229490 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://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/02/22/magnitude-56-quake-jolts-off-sultan-kudaratMANILA A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck the waters off Sultan Kudarat on Tuesday afternoon, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. The location of the quake which hit around 1:24 p.m. at a depth of 36 kilometers was in northwest of Lebak town.2022-08-02T08:29+0200abs-cbnnews-3d0cc3801e810107621bf34205a7cdd620220802082900https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/187876/Moderate-magnitude-48-earthquake-28-km-northeast-of-Kirkjubaejarklaustur-Iceland.htmlA magnitude 4.8 earthquake near Kirkjubaejarklaustur, Skaftárhreppur, South, Iceland, was reported only 25 minutes ago by the Icelandic Met Office (IMO), considered the main national agency that monitors seismic activity in this part of the world. The earthquake occurred at a very shallow depth of 1.2022-08-02T02:02+0200volcanodiscovery-5709a238964ae303de3337d532f14d9720220802020200https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/6943202/mag4quake-Aug-1-2022-Northern-Sumatra-Indonesia.htmlAn intermediate magnitude 4.6 earthquake was reported early morning near Padangsidempuan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), the quake hit on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022, at 4:17 am local time at an intermediate depth of 104 km.2022-08-02T01:37+0200volcanodiscovery-1fcac9a93217e0381483e6b3aebb7d8e20220802013700https://www.oceannews.com/news/science-and-tech/using-artificial-waves-to-predict-tsunamisOur Earth is a dynamic planet: Earthquakes and volcanism are triggered by processes in the Earth's interior. Strong earthquakes with magnitudes of eight or higher on the Richter scale are among the events that - especially in combination with tsunamis - can lead to high numbers of victims in the population of affected regions.2022-08-01T19:09+0200oceannews-21c0a224818cd79af51d1d0b7845d16420220801190900