3401 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/234342/World-Earthquake-Report-for-Saturday-17-February-2024.htmlThis report is being updated every hour. Magnitude 5 +: 2 earthquakes Magnitude 4 +: 30 earthquakes Magnitude 3 +: 129 earthquakes Magnitude 2 +: 265 earthquakes No quakes of magnitude 6 or higher. Total seismic energy estimate: 2 x 10 13 joules (5.44 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 4678 tons of TNT or 0.2024-02-17T06:34+0100volcanodiscovery-091568619fb13fc89675c480276678a820240217063400http://www.uniindia.com/5-2-magnitude-quake-hits-banda-sea-gfz/world/news/3145045.htmlBeijing, Feb 16 (UNI) An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted Banda Sea at 1423 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 103.6 km, was initially determined to be at 6.14 degrees south latitude and 130.39 degrees east longitude. UNI/XINHUA ARN.2024-02-17T00:25+0100uniindia-06e891d059b5458c3be8193856ded12920240217002500https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8857215/mag4quake-Feb-16-2024-Indonesia-Minahassa-Peninsula-Sulawesi.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Palu, a city with more than 280,000 inhabitants in Indonesia , in 258 km (160 mi) distance south of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. In the capital of , Banda Seri, 706 km (439 mi) away from the epicenter, the earthquake could not be felt.2024-02-16T19:55+0100volcanodiscovery-0c76bce6463c526d98e1c5f9cad9922420240216195500https://en.tempo.co/read/1834358/megathrust-activity-triggers-4-4m-earthquake-in-aceh-singkil-bmkg-reportsTEMPO.CO Jakarta The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency or BMKG reported that a tectonic earthquake with 4.4-magnitude shook Aceh Singkil Regency and its surrounding area on Friday, February 16, 2024, at 03:22 p.m. WIB (Western Indonesia Time). The epicenter of the quake was located at 2.2024-02-16T18:40+0100tempo-co-da6074179b997bb5f61138c5261d045320240216184000