1000 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/8891762/mag5quake-Mar-6-2024-Samoa-Islands-Region.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Hihifo, a town with 815 inhabitants in Tonga , in 134 km (83 mi) distance southwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. In the capital of , Alofi, 580 km (360 mi) away from the epicenter, the....2024-03-06T18:48+0100volcanodiscovery-44c305b79900c531efa343b38beeeb1f20240306184800https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/235998/World-Earthquake-Report-for-Wednesday-6-March-2024.htmlThis report is being updated every hour. Magnitude 5 +: 4 earthquakes Magnitude 4 +: 31 earthquakes Magnitude 3 +: 126 earthquakes Magnitude 2 +: 284 earthquakes No quakes of magnitude 6 or higher. Total seismic energy estimate: 5.1 x 10 13 joules (14.1 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 12143 tons of TNT or 0.2024-03-06T06:32+0100volcanodiscovery-6a5e227c68a140405185191e1b509f8920240306063200https://article.wn.com/view/2024/03/05/1st_LD_Writethru_53magnitude_quake_hits_Tonga_Islands_GFZ/BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2024-03-05T12:50+0100wn-ed207e4a09a98d75e3f14d967ae778e820240305125000http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2024-03/05/content_117040749.htmBEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted Tonga Islands at 1004 GMT on Tuesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 35.0 km, was initially determined to be at 20.12 degrees south latitude and 173.86 degrees west longitude.2024-03-05T12:13+0100china.org.cn-79fbe7c856d1cc36424202d163b3f71a20240305121300