5500 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/8884482/mag4quake-Mar-2-2024-Indonesia-Banda-Sea.htmlBased on data from the past 10 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 1,100 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 8 or higher: 0.01 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 100 years) Mag. 7 or higher: 0.08 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 12.2024-03-02T22:33+0100volcanodiscovery-c8e2a85ee2d889116f8535050dbc101820240302223300https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8884166/mag4quake-Mar-2-2024-Sumbawa-Region-Indonesia.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Matalam, a city with more than 320,000 inhabitants in Indonesia , in 98 km (61 mi) distance north of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. Several smaller towns and villages are located closer....2024-03-02T17:49+0100volcanodiscovery-b466b699f63be542915046ddc04ba3a320240302174900https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8883622/mag4quake-Mar-2-2024-Java-Indonesia.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Sukabumi, a city with more than 280,000 inhabitants in Indonesia , in 75 km (47 mi) distance north of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. Several smaller towns and villages are located closer to....2024-03-02T12:07+0100volcanodiscovery-a787cd40319ec53f5794a25a37625b1c20240302120700https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/235637/World-Earthquake-Report-for-Saturday-2-March-2024.htmlThis report is being updated every hour. Magnitude 5 +: 5 earthquakes Magnitude 4 +: 35 earthquakes Magnitude 3 +: 118 earthquakes Magnitude 2 +: 263 earthquakes No quakes of magnitude 6 or higher. Total seismic energy estimate: 9.9 x 10 13 joules (27.5 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 23623 tons of TNT or 1.2024-03-02T06:26+0100volcanodiscovery-1e0be63691b431020e2cd3c90395067d20240302062600