10162 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/8880037/mag4quake-Feb-29-2024-Southern-Sumatra-Indonesia.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Kotabumi, a town with 42,000 inhabitants in Indonesia , in 171 km (106 mi) distance northeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. In the capital of , Jakarta, 368 km (229 mi) away from the epicenter, the earthquake could not be felt.2024-02-29T14:20+0100volcanodiscovery-ecbd02dc656cc6930a4fd2ebb352413a20240229142000https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/235505/Significant-53-quake-hits-near-Honiara-Solomon-Islands.htmlIndonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency reported a magnitude 5.3 quake in the Solomon Islands near Honiara, only 11 minutes ago. The earthquake hit late at night on Thursday, February 29th, 2024, at 11:16 pm local time at a moderately shallow depth of 47 km.2024-02-29T13:41+0100volcanodiscovery-3c909bc7fe94f3ab32d0a319f5f8fc8020240229134100https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8879672/mag4quake-Feb-29-2024-Flores-Region-Indonesia.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Ende, a town with 77,000 inhabitants in Indonesia , in 37 km (23 mi) distance south of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. The following table shows some of the places that might have been affected (or not) by the shaking.2024-02-29T09:22+0100volcanodiscovery-a1e86ef5b83aa66a65c78e65988c5b0520240229092200https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/world-news-4-2-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-bay-of-bengal-5790424.htmlNew Delhi, February 29 : In a recent seismic event, the Bay of Bengal region experienced an earthquake registering a magnitude of 4.2 on the Richter scale. The National Center for Seismology (NCS) confirmed the occurrence, reporting that the seismic activity took place on February 29, at precisely 11:23:26 Indian Standard Time (IST).2024-02-29T09:17+0100latestly-5a20ab4fad4ac25ffd42dfe030bca9a120240229091700