26630 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/149356/Moderate-yet-deep-magnitude-55-earthquake-90-km-northeast-of-Wakkanai-Japan.htmlA magnitude 5.5 earthquake near Wakkanai, Wakkanai Shi, Hokkaido, Japan, was reported only 11 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 great depth of 340.2021-12-02T22:09+0100volcanodiscovery-ad4ffbcdda208856ab52070a7194ff1d20211202220900https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/149345/Moderate-magnitude-42-quake-hits-40-km-southeast-of-Kofu-Japan-early-morning-.htmlA magnitude 4.2 earthquake near Kofu, Kōfu-shi, Yamanashi, 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 21.2021-12-02T18:38+0100volcanodiscovery-3aef100751c1d57ec104b44882eece0520211202183800https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/6525381/quake-felt-Dec-2-2021-Near-Tokyo-Tokyo-Japan.htmlA magnitude 4.2 earthquake near Kofu, Kōfu-shi, Yamanashi, 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 21.2021-12-02T18:38+0100volcanodiscovery-477bec06148ae5529cd5ef960292c28d20211202183800https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2021/12/coastal-life-finds-a-way-in-great-pacific-garbage-patch/Gyres of ocean plastic accumulate when surface currents drive floating plastic pollution from coasts towards regions of the ocean, rotate and trap the floating objects. There are at least five plastic-infested gyres, the largest of which is the 79,000-tonne North Pacific Subtropical Gyre between....2021-12-02T18:32+0100eandt-theiet-505dad3c2368f6325de092f90bcda58420211202183200