4301 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://eu.registerguard.com/story/news/education/2024/01/27/great-cascadia-earthquake-pacific-northwest-anniversary/72359664007/, said studying the past could provide important clues for what to expect in the future. "It's the most important earthquake for us in the region," Melgar Moctezuma said. The 1700 mega earthquake. At around 9 p.m. on Jan. 26, 1700, the ground shook for one to two minutes, scientists estimate, when a....2024-01-27T14:29+0100registerguard-51a26da31b428df80bc42fc1a6536f5420240127142900https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8808287/mag3quake-Jan-27-2024-Tarapaca-Chile.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Pozo Almonte, a town with 9,300 inhabitants in , in 65 km (40 mi) distance southwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking shaking there. Many smaller towns and villages are located closer to the....2024-01-27T07:01+0100volcanodiscovery-0436908fd3d0ac824df6c2feee199a8220240127070100https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/232527/World-Earthquake-Report-for-Saturday-27-January-2024.htmlThis report is being updated every hour. Magnitude 5 +: 3 earthquakes Magnitude 4 +: 37 earthquakes Magnitude 3 +: 111 earthquakes Magnitude 2 +: 249 earthquakes No quakes of magnitude 6 or higher. Total seismic energy estimate: 3 x 10 13 joules (8.2 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 7054 tons of TNT or 0.2024-01-27T06:30+0100volcanodiscovery-5b2080cffc6eb34e8fab0e84f5cee39820240127063000https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8807496/mag3quake-Jan-26-2024-Antofagasta-Chile.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Ollagüe, a town with 134 inhabitants in , in 74 km (46 mi) distance northeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking shaking there. The following table shows some of the places that might have been affected by the shaking.2024-01-26T20:01+0100volcanodiscovery-052c8d472d51104cba7f54fe90e2182320240126200100