11202 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/8861239/mag4quake-Feb-19-2024-Japan-E-OFF-MIYAGI-PREF.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Sendai, a city of 1.1 million people in Japan , in 78 km (49 mi) distance west of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. Many smaller towns and villages are located closer to the epicenter and might have experienced stronger shaking.2024-02-19T03:29+0100volcanodiscovery-65b9c872490f0fbfc902cde1142c6f3e20240219032900https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/02/19/japan/japan-winter-evacuation-survey/Nearly 70% of 108 Japanese coastal municipalities at risk of damage from a tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake have never conducted drills for operating evacuation centers in the winter, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday. The survey, which examined 108 municipalities spanning seven....2024-02-19T02:23+0100japantimes-dc7da1ef45733bd69854dd60f58ba93120240219022300https://japantoday.com/category/national/70-of-tsunami-risk-areas-in-japan-have-not-run-winter-shelter-drillsNearly 70 percent of 108 Japanese coastal municipalities at risk of damage from a tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake have never conducted drills for operating evacuation centers in the winter, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday. The survey, which examined 108 municipalities spanning seven....2024-02-18T22:56+0100japantoday-3c9a1e76f036443b8629ed3a379f0af920240218225600https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8860284/mag4quake-Feb-18-2024-Japan-OFF-NEMURO-PENINSULA.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Nemuro, a town with 31,000 inhabitants in Japan , in 16.1 km (10 mi) distance northeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. In the capital of , Tokyo, 971 km (603 mi) away from the epicenter, the earthquake could not be felt.2024-02-18T13:45+0100volcanodiscovery-c430f8fc410691b02c44b68aca0959cb20240218134500