5803 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/9446513/mag4quake-Jun-18-2024-SOUTHERN-XINJIANG-CHINA.htmlBased on data from the past 14 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 231 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 6 or higher: 0.02 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 62.5 years) Mag. 5 or higher: 0.85 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 1.2024-06-18T22:43+0200volcanodiscovery-5000ff3ab9e8aebaaff1cad0f4384ce620240618224300https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9446406/mag4quake-Jun-18-2024-China-KYRGYZSTAN-XINJIANG-BORDER-REGION.htmlBased on data from the past 54 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 200 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 6 or higher: 0.03 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 31.3 years) Mag. 5 or higher: 0.38 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 2.2024-06-18T22:43+0200volcanodiscovery-7d5b055f17599188a304bfeb81a5f80a20240618224300https://vervetimes.com/huge-earthquake-2500-years-ago-rerouted-the-ganges-river-study-suggests/A huge earthquake that shook southern Asia 2,500 years ago abruptly changed the course of the Ganges River, new research suggests. The earthquake was previously unknown to science, but researchers spotted clues of its immense force buried in the landscape near Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.2024-06-18T22:22+0200vervetimes-1f5a90b61268a0495a25481a1e5ac90220240618222200https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9446103/mag4quake-Jun-18-2024-NORTHERN-XINJIANG-CHINA.htmlA moderate magnitude 4.0 earthquake hit NORTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA, late in the evening of Tuesday, Jun 18, 2024 at 10.48 pm local time (Asia/Urumqi GMT +8). The quake had a very shallow depth of 10 km (6 mi) and was not felt (or at least not reported so).2024-06-18T19:14+0200volcanodiscovery-eb375eb0a70fc8380cc03237e11e2e5320240618191400