583332 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://tribune.net.ph/2023/06/16/7-2-magnitude-quake-strikes-off-tonga/Earthquakes near Tonga trench. Location of the 2009 epicenter and that of a similar earthquake in 1917 (white circles) in relation to the bend in the Tonga trench (yellow line). Large open arrow shows direction and speed (237 mm/yr) of relative convergence between the Pacific plate and the overriding plate.2023-06-15T22:51+0200tribuneonline-840d441be149586c45bff67ea8363b4720230615225100https://www.news18.com/world/7-2-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-off-tonga-8090083.htmlA powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific island nation of Tonga on Friday, but no tsunami warning was issued, US monitoring agencies said. The earthquake struck shortly after 7:00 am (1800 GMT Thursday) at a depth of 167 kilometres (103 miles) some 290 kilometres southwest of the....2023-06-15T22:37+0200news18-0cf41748b9262ac62e28e73cb3eee32520230615223700https://www.aninews.in/news/world/others/earthquake-of-68-magnitude-jolts-tonga20230616020210/ANI | Updated: Jun 16, 2023 02:02 IST. [Tonga], June 16 (ANI): An earthquake of 6.8 magnitude on the Richter scale jolted South West of Nuku'alofa , Tonga on Tuesday, the National Centre for Seismology ( ) said in a tweet. The earthquake struck at 11:36 pm Indian Standard Time (IST) and at a depth of 210 kilometres.2023-06-15T22:33+0200aninews-7e2c234d69ee1eae6846e845c40dec2e20230615223300https://www.nampa.org/index.php?model=categories&function=display&id=222224077.2-magnitude quake strikes off Tonga ATTENTION - ADDS quotes, details /// Wellington, June 15, 2023 (AFP) - A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific island nation of Tonga on Friday, but no tsunami warning was issued, US monitoring agencies said.2023-06-15T22:30+0200nampa-4e378f6bacf0310ec13f89fb3943526320230615223000