16610 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.dw.com/en/could-a-major-earthquake-soon-strike-south-korea/a-53513252Experts admit that they do not know for sure what is triggering the activity, but there are some theories as to why it is increasing up and down the peninsula. "We have been monitoring the South Jeolla events closely because they are very unusual and have been happening in a very short space of....Wed, 20 May 2020 16:06:00 +0200deutschewelle-en-cc713cdc5546a5d98f04aff88a364ca820200520160600https://www.cbsnews.com/video/earthquake-strikes-tokyo-as-it-braces-for-worst-storm-in-decades/A magnitude 5.7 earthquake was felt throughout Tokyo overnight just as Typhoon Hagibis, the largest storm to hit Japan in over half a century, made landfall as a Category 2 storm west of Tokyo. Ramy Inocencio reports.Wed, 20 May 2020 15:29:00 +0200CBSnews-7d9b4b94a0752a2d29b75062234cc59e20200520152900http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13389036TAKAYAMA, Gifu Prefecture--Municipalities rattled by an earthquake swarm along the borders of Gifu and Nagano prefectures are desperately trying to secure precautionary evacuation sites that put nobody at risk of exposure to the novel coronavirus. On May 19 alone, more than 30 temblors shook Gifu Prefecture, including one at 1:13 p.Wed, 20 May 2020 12:30:00 +0200ajw-babc21cedaf581708832cf88610a4a5a20200520123000https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/05/19/national/dozens-small-quakes-hit-nagano-neighboring-regions/Dozens of small shallow-focus quakes hit Nagano Prefecture and its surrounding regions on Tuesday as the weather agency issued an emergency alert for possible strong temblors. The largest of the quakes, measuring a magnitude 5.3 and a 4 on Japan's intensity scale, hit Takayama in Gifu Prefecture at 1:13 p.Tue, 19 May 2020 15:16:00 +0200japantimes-116f0226ff304c570b8e4d1dac1c6cb520200519151600