7621 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/9396922/mag4quake-May-21-2024-Off-East-Coast-Of-Honshu-Japan.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Minami-Sōma , a town with 59,000 inhabitants in Japan , in 91 km (57 mi) distance west of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. Several smaller towns and villages are located closer to the epicenter and might have experienced stronger shaking.2024-05-21T23:03+0200volcanodiscovery-61d8c262a95be4e668e0f8ebb195b93020240521230300https://www.newscientist.com/article/2431907-snow-and-rising-sea-levels-may-have-triggered-japans-earthquake-swarm/Snow may have weakened fractures and faults underground and contributed to earthquakes in Japan. Suzuki Kaku/Alamy. A years-long swarm of thousands of earthquakes in Japan was probably triggered by heavy snow and other environmental factors such as rain and rising sea levels.2024-05-21T21:34+0200newscientist-nsmm-331edc19e3b4010865b5ec2384b6f42f20240521213400https://phys.org/news/2024-05-effectiveness-earthquake-early.htmlTo deal with such situations promptly, the Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) system sends out notifications to areas expected to experience strong tremors by detecting primary seismic waves (P-waves) that arrive before the secondary waves (S-waves). However, the short time between receiving the....2024-05-21T21:02+0200phys-06ce6ba53b8f6180be3ebfe040e7c27420240521210200https://www.newscientist.com/article/2431907-snow-and-rising-sea-levels-may-have-triggered-japans-earthquake-swarm/Snow may have weakened fractures and faults underground and contributed to earthquakes in Japan. Suzuki Kaku/Alamy. A years-long swarm of thousands of earthquakes in Japan was probably triggered by heavy snow and other environmental factors such as rain and rising sea levels.2024-05-21T17:06+0200newscientist-331edc19e3b4010865b5ec2384b6f42f20240521170600