12823 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/8883661/mag4quake-Mar-2-2024-Eastern-Honshu-Japan.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Tokyo, the capital of with 8,300,000 inhabitants, in 49 km (31 mi) distance south of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. Many smaller towns and villages are located closer to the epicenter and might have experienced stronger shaking.2024-03-02T12:44+0100volcanodiscovery-f37cc1c308d55ee06304348549e3e83b20240302124400http://www.uniindia.com/5-0-magnitude-quake-hits-rat-islands-aleutian-islands/world/news/3153977.htmlAdak, Mar 2 (UNI) An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 jolted the Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, at 07:50:42 GMT on Saturday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicentre, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 51.59 degrees north latitude and 177.79 degrees east longitude.2024-03-02T12:27+0100uniindia-bcafbe053abba6cf059a8d1e01f8b88a20240302122700https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/international/japanese-ex-soldier-wins-u-s-award-for-her-fight-against-sexual-harassment/The United States on Friday said it would honour former Japan Self-Defense Forces soldier Rina Gonoi with the International Women of Courage Award for bringing about change in the Japanese military with her victory in a sexual harassment case. Gonoi, 24, will be among 12 recipients globally of the U.2024-03-02T10:48+0100in-cyprus-df32c0255d09d8a8cadbaa5c319731b720240302104800https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15185657The United States on Friday said it would honor former Japan Self-Defense Forces soldier Rina Gonoi with the International Women of Courage Award for bringing about change in the Japanese military with her victory in a sexual harassment case. Gonoi, 24, will be among 12 recipients globally of the U.S.2024-03-02T10:41+0100ajw-1676d568970fdae448ab8f1f2bb9023e20240302104100