137150 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/224229/Significant-earthquake-of-magnitude-53-just-reported-39-km-southwest-of-Lae-Papua-New-Guinea.htmlAn earthquake of magnitude 5.3 occurred only 20 minutes ago 39 km southwest of Lae, Papua New Guinea, the United States Geological Survey reported. The quake hit at a moderately shallow depth of 54 km beneath the epicenter near Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, in the morning on Tuesday, October 24th, 2023, at 9:24 am local time.2023-10-24T02:08+0200volcanodiscovery-a53ffa29c7fdd1238cc2482bb8cc480120231024020800https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/7959248/quake-felt-Oct-23-2023-Near-Lae-Morobe-Papua-New-Guinea.htmlSeismic station: Charters Towers, Australia (CTAO/IU network) | Distance from quake: 1468 km / 912 mi | Show on map Station Info Seismogram (vertical component) around time of quake. Thin dotted red line indicates time of quake. Seismic waves arrive some time later, depending on distance. Bandpass filter applied: 0.2023-10-24T01:49+0200volcanodiscovery-2a5bfc58ee69ee9c06dce569ae54688c20231024014900https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/7958906/mag4quake-Oct-23-2023-West-Papua-Region-Indonesia.htmlSeismic station: Jayapura, Indonesia (JAY/PS network) | Distance from quake: 455 km / 283 mi | Show on map Station Info Seismogram (vertical component) around time of quake. Thin dotted red line indicates time of quake. Seismic waves arrive some time later, depending on distance. Bandpass filter applied: 0.2023-10-23T22:19+0200volcanodiscovery-1575f94dffbed50b0d0fb0c0c3b17d7920231023221900https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/7958595/mag4quake-Oct-23-2023-57-km-SE-of-Madang-Papua-New-Guinea.htmlSeismic station: Rabaul, Papua New Guinea (RABL/AU network) | Distance from quake: 690 km / 429 mi | Show on map Station Info Seismogram (vertical component) around time of quake. Thin dotted red line indicates time of quake. Seismic waves arrive some time later, depending on distance. Bandpass filter applied: 0.2023-10-23T19:26+0200volcanodiscovery-d15859753cbd9cf83e12708a14829eb620231023192600