25660 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://menafn.com/1103345323/50-magnitude-quake-strikes-Japan&source=19- IANS) > Tokyo, Dec 12 (IANS) An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 on Sunday struck Japan's eastern Ibaraki Prefecture, authorities said. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the temblor occurred at around 12:.31 p.m., with its epicentre at a latitude of 36.1 degrees north and a longitude of 139.2021-12-12T12:41+0100menafn-79dacf8282fc8e132c0d123a282d7cc920211212124100https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10301245/Huge-6-6-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-near-Australian-island.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490Marine geophysicist professor Mike Coffin from University of Tasmania's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies recently called for plans to modernise the Australian Antarctic Division station to be delayed until the tsunami risk is better understood.2021-12-12T12:15+0100dailymail-32dbf0c512aa951e918c2c734f64af7520211212121500https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/154341/Magnitude-48-earthquake-strikes-near-Chignik-Lagoon-Lake-and-Peninsula-Alaska-USA.htmlAn earthquake of magnitude 4.8 occurred after midnight on Sunday, December 12th, 2021, at 12:55 am local time near Chignik Lagoon, Lake and Peninsula, Alaska, USA, as reported by the United States Geological Survey. According to preliminary data, the quake was located at a shallow depth of 13 miles.2021-12-12T11:29+0100volcanodiscovery-2b7078e71746377cc52dc154bf33d9b820211212112900https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/6540192/mag4quake-Dec-12-2021-105-km-SSE-of-Chignik-Alaska.htmlAn earthquake of magnitude 4.8 occurred after midnight on Sunday, December 12th, 2021, at 12:55 am local time near Chignik Lagoon, Lake and Peninsula, Alaska, USA, as reported by the United States Geological Survey. According to preliminary data, the quake was located at a shallow depth of 13 miles.2021-12-12T11:29+0100volcanodiscovery-25d8faa67be4dd08f7c27153b0b536a420211212112900