4622 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/earthquake/news/240963/Magnitude-59-earthquake-strikes-near-Lae-Morobe-Papua-New-Guinea.htmlIndonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency reported a magnitude 5.9 quake in Papua New Guinea near Lae, Morobe, only 8 minutes ago. The earthquake hit early morning on Monday, May 6th, 2024, at 1:40 am local time at an intermediate depth of 136 km.2024-05-05T18:00+0200volcanodiscovery-9e02e17a4817a719e00d3e2cdce192e820240505180000https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9366448/quake-felt-May-5-2024-Near-Lae-Morobe-Papua-New-Guinea.htmlIndonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency reported a magnitude 5.9 quake in Papua New Guinea near Lae, Morobe, only 8 minutes ago. The earthquake hit early morning on Monday, May 6th, 2024, at 1:40 am local time at an intermediate depth of 136 km.2024-05-05T18:00+0200volcanodiscovery-ad8730a5554e14f56c7c8d342d8debac20240505180000https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9366167/mag4quake-May-5-2024-West-Papua-Region-Indonesia.htmlBased on data from the past 14 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 45 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: 0.45 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 2.2024-05-05T14:00+0200volcanodiscovery-2d1d6a50d86282f9a548b38452af5ccc20240505140000https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9366088/mag4quake-May-5-2024-Seram-Indonesia.htmlBased on data from the past 14 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 76 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 6 or higher: 0.06 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 17.9 years) Mag. 5 or higher: 3 quakes per year; Mag.2024-05-05T13:02+0200volcanodiscovery-0712bc4eb3e494558295e5e2a87b4a2f20240505130200