24530 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://watchers.news/2021/12/19/fiji-m6-3-earthquake-hits-december-19-2021/The epicenter was located about 88 km (55 miles) W of Labasa and 206 km (128 miles) N of Suva, Fiji. There are about 100 000 people living within 100 km (62 miles). 28 000 people are estimated to have felt moderate shaking and 600 000 light. There is no tsunami threat from this earthquake.2021-12-19T18:40+0100watchers-14a20ee54770b749a7c6a94ea806c98d20211219184000https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/161908/Moderate-magnitude-42-earthquake-55-km-east-of-Ishinomaki-Japan.htmlAn earthquake of magnitude 4.2 occurred only 12 minutes ago 55 km east of Ishinomaki, Japan, Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) reported. The quake hit at a moderately shallow depth of 63 km beneath the epicenter near Ishinomaki, Ishinomaki Shi,....2021-12-19T10:10+0100volcanodiscovery-1608d46069a0e3ecc6310a1630abdb3d20211219101000https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/557996/india-magnitude-53-offshore-earthquake-occurs-off-northern-andaman-and-nicobar-islands-at-around-0849-dec-19Event. A magnitude-5.3 offshore earthquake occurred in the Bay of Bengal off northern Andaman and Nicobar Islands at around 08:49 Dec. 19. The epicenter was about 222 km (138 miles) north of Port Blair. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 10 km (6 miles), and weak-to-light shaking was probably....2021-12-19T06:38+0100garda-com-c2932c0f798b49066e3739e9e6a0577f20211219063800https://www.eurasiareview.com/19122021-earthquake-depth-impacts-potential-tsunami-threat/Research led by University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa scientists provides new insight that connects the characteristics of earthquakes—magnitude, depth where two tectonic plates slip past each other and the rigidity of the plates involved—with the potential size of a resulting tsunami.2021-12-19T04:17+0100eurasiareview-d72482e80d16c1c33ab253e9c4cca80020211219041700