8000 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/earthquakes/quake-info/6805342/quake-felt-May-17-2022-Near-Kimbe-West-New-Britain-Papua-New-Guinea.htmlA moderately shallow magnitude 4.8 earthquake was reported in the evening near Kimbe, Talasea District, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. According to the United States Geological Survey, the quake hit on Tuesday, May 17th, 2022, at 8:21 pm local time at a moderately shallow depth of 57.7 km.2022-05-17T13:16+0200volcanodiscovery-2fc77cebec9e0b588b98659456afa3ff20220517131600https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/180795/Moderate-magnitude-48-earthquake-42-km-south-of-Kimbe-Papua-New-Guinea.htmlA moderately shallow magnitude 4.8 earthquake was reported in the evening near Kimbe, Talasea District, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. According to the United States Geological Survey, the quake hit on Tuesday, May 17th, 2022, at 8:21 pm local time at a moderately shallow depth of 57.7 km.2022-05-17T12:51+0200volcanodiscovery-d67db136f5d83f01ee94594c1fe279c220220517125100https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/180785/Moderate-earthquake-of-magnitude-46-just-reported-115-km-southwest-of-Abepura-Papua-New-Guinea.htmlJust 22 minutes ago, a 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck near Abepura, Papua, Indonesia. The tremor was recorded in the afternoon on Tuesday, May 17th, 2022, at 4:11 pm local time, at an intermediate depth of 108.2 km below the surface. The event was filed by the United States Geological Survey, the first seismological agency to report it.2022-05-17T09:55+0200volcanodiscovery-d4044417eb36938d427c89852030492b20220517095500https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/180696/Moderate-magnitude-47-earthquake-101-km-west-of-Ambunti-Papua-New-Guinea.htmlAn earthquake of magnitude 4.7 occurred only 20 minutes ago 101 km west of Ambunti, Papua New Guinea, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported. The quake hit at an intermediate depth of 100 km beneath the epicenter near Ambunti, Ambunti-Dreikikir, East Sepik Province, Papua....2022-05-16T16:06+0200volcanodiscovery-642ed27359ea2fcf353f5b0599cc227220220516160600