3900 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://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/ranked-5-best-heavy-bombers-all-time-208183Boeing B-29 Superfortress. This is the plane that ended World War II, thanks to Enola Gay and Bockscar. These two B-29s dropped the atomic bombs that convinced Imperial Japan’s Emperor Hirohito to abandon the samurai Bushido code of no surrender and make his country endure the unendurable.2024-06-18T03:56+0200nationalinterest-55e29febd171a4e5969475574db2caab20240618035600https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/244697/Moderate-tremor-of-magnitude-40-reported-25-km-northwest-of-Matalam-Indonesia.htmlAn earthquake of magnitude 4.0 occurred in the morning on Tuesday, June 18th, 2024, at 7:30 am local time near Matalam, Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, as reported by Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency. According to preliminary data, the quake was located at a shallow depth of 10 km.2024-06-18T02:19+0200volcanodiscovery-b7f2f964f59bb155703504dcacea285c20240618021900https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9444845/quake-felt-Jun-17-2024-Near-Matalam-West-Nusa-Tenggara-Indonesia.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Denpasar , a city of 0.8 million people in Indonesia , in 99 km (62 mi) distance west of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. Many smaller towns and villages are located closer to the epicenter and might have experienced stronger shaking.2024-06-18T01:42+0200volcanodiscovery-c94d54d921252a76f0fd613abe61949c20240618014200https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9444799/mag4quake-Jun-17-2024-Kepulauan-Barat-Daya-Indonesia.htmlBased on data from the past 14 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 74 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 7 or higher: 0.02 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 41.7 years) Mag. 6 or higher: 0.26 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 3.2024-06-18T01:23+0200volcanodiscovery-f3f732c1d490ace3c0bb6f1973b7b20520240618012300