5421 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.mdpi.com/2072-4292/16/6/1064A wide and comprehensive review of seismo-electromagnetic pre-earthquake processes has been provided in Paper #1, and it constitutes a very good introduction to the topic of this Special Issue, also providing some future perspectives on how machine learning and artificial intelligence could contribute to the topic.2024-03-18T07:24+0100mdpi-0265d7d874b96dda6693847f404238bc20240318072400https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8914603/mag4quake-Mar-18-2024-SOUTHERN-XINJIANG-CHINA.htmlBased on data from the past 14 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 203 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 5 or higher: 0.64 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 1.6 years) Mag. 4 or higher: 65 quakes per year (or 5.2024-03-18T06:33+0100volcanodiscovery-c620231bbb84be4a94d18b783c7895e720240318063300https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8914473/mag4quake-Mar-18-2024-NORTHERN-XINJIANG-CHINA.htmlBased on data from the past 10 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 338 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 5 or higher: 0.88 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 1.1 years) Mag. 4 or higher: 97 quakes per year (or 8.2024-03-18T03:34+0100volcanodiscovery-ff89cbea07aff45969d015967b38ddf120240318033400https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8913097/mag4quake-Mar-17-2024-SOUTHERN-XINJIANG-CHINA.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Aral, a city with more than 260,000 inhabitants in China , in 152 km (95 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.2024-03-17T19:57+0100volcanodiscovery-9c7da52d09c7127e08357b7adeebd9c620240317195700