5222 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/9448926/mag4quake-Jun-20-2024-Japan-SE-OFF-MIYAGI-PREF.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Sendai , a city of 1.1 million people in Japan , in 84 km (52 mi) distance west 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.2024-06-20T09:56+0200volcanodiscovery-2b88ebe57c439143f4fc4ac0a2b648e720240620095600https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9448775/mag4quake-Jun-20-2024-Near-East-Coast-of-Honshu-Japan.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Hachinohe , a city with more than 240,000 inhabitants in Japan , in 82 km (51 mi) distance west of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. Several smaller towns and villages are located closer to the....2024-06-20T08:03+0200volcanodiscovery-800360994f08bed6ed6370cbf3696c6b20240620080300https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9448188/mag3quake-Jun-19-2024-Japan-SOUTHERN-NARA-PREF.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Osaka , a city of 2.6 million people in Japan , in 62 km (38 mi) distance northwest 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.2024-06-19T21:41+0200volcanodiscovery-43120b50487056e655fa6af3ea59a9bd20240619214100https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15311450An additional 22 deaths are expected to be confirmed as caused by the Noto Peninsula earthquake, sending the disaster’s death toll to 282 and surpassing that of the 2016 Kumamoto quakes. That will make the New Year's Day quake the third deadliest quake in Japan since the Heisei Era (1989-2019),....2024-06-19T12:39+0200ajw-0d37de47bbaa01b67a071b70850c4e0a20240619123900