12730 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://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2021-10-02/local-news/Earthquake-close-to-Malta-another-in-Fiji-recorded-by-seismic-group-6736237224An earthquake close to Malta and a bigger one in Fiji were recorded by the Seismic Monitoring and Research Group of the University of Malta. A post on the group’s Facebook page said that a magnitude 3.8 earthquake about 130 km south of Malta was registered at 04:39 local time (blue trace). Later, a magnitude 7.2021-10-03T00:08+0200MaltaIndipendent-b515f62df2cf0aaad1b7994505f6e91520211003000800https://www.unravelmalta.com/earthquake-close-to-malta-another-in-fiji-recorded-by-seismic-group-www-independent-com-mt/An earthquake close to Malta and a bigger one in Fiji were recorded by the Seismic Monitoring and Research Group of the University of Malta. A post on the group’s Facebook page said that a magnitude 3.8 earthquake about 130 km south of Malta was registered at 04:39 local time (blue trace). Later, a magnitude 7.2021-10-02T12:43+0200unravelmalta-523ec3407c0be5e3197b51f928fb15ed20211002124300https://www.unravelmalta.com/minor-tremor-recorded-off-maltas-southern-coast-timesofmalta-com/A 3.8-magnitude tremor struck about 130 km south of Malta in the early hours of Saturday morning, researchers said. The Seismic Monitoring and Research Group of the Univeristy of Malta, on Saturday said the seismic active had occurred at 4.39am. The Richter Scale, used to measure seismic activity, classifies events that score between a 3.2021-10-02T12:43+0200unravelmalta-600ab2cc302fc06ae8ad1734c2cb39e420211002124300https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/530776/fiji-magnitude-73-offshore-earthquake-occurs-southwest-of-nadi-at-around-1829-oct-2Event. A magnitude-7.3 offshore earthquake occurred in the South Pacific Ocean southwest of Fiji at around 18:29 FJT Oct. 2. The epicenter was around 451 km (280 miles) southwest of Nadi, Fiji. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 535 km (332 miles), and weak-to-light shaking was probably felt in southern parts of Vanuatu and Fiji.2021-10-02T11:33+0200garda-com-bde857b3738c6dc6ecd865310b4a0a9620211002113300