800 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/8883224/mag3quake-Mar-2-2024-LA-RIOJA-Argentina.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is San Agustin de Valle Fértil, a town with 6,900 inhabitants in Argentina , in 108 km (67 mi) distance northwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there.2024-03-02T06:26+0100volcanodiscovery-c7b5db8b51c6cba3b7f7326a76e186d220240302062600https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8882436/mag4quake-Mar-1-2024-Santiago-Del-Estero-Prov-Argentina.htmlBased on data from the past 4 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 11 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 6 or higher: 0.23 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 4.4 years) Mag. 5 or higher: 0.53 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 1.2024-03-01T19:22+0100volcanodiscovery-808a7abbf50646a67f02cc8d79e53e6220240301192200https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8878781/mag4quake-Feb-28-2024-La-Rioja-Province-Argentina.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Tinogasta, a town with 15,000 inhabitants in Argentina , in 71 km (44 mi) distance west 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.2024-02-28T21:08+0100volcanodiscovery-f8759f766050e54521ad83eaae34c49e20240228210800https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/235366/World-Earthquake-Report-for-Wednesday-28-February-2024.htmlThis report is being updated every hour. Magnitude 5 +: 2 earthquakes Magnitude 4 +: 27 earthquakes Magnitude 3 +: 117 earthquakes Magnitude 2 +: 247 earthquakes No quakes of magnitude 6 or higher. Total seismic energy estimate: 1.5 x 10 13 joules (4.26 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 3664 tons of TNT or 0.2024-02-28T06:27+0100volcanodiscovery-6f08433dcdd60c33fae523eb9535f92120240228062700