164100GDACS 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 Blackpool hit by yet another earthquake in just a few dayshttps://metro.co.uk/2019/08/26/blackpool-earthquake-felt-fracking-site-kirkham-layton-mereside-10631557/Blackpool and the surrounding areas have been hit by a tremor that was big enough to wake people up (Picture: PA) Another earthquake has been felt close to the Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool. Hundreds of people are believed to have felt the quake that was big enough to wake people up. Early indications suggest it was a magnitude 2.Mon, 26 Aug 2019 10:37:00 +0200metro-uk-bc6ecbdde20bf797840889008b39adc220190826103700Could We Be Wrong About Where "The Big One" Will Strike? Earthquakes Are Occurring In Areas We Never Expectedhttps://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-24/could-we-be-wrong-about-where-big-one-will-strike-earthquakes-are-occurring-areasThe second came just before 8 a.m. on Friday. The magnitude-4.2 shook the area, centered less than a mile southwest of Wednesday’s temblor. More than 1,000 people reported feeling the quake across Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri, according to the USGS. It wouldn’t be the last quake on Friday. A magnitude-3.Sun, 25 Aug 2019 06:30:00 +0200zerohedge-1292a85a591ae4b28c2b6dd21b868fbf20190825063000A look back at 6.0 earthquake that hit Napa five years agohttps://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/08/24/south-napa-quake-five-years-later/The 7.1 and 6.4 Ridgecrest earthquakes in July — and the 5.0 in the same area Thursday — may be an almost ongoing wake-up call to Kern County residents, but unless Napa and to a lesser extent Vallejo residents hit the snooze button, their shake-up was Aug. 24, 2014. The South Napa earthquake along the San Andreas Fault reached 6.Sat, 24 Aug 2019 22:23:00 +0200eastbaytimes-d4eacbf4c5f733ef8037577f6920214120190824222300Sismo de magnitud 5,2 sacude la región de Coquimbo, norte de Chilehttps://www.debate.com.mx/mundo/Sismo-de-magnitud-52-sacude-la-region-de-Coquimbo-norte-de-Chile-20190824-0041.htmlSantiago de Chile.- Un sismo de magnitud 5,2 afectó este viernes la región de Coquimbo, en el norte de Chile, sin que se informara de desgracias personales o daños materiales. Según el Centro Sismológico Nacional, dependiente de la Universidad de Chile, el fenómeno telúrico se sintió a las 22.33 hora local (02.Sat, 24 Aug 2019 17:49:00 +0200debate-08f29c0ace00455c06ce37faa018a78d20190824174900