6920 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/8882649/mag3quake-Mar-1-2024-Indonesia-Banda-Sea.htmlBased on data from the past 4 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 31 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 6 or higher: 0.04 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 25 years) Mag. 5 or higher: 0.41 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 2.2024-03-01T21:30+0100volcanodiscovery-b4fc8da17395f33f0e537cad33a384d020240301213000https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8882567/mag4quake-Mar-1-2024-West-Papua-Region-Indonesia.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Mas, a town with 320 inhabitants in Indonesia , in 146 km (91 mi) distance northwest 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.2024-03-01T20:34+0100volcanodiscovery-24dc180dfd4e6204343523a1869a86c420240301203400https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8882495/mag4quake-Mar-1-2024-Northern-Sumatra-Indonesia.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Padangsidempuan, a city with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Indonesia , in 124 km (77 mi) distance northeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there.2024-03-01T19:58+0100volcanodiscovery-026a45a5a4742027c24e70b2c7cc804b20240301195800https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8881872/mag4quake-Mar-1-2024-Northern-Sumatra-Indonesia.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Reuleuet, a town with 40,000 inhabitants in Indonesia , in 83 km (51 mi) distance north of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. Several smaller towns and villages are located closer to the epicenter and might have experienced stronger shaking.2024-03-01T13:22+0100volcanodiscovery-6d5827e73bbc8209374df48369248f1720240301132200