3500 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://watchers.news/2021/02/07/shallow-m6-3-earthquake-hits-near-the-coast-of-papua-new-guinea/The epicenter was located 195 km (121 miles) SW of Lorengau and 217 km (135 miles) N of Madang, Papua New Guinea. There are just a few people living within 100 km (62 miles). 359 000 people are estimated to have felt light shaking. Image credit: TW/SAM, Google. The USGS issued a green alert for shaking-related fatalities and economic losses.Sun, 07 Feb 2021 09:50:00 +0100watchers-dcc735ae055727ab4429a60777793c2320210207095000https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/439681/papua-new-guinea-magnitude-63-offshore-earthquake-strikes-in-the-bismark-sea-north-of-madang-at-1545-pgt-feb-7Event. A magnitude-6.3 earthquake occurred in the Bismarck Sea at around 1545 Feb. 7. The epicenter was about 215 km (133 miles) north of Madang, Madang Province. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 10 km (6 miles) and likely triggered strong shaking near the epicenter.Sun, 07 Feb 2021 07:59:00 +0100garda-com-06f9f370a0f4312032d97963cb49c4fe20210207075900https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/438421/papua-new-guinea-magnitude-53-earthquake-occurs-in-eastern-region-at-around-0249-pgt-feb-4Event. A magnitude-5.3 earthquake occurred in eastern Papua New Guinea at approximately 0249 PGT Feb. 4. The epicenter was about 58 km (36 miles) northwest of Finschhafen. The tremor occurred at a depth of approximately 59 km (37 miles), and weak-to-light shaking was probably felt throughout eastern Papua New Guinea.Wed, 03 Feb 2021 18:44:00 +0100garda-com-65069d46c66d09cb102898662ccd16dd20210203184400https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/436891/indonesia-magnitude-55-offshore-earthquake-occurs-in-arafura-sea-east-of-tual-jan-31Event. A magnitude-5.5 offshore earthquake occurred in the Arufura Sea at 1844 Jan. 31. The epicenter was about 107 km (66 miles) east of Tual. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 8 km (5 miles) and light shaking was probably felt throughout southern coastal communities of West Papua Province and eastern parts of Maluku Province.Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:04:00 +0100garda-com-127f8e41b5bea2d772eea7db5e2c1b2220210131140400