491120 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/173137/Moderate-43-quake-hits-near-Shizunai-furukawach-Hidaka-gun-Hokkaido-Japan.htmlThe United States Geological Survey reported a magnitude 4.3 quake in Japan near Shizunai-furukawachō, Hidaka-gun, Hokkaido, only 26 minutes ago. The earthquake hit in the morning on Friday, February 18th, 2022, at 10:51 am local time at a moderately shallow depth of 69.1 km.2022-02-18T03:42+0100volcanodiscovery-95fdcddf0d4b08497247b59618aec69f20220218034200https://www.kxxv.com/hometown/texas/number-of-texas-earthquakes-increasing-fracking-mostly-to-blameTEXAS — 2021 marked a new high for earthquakes in Texas, and human activity is to blame for most of it. 209 - that's how many earthquakes magnitude 3 or greater rattled the Lone Star State last year. It's more than double the number in 2020. Most were concentrated in western Texas, and some scientists say fracking is the culprit.2022-02-18T03:33+0100kxxv-d5ed8ddca61e305cae5ef4e2e639da3620220218033300https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/seismic-ears-to-the-groundThe National Seismic Hazard Assessment of Australia identifies the southeast corner of Australia as a seismic hotspot – with a magnitude 5.0 or greater earthquake occurring roughly every seven years on average in Victoria. The 1989 magnitude 5.6 Newcastle earthquake in New South Wales exemplifies....2022-02-18T02:06+0100unimelb-67737799f7f367db12c291aff0ac857d20220218020600https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/173134/Small-32-quake-hits-near-Hilo-Hawaii-County-Hawaii-USA.htmlAn earthquake of magnitude 3.2 occurred only 9 minutes ago 39 miles southwest of Hilo, Hawaii, United States, the United States Geological Survey reported. The quake hit at a moderately shallow depth of 20 miles beneath the epicenter near Hilo, Hawaii County, Hawaii, USA, early afternoon on Thursday, February 17th, 2022, at 2:20 pm local time.2022-02-18T01:41+0100volcanodiscovery-0af0efffa769b382e5568878bb54f9c420220218014100