700 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 http://www.uniindia.com/5-9-magnitude-quake-hits-101-km-ese-of-kimbe-papua-new-guinea--usgs/world/news/3191020.htmlHong Kong, May 2 (UNI) An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 jolted 101 km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea at 2345 GMT on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 31.3 km, was initially determined to be at 5.83 degrees south latitude and 151.01 degrees east longitude.2024-05-02T05:23+0200uniindia-9dac30e69861454d04c8f7b5d1bc388c20240502052300https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9359717/mag4quake-May-2-2024-55-km-SE-of-Kirakira-Solomon-Islands.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Kirakira , a town with 1,100 inhabitants in the Solomon Islands , in 55 km (34 mi) distance northwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. In the capital of the , Honiara, 294 km (183 mi) away....2024-05-02T02:38+0200volcanodiscovery-ea46981df4bb1840230b600fc430be7420240502023800https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-team-unveils-carbon-dating-techniques-that-may-shore-up-jerusalem-chronology/An Israeli team has achieved a breakthrough in advanced radiocarbon dating techniques, enabling for the first time an “absolute chronology” of Jerusalem in the Iron Age, the time of the Kingdom of Judah and the First Temple, according to a Tuesday press release from the Weizmann Institute of Science.2024-04-30T22:17+0200timesofisrael-5fc553761c02265ecf2ec0b0a40aac4520240430221700https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/240464/World-Earthquake-Report-for-Tuesday-30-April-2024.htmlThis report is being updated every hour. Magnitude 5 +: 2 earthquakes Magnitude 4 +: 39 earthquakes Magnitude 3 +: 124 earthquakes Magnitude 2 +: 256 earthquakes No quakes of magnitude 6 or higher. Total seismic energy estimate: 2.2 x 10 13 joules (6.05 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 5207 tons of TNT or 0.2024-04-30T07:25+0200volcanodiscovery-d454893736f2102817d50cc0f8193d4420240430072500