2700 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/9342169/mag4quake-Apr-23-2024-Indonesia-Banda-Sea.htmlBased on data from the past 54 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 20.9 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 6 or higher: 0.03 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 31.3 years) Mag. 5 or higher: 0.64 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 1.2024-04-23T08:12+0200volcanodiscovery-cbe434d339f611bf55b59ef072100f0d20240423081200https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9341576/mag4quake-Apr-22-2024-Indonesia-Banda-Sea.htmlBased on data from the past 14 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 50 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 7 or higher: 0.03 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 31.3 years) Mag. 6 or higher: 0.21 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 4.2024-04-23T00:40+0200volcanodiscovery-561042b4eeb4123435d0c397949746c920240423004000https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/239838/Significant-56-quake-hits-near-Hualien-City-Hualien-Taiwan.htmlJust 9 minutes ago, a 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck near Hualien City, Hualien, Taiwan. The tremor was recorded early morning on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024, at 2:26 am local time, at a shallow depth of 10 km below the surface. The event was filed by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), the first seismological agency to report it.2024-04-22T20:48+0200volcanodiscovery-28b58a35ba492b2a1d2a8adf527cc68a20240422204800https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9341041/mag4quake-Apr-22-2024-Northern-Sumatra-Indonesia.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Padangsidempuan , a city with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Indonesia , in 59 km (37 mi) distance northeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there.2024-04-22T18:40+0200volcanodiscovery-a9167be2ffe4092611c4c4a8598f3b8520240422184000