4710 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/8757426/mag3quake-Dec-27-2023-Atacama-Chile.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Vallenar, a town with 44,900 inhabitants in , in 29 km (18 mi) distance northwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking shaking there. In the capital Santiago de Chile, 521 km (324 mi) away from the epicenter, the earthquake could not be felt.2023-12-27T19:55+0100volcanodiscovery-7712320ac97158d6a4d529dc37be642520231227195500https://kosovapress.com/en/%e2%80%8b19-vjet-nga-cunami-qe-vrau-250-mije-njerez/On December 26, 2004, the Sumatra earthquake with a magnitude of 9,1 on the Richter scale created a tsunami that caused about 250 casualties. "Killing more than 200 people and causing tens of billions of dollars in damage, that event stimulated the scientific community and government bodies to equip....2023-12-26T07:40+0100kosovapress-fd7d1a1c75527968e183e976a04b932520231226074000https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8754704/mag4quake-Dec-26-2023-Offshore-Atacama-Chile.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Diego de Almagro, a town with 18,100 inhabitants in , in 103 km (64 mi) distance east of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking shaking there. In the capital Santiago de Chile, 796 km (494 mi) away from the epicenter, the earthquake could not be felt.2023-12-26T05:41+0100volcanodiscovery-9f5b7a7a462b3f98e74c7aea64a7ea1e20231226054100https://www.dailynews.lk/2023/12/26/editorial/314057/boxing-day-tsunami-19-years-on/Nineteen years ago on this day, massive tidal waves battered the coast of Sri Lanka and 13 other countries in the Indian Ocean and Africa, killing over 240,000 people and rendering 1.7 million homeless. For a population that did not even know the word ‘tsunami’ before 2004, we are now very much aware of the dangers posed by these massive waves.2023-12-25T20:43+0100dailynews-lk-ee424c2e529879a8758c45cfd911e3ad20231225204300