2900 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.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/422791/png-magnitude-53-offshore-earthquake-occurred-off-bougainville-island-at-around-1723-bst-dec-29Magnitude-5.3 offshore earthquake strikes off Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, at 1723 BST Dec. 29. No immediate reports of damage.Tue, 29 Dec 2020 08:34:00 +0100garda-com-ecdc442781aff949c7765b0fa114c04820201229083400https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/117711/Significant-magnitude-51-earthquake-106-km-southwest-of-Arawa-Papua-New-Guinea.html5.1 quake 29 Dec 5:23 pm (GMT +11) A magnitude 5.1 earthquake near Arawa, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, was reported 40 minutes ago by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), considered one of the key international agencies that monitor seismic activity worldwide.Tue, 29 Dec 2020 08:17:00 +0100volcanodiscovery-92d11fe5f63e18b0559aa4b193defa0520201229081700https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/117709/Light-49-quake-hits-near-Arawa-Bougainville-Papua-New-Guinea.html4.9 quake 29 Dec 5:13 pm (GMT +11) A magnitude 4.9 earthquake near Arawa, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, was reported only 25 minutes ago by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), considered one of the key international agencies that monitor seismic activity worldwide. The earthquake occurred at an intermediate depth of 94.Tue, 29 Dec 2020 07:46:00 +0100volcanodiscovery-4f3eb9ad98f2c708abc8789682e0191d20201229074600https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/117678/Light-magnitude-48-quake-hits-110-km-southwest-of-Arawa-Papua-New-Guinea-in-the-morning-.html4.8 quake 29 Dec 10:34 am (GMT +11) Just 20 minutes ago, a 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck near Arawa, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. The tremor was recorded in the morning on Tuesday 29 December 2020 at 10:34 am local time, at an intermediate depth of 70 km below the surface.Tue, 29 Dec 2020 01:10:00 +0100volcanodiscovery-fc0258d922bfbe03ae0cde1297d0dfec20201229011000