14120 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/525021/japan-magnitude-54-earthquake-strikes-on-the-noto-peninsula-in-central-honshu-sept-16Event. A magnitude-5.4 earthquake struck on the Noto Peninsula in central Honshu at around 16:42 Sept. 16. The epicenter was about 52 km (32 miles) north-northeast of Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 10 km (6 miles), and moderate-to-strong shaking occurred near the epicenter.2021-09-16T14:44+0200garda-com-d0457c94b8b922dac3f55fa973f38aa320210916144400http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/asiapacific/2021-09/16/c_1310191693.htmTOKYO, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 struck Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture on Thursday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The temblor occurred at around 6:42 p.m. local time, with its epicenter at a latitude of 37.5 degrees north and a longitude of 137.3 degrees east at depth of 10 km.2021-09-16T12:35+0200xinhuanet-english-6091585199762762512fd12b6430523420210916123500https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/141525/Significant-53-quake-hits-near-Nanao-Ishikawa-Japan.htmlA magnitude 5.3 earthquake near Nanao, Ishikawa, Japan, was reported only 12 minutes ago by Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), considered the main national agency that monitors seismic activity in this part of the world. The earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 13.2021-09-16T12:16+0200volcanodiscovery-49c9b4057eac46cdcf09335cda3c2ce220210916121600https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/6409910/mag5quake-Sep-16-2021-Japan-NOTO-PENINSULA-REGION.htmlA magnitude 5.3 earthquake near Nanao, Ishikawa, Japan, was reported only 12 minutes ago by Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), considered the main national agency that monitors seismic activity in this part of the world. The earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 13.2021-09-16T12:16+0200volcanodiscovery-973219749e9cf946e06c8c1f99981abd20210916121600