4001 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/8894534/mag5quake-Mar-8-2024-Indonesia-Southern-Molucca-Sea.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Ternate, a city with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Indonesia , in 274 km (170 mi) distance north 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.2024-03-08T05:15+0100volcanodiscovery-cfbac4f5d71d2f1334a4fd466a2ec55a20240308051500https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8894219/mag4quake-Mar-7-2024-Indonesia-Banda-Sea.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Tual, a town with 89,000 inhabitants in Indonesia , in 321 km (199 mi) distance northeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. In the capital of , Delhi, 537 km (334 mi) away from the epicenter, the earthquake could not be felt.2024-03-08T00:31+0100volcanodiscovery-e8b03738526f90c477fc4d0742654b4a20240308003100https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8894028/mag4quake-Mar-7-2024-South-of-Sumbawa-Indonesia.htmlBased on data from the past 10 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 23.7 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 6 or higher: 0.16 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 6.3 years) Mag. 5 or higher: 0.95 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 1.2024-03-07T23:39+0100volcanodiscovery-06fc44c6d8d12dea0f789650d13ea9ea20240307233900https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8893416/mag4quake-Mar-7-2024-South-of-Java-Indonesia.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Dampit, a town with 23,000 inhabitants in Indonesia , in 104 km (65 mi) distance north of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. In the capital of , Jakarta, 717 km (445 mi) away from the epicenter, the earthquake could not be felt.2024-03-07T14:21+0100volcanodiscovery-b8e8f79c75e762bc93db8370a54e12b320240307142100