5631 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/8912970/mag4quake-Mar-17-2024-South-of-Java-Indonesia.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Kencong, a town with 43,000 inhabitants in Indonesia , in 132 km (82 mi) distance north of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. In the capital of , Jakarta, 790 km (491 mi) away from the epicenter, the earthquake could not be felt.2024-03-17T17:30+0100volcanodiscovery-5c12836341040a25ae836df187c203b420240317173000https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8912473/mag4quake-Mar-17-2024-Sumba-Region-Indonesia.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Bima, a town with 67,000 inhabitants in Indonesia , in 92 km (57 mi) distance northwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. Several smaller towns and villages are located closer to the epicenter and might have experienced stronger shaking.2024-03-17T10:47+0100volcanodiscovery-b88cf5d47ad8d75e5987b82720b621cc20240317104700https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8911314/mag4quake-Mar-16-2024-Seram-Indonesia.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Amahai, a town with 48,000 inhabitants in Indonesia , in 85 km (53 mi) distance southwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. Several smaller towns and villages are located closer to the....2024-03-16T19:46+0100volcanodiscovery-1d1f46decd1cc3bbbb58d6dbd94ddd9320240316194600https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8910458/mag4quake-Mar-16-2024-Sumba-Region-Indonesia.htmlBased on data from the past 10 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 256 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 6 or higher: 0.12 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 8.5 years) Mag. 5 or higher: 2.4 quakes per year; Mag.2024-03-16T09:49+0100volcanodiscovery-5df3d189bfb66e77c9b6cee591df47bf20240316094900