800 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/181753/Moderate-earthquake-of-magnitude-48-just-reported-43-km-northwest-of-Gizo-Solomon-Islands.htmlAn earthquake of magnitude 4.8 occurred only 16 minutes ago 43 km northwest of Gizo, Solomon Islands, the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake reported. The quake hit at an intermediate depth of 93 km beneath the epicenter near Gizo, New Georgia Group, Western Province, Solomon Islands, in....2022-05-27T12:16+0200volcanodiscovery-dc96c2abbf4ca3f3b7700c728267a0a920220527121600https://www.marineinsight.com/know-more/largest-sea-in-the-world-6-facts-you-might-not-know/The Philippine sea plate makes up the seafloor. The increased tectonic movements have led to the creation of island arcs, which are clusters of active volcanoes lying under the seas or oceans with slight protruding edges on the water surface. These underwater volcanic mountains rise to a height of about 1500 miles.2022-05-25T18:32+0200marineinsight-77ee433d151bd3986a631ef9e310d9e820220525183200https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/6814872/mag4quake-May-22-2022-100-km-NE-of-Finschhafen-Papua-New-Guinea.htmlA magnitude 4.8 earthquake near Kandrian, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, was reported only 24 minutes ago by the United States Geological Survey, considered one of the key international agencies that monitor seismic activity worldwide. The earthquake occurred at an intermediate depth of 80.2022-05-22T19:27+0200volcanodiscovery-d0926d7b03e1702cb8415e3d36fdb05b20220522192700https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/6794841/mag5quake-May-11-2022-76-km-SSW-of-Panguna-Papua-New-Guinea.htmlJust 23 minutes ago, a 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck near Arawa, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. The tremor was recorded in the morning on Thursday, May 12th, 2022, at 9:24 am local time, at a shallow depth of 10 km below the surface. The event was filed by the United States Geological Survey, the first seismological agency to report it.2022-05-12T01:04+0200volcanodiscovery-cae161406048e143ebbbbe51523d6c2e20220512010400