11412 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/earthquake/news/235751/Magnitude-50-earthquake-strikes-near-Hachinohe-Hachinohe-Shi-Aomori-Japan.htmlA magnitude 5.0 earthquake near Hachinohe, Hachinohe Shi, Aomori, Japan, was reported only 10 minutes ago by Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), considered the main national agency that monitors seismic activity in this part of the world. The earthquake occurred at a moderately shallow depth of 56.2024-03-03T09:49+0100volcanodiscovery-7c69e06a69e484d14eb15f4dd8e0529b20240303094900https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8885255/quake-felt-Mar-3-2024-Near-Hachinohe-Aomori-Japan.htmlA magnitude 5.0 earthquake near Hachinohe, Hachinohe Shi, Aomori, Japan, was reported only 10 minutes ago by Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), considered the main national agency that monitors seismic activity in this part of the world. The earthquake occurred at a moderately shallow depth of 56.2024-03-03T09:49+0100volcanodiscovery-ecc36589f78bcf6c08b76c9239ff232120240303094900https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-agency-warns-of-more-quakes-as-temblors-continue-east-of-tokyoJapan's weather agency has warned of more earthquakes in Chiba Prefecture east of Tokyo following a series of temblors in recent days, detecting a movement known as "slow slip" in tectonic plates off the coast. The slow-slip event is believed to be occurring off the Boso Peninsula on the boundary....2024-03-03T08:52+0100japantoday-d1ecf293ff02e3158cff77e7c347825e20240303085200https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8884621/mag4quake-Mar-2-2024-Ryukyu-Islands-Japan.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Uken, a town with 1,800 inhabitants in Japan , in 103 km (64 mi) distance southeast 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.2024-03-03T00:23+0100volcanodiscovery-a0665f02cb82cf52232fed19b34a8dd320240303002300