242590 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 http://wam.ae/en/details/1395302962382Sun 22-08-2021 09:14 AM Magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes South Sandwich Islands region SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS, 22nd August, 2021 (WAM/Reuters) -- A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the South Sandwich Islands region, the US Geological Survey said early on Sunday. The quake had a depth of 10 km (six miles), USGS said.2021-08-22T07:18+0200wam-en-dd2b211b8ecc5711469269f7c2cb2b5120210822071800https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/516141/japan-magnitude-53-offshore-earthquake-occurs-in-the-north-pacific-ocean-east-of-fukushima-prefecture-1124-jst-aug-22Event. A magnitude-5.3 offshore earthquake occurred in the North Pacific Ocean off northern Honshu at around 11:24 JST Aug. 22. The epicenter was about 102 km (63 miles) east-northeast of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 54 km (34 miles), and weak-to-light shaking....2021-08-22T06:47+0200garda-com-402507c73d859b77294c7a4d9c93b8c520210822064700https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/550249A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the South Sandwich Islands region Sunday, according to reports by the U.S. Geological Survey. No injuries or property damage have been reported. The USGS said the earthquake struck at a depth of 10 km, but no tsunami warning has been announced following the quake.2021-08-22T06:28+0200israelnationalnews-5ba9c4fb85cf775cb0acaaaa8bc0291220210822062800http://famagusta-gazette.com/2021/08/22/earthquake-rattles-japans-fukushima-prefecture/Earthquake rattles Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture. An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 struck off Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture on Sunday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The temblor occurred at around 11:24 a.m. local time, with its epicenter at a latitude of 37.6 degrees north and a longitude of 141.2021-08-22T06:12+0200famagusta-gazette-3476c563205d1791ebf844abb7be3afb20210822061200