200 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/9351625/mag5quake-Apr-28-2024-Eritrea.htmlA strong magnitude 5.0 earthquake occurred in the Red Sea near Dese island, Eritrea, in the early morning of Sunday, Apr 28, 2024 at 3.37 am local time (Africa/Asmara GMT +3). The quake had a very shallow depth of 10 km (6 mi) and was not felt (or at least not reported so).2024-04-28T02:53+0200volcanodiscovery-7f681eee55b55e5bbb30e8fca3badc7820240428025300https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9351316/mag4quake-Apr-27-2024-Eritrea-Ethiopia.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is , the capital of with 560,000 inhabitants, in 85 km (53 mi) distance southwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. Several smaller towns and villages are located closer to the epicenter and might have experienced stronger shaking.2024-04-27T23:06+0200volcanodiscovery-2c6d63b91a556376b65a0450a5f2636620240427230600