2400 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/9389590/mag4quake-May-18-2024-New-Guinea-Papua-New-Guinea.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Tari , a town with 8,200 inhabitants in Papua New Guinea , in 102 km (63 mi) distance southeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. In the capital of , Portus Moresbiensis, 713 km (443 mi)....2024-05-18T08:16+0200volcanodiscovery-c7cd55c47af16caa57abdddcfc92d29620240518081600https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9388399/mag4quake-May-17-2024-West-Papua-Region-Indonesia.htmlBased on data from the past 54 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 21.5 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 6 or higher: 0.04 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 25 years) Mag. 5 or higher: 0.21 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 4.2024-05-17T17:36+0200volcanodiscovery-c3796c76cdaa8dbcd41bf2719b9621d120240517173600https://www.breakinglatest.news/world/tremor-in-ica-5-tremors-of-magnitudes-between-4-and-5-have-been-recorded/The epicenter of the earthquakes was recorded in entrance of Paracas Bay – Credit: Composition Infobae Perú. Five earthquakes of magnitudes between 4 and 5 have been reported throughout the evening of Wednesday, May 15, and the early morning of May 16.2024-05-17T02:31+0200breakinglatest-6c4ce011e353cda0d2982c8baf89c45420240517023100https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9386504/mag4quake-May-16-2024-New-Guinea-Papua-New-Guinea.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Ambunti , a town with 2,100 inhabitants in Papua New Guinea , in 38 km (23 mi) distance northeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. In the capital of , Portus Moresbiensis, 745 km (463 mi)....2024-05-16T15:43+0200volcanodiscovery-568e084cd53aa68171835f428c8bdc8a20240516154300