124180 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.thesun.co.uk/news/science/16519354/what-causes-earthquakes/The earth's crust is made up of different pieces known as tectonic plates. These plates fit together like a jigsaw and continuously move at a rate of a few centimetres a year, in different directions and at different speeds. It's common for plates to slides past each other, bump into each other and move away from each other.2021-10-24T17:22+0200thesun-cd13a27e9d1059674f56bd1d46adf2b420211024172200https://www.archyde.com/strong-earthquake-shakes-taiwan-6-5-intensity-was-recorded/Taipei: (www.kvartha.com 24.10.2021) Strong earthquake shakes Taiwan An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale shook northeastern Taiwan. Homes in the capital, Taipei, were shaken, locals said. No casualties were reported in the incident, however. At 1.11 pm local time, a magnitude 66.8 earthquake shook the region.2021-10-24T15:43+0200archyde-71f8c282a29f19781b8e30ab11cc4e5220211024154300https://www.archyde.com/in-spain-the-sea-devours-the-catalan-coast/“It’s a slow-motion tsunami, but it’s a tsunami, a wave that keeps getting bigger. ” Co-coordinator of the report “A coastline reaching its limits” published in early September, commissioned by the Spanish region of Catalonia to take stock of the state of the coast under the influence of climate change, Carles Ibanez is categorical.2021-10-24T13:41+0200archyde-fbb94550b50d75c73d502094c928c18a20211024134100https://en.antaranews.com/news/195793/54-magnitude-quake-hits-bengkulus-enggano-island30 minutes ago Screenshot of BMKG website -- The epicenter of 5.4-magnitude earthquake in Enggano Island, Bengkulu Province, on Sunday (ANTARA/ Zubi Mahrofi) Jakarta (ANTARA) - A 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit Enggano Island in Bengkulu Province on Sunday morning, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported.2021-10-24T10:57+0200antaranews-en-bc9d976aca7fcb9bce6dc700c406a7c920211024105700