13720 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.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/141852/Moderate-41-quake-hits-near-Namie-Futaba-gun-Fukushima-Japan.htmlJust 12 minutes ago, a 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck near Namie, Futaba-gun, Fukushima, Japan. The tremor was recorded early morning on Monday, September 20th, 2021, at 1:11 am local time, at a moderately shallow depth of 44.4 km below the surface. The event was filed by Japan's National Research....2021-09-19T18:54+0200volcanodiscovery-192a27dd8e7eec6b8fdd211da2ae707520210919185400https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/525966/japan-magnitude-52-earthquake-strikes-west-of-hotaka-in-central-honshu-sept-19Event. A magnitude-5.2 earthquake struck in central Honshu at around 17:18 Sept. 19 The epicenter was about 15 km (9 miles) west-southwest of Hotaka, Nagano Prefecture. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 10 km (6 miles), and light shaking likely occurred near the epicenter. There have been no initial reports of damage or casualties.2021-09-19T11:31+0200garda-com-def169d7da4e0c04b0e5b311ce10f2ee20210919113100https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14433618HAMAMATSU--An unusual collaboration between a newspaper delivery shop and an eyewear accessory company here led to the development of "randoseru" school backpacks that can be used as makeshift emergency flotation devices if children get caught in a tsunami or heavy flooding.2021-09-19T04:30+0200ajw-0c30f592a004b18ff7105748b7f8fb1a20210919043000https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/141782/Moderate-magnitude-46-earthquake-20-km-northeast-of-Mito-Japan.htmlA magnitude 4.6 earthquake near Mito, Mito-shi, Ibaraki, Japan, was reported only 16 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.2021-09-19T01:55+0200volcanodiscovery-233de63bd8884902a93c3d3f8829ce5120210919015500