3802 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/8928926/mag4quake-Mar-20-2024-Bonin-Islands-Japan-Region.htmlBased on data from the past 54 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 13.5 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 7 or higher: 0.02 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 62.5 years) Mag. 6 or higher: 0.24 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 4.2024-03-20T20:27+0100volcanodiscovery-ab4e040e146c6fbaad20bf39dc75be9620240320202700https://disasterscharter.org/web/guest/-/charter-activation-for-noto-earthquake-in-japan?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fdisasterscharter.org%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fhome%3Bjsessionid%3DABD181B038E43C3469FB34656D36B74D.APP1%3Fp_p_id%3D101_INSTANCE_wXneVGJumy2r%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-3%26p_p_col_count%3D120 March 2024 Charter activation for Noto earthquake in Japan. On January 1, 2024, at 4:10 pm (Local Time, 07:10 UTC), a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the Noto peninsula of Ishikawa prefecture, Japan. The quake was centered around 30 kilometers east-northeast of Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture, with a provisional depth of 16 km.2024-03-20T19:30+0100disasterscharter-abce834c564ec953b75f744d2cb9b5a720240320193000https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8926914/mag4quake-Mar-20-2024-Volcano-Islands-Japan-Region.htmlBased on data from the past 54 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 10.3 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 7 or higher: 0.02 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 62.5 years) Mag. 6 or higher: 0.09 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 11.2024-03-20T17:25+0100volcanodiscovery-c1dd3035b40a03e397b6ff24369704db20240320172500https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/03/3a8f7c618521-breastfeeding-shirt-supports-mothers-in-evacuation-centers.html"It's important to provide support to mothers, who may not be able to raise their voices, so that they will not feel isolated," the company's founder Yuka Mitsuhata, 59, said. The shirts, made from quick-drying material and inspired by kimonos, allow mothers to feed babies from slits situated around the armpits.2024-03-20T09:13+0100kyodonews-973179acf9421f821ef8f747272420d920240320091300