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Green Earthquake alert in Italy on 09/06/2012 02:04 UTC
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  • Articles: 171
  • Articles about casualties: 3 (1.8%)
  • Articles in last hour: 0

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The headlines below have been automatically extracted by the Europe Media Monitor.

Mentioning 'Italy'

Italy’s Billion-Euro-A-Day Ministries
Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:18:00 +0200   corriere-en (en)

Half of €283 billion annual spending goes on administration ROME – Ministerial expenditure has again come under pressure to ensure the success of the first stage of the spending review. The campaign should now guarantee savings of €5 billion instead of €4.2 billion.

People and organisations: Antonella Baccaro  Enrico Bondi  Mario Monti 

Another 4.5-magnitude quake hits northern Italy
Sat, 09 Jun 2012 11:19:00 +0200   ruvr-en (en)

A 4.5-magnitude earthquake struck off northern Italy early Saturday at a depth of 7.1 km, Italy’s Agi news agency reports. The quake hit the Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia regions at 04:04 a.m. local time, Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) says. Its epicenter was located not far from the town of Claut.

People and organisations:

Earthquake in Italy kills 15 injures over 100
Sat, 09 Jun 2012 08:49:00 +0200   irishsun (en)

CAVEZZO, Italy , May 29 (Xinhua) -- Fifteen people were killed and over 100 people were injured by a 5.8-magnitude quake that hit central Italy on Tuesday, Civil Protection Department confirmed. The ...

People and organisations: Xinhua News Agency  Civil Protection 

Death toll in Italy earthquake rises to 6
Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:34:00 +0200   irishsun (en)

MILAN, May 29 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were killed in the earthquake of 5.8 magnitude that rocked central and northern Italy on Tuesday morning, while more were injured, according to Italian ...

People and organisations: Alberto Silvestri  Xinhua News Agency 

3 reportedly killed in Italy earthquake
Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:34:00 +0200   irishsun (en)

MILAN, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Three people were killed in the earthquake of 5.8 magnitude that rock central and northern Italy on Tuesday morning, according to Italian media reports. Some people were ...

People and organisations: Alberto Silvestri  Xinhua News Agency 

One reportedly dead in Italy earthquake
Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:34:00 +0200   irishsun (en)

MILAN, May 29 (Xinhua) -- One person was reportedly killed inthe earthquake of 5.8 magnitude that rock central and northern Italy on Tuesday. Some people were also injured in the second quake that ...

People and organisations: Alberto Silvestri  Xinhua News Agency 

6.0-magnitude quakes jolts Italy CENC
Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:34:00 +0200   irishsun (en)

BEIJING, May 29 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted Italy at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday (Beijing Time), the China Earthquake Networks Center said. The epicenter, with a depth ...

People and organisations: Xinhua News Agency 

Italy: Solidarity Fund - help in the event of a major natural disaster
Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:27:00 +0200   reliefWeb (en)

Source: European Union Country: Italy , World Before Italy was struck by an earthquake at the end of May, it already suffered from flooding in Tuscany and Liguria in October 2011. Luckily, the EU is able to help restore the damage from the floods with more than €18 million from the European Solidarity Fund.

People and organisations: Member States  Manuel Fernandes  European Union  European Commission 

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Social media analysis

Experimental feature

The information below is extracted by an experimental JRC system to analyze Twitter messages for the occurance of secondary effects for earthquakes and tsunamis. This feature is currently not available for other disaser types.

Twitter reaction

The graph above shows the number of tweets per minute just before and just after the earthquake. The higher the values and the larger the difference between before and after, the more the earthquake was felt by the local population. Note that after 20 to 30 minutes, many tweets will come from areas not near the earthquake. These indicate general interest in this event rather than local impact.

Tweets mentioning secondary effects

The graph above shows tweets for keywords related to common secondary effects. A large difference between tweets counts before and after the event for any of these keywords is a good indication that the secondary effect occurred.