1500 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/242650/Significant-magnitude-54-earthquake-106-km-northwest-of-Pucallpa-Peru.htmlAn earthquake of magnitude 5.4 occurred early morning on Friday, May 24th, 2024, at 4:59 am local time near Pucallpa, Provincia de Coronel Portillo, Ucayali, Peru, as reported by the Institute of Geophysics of the National Polytechnic School in Quito (IGEPN). According to preliminary data, the quake was located at a very shallow depth of 5 km.2024-05-24T12:11+0200volcanodiscovery-8815e04158f7305ba0c80937cc2a400420240524121100https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9401160/mag5quake-May-24-2024-Northern-Peru.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Contamana , a town with 14,000 inhabitants in Peru , in 86 km (53 mi) distance northeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced light shaking there. Several smaller towns and villages are located closer to the epicenter and might have experienced stronger shaking.2024-05-24T12:11+0200volcanodiscovery-5cf38afedd924248b38d4da46ed85f0320240524121100https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9401159/mag5quake-May-24-2024-Centro-del-Peru.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Santa Rosa , a town with 18,000 inhabitants in Peru , in 93 km (58 mi) distance south of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. Many smaller towns and villages are located closer to the epicenter and might have experienced stronger shaking.2024-05-24T12:11+0200volcanodiscovery-3bb7bb0f81b99d60f89ff49234373e0120240524121100https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9400768/mag4quake-May-24-2024-Central-Peru.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Nazca , a town with 24,000 inhabitants in Peru , in 25 km (16 mi) distance northwest 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.2024-05-24T07:41+0200volcanodiscovery-d72348e0dfd9113bb6ec32b04c5be53520240524074100