more-than-12-cyclones-to-hit-australia-this-season.htmOil, gas, coal and iron ore mines face possible destruction in the coming months, not to price fluctuations and the ongoing global fiscal crisis, but to a potentially brutal cyclone season brought by a returning La Niña.Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:58:00 +0200ibtimes-cnzhibtimes-cn-c2611639298829e33e22b5166da79084-35.3499 149.042http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/232192/20111017/bureau-of-meteorology-predict-more-than-12-cyclones-to-hit-australia-this-season.htmOil, gas, coal and iron ore mines face possible destruction in the coming months, not to price fluctuations and the ongoing global fiscal crisis, but to a potentially brutal cyclone season brought by a returning La Niña.Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:57:00 +0200ibtimes-cnzhibtimes-cn-37934d4e224e7229842798e5fe7c93c8-35.3499 149.042http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/231467/20111014/volcanic-eruption-canary-islands-canaries-sea-stains.htmThe volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands has produced two large sea stains off the southern coast of El Hierro.Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:43:00 +0200ibtimes-cnzhibtimes-cn-96f4a550c2a7525273b9b19c38cc7178