4823 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://phys.org/news/2024-06-noto-peninsula-earthquake-quiet-rupture.htmlSeveral active faults , primarily extending in a northeast-southwest direction, are known to exist in the Noto Peninsula and its surrounding areas. For approximately three years prior to the earthquake, slow aseismic crustal deformation and active seismicity, which were believed to be associated with subsurface fluid movement, had been observed.2024-06-21T09:16+0200phys-1cfda0fff1da4d136710533dea0c259220240621091600https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9450565/mag4quake-Jun-21-2024-Near-East-Coast-Of-Honshu-Japan.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Iwaki , a city with more than 360,000 inhabitants in Japan , in 62 km (39 mi) distance north 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.2024-06-21T07:37+0200volcanodiscovery-70f7dc4ccc342fb37824d9ee4735f3fa20240621073700https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9450536/quake-felt-Jun-21-2024-Near-Matsuyama-Ehime-Japan.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is hilosima si , a city of 1.2 million people in Japan , in 68 km (42 mi) distance north 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.2024-06-21T07:19+0200volcanodiscovery-4cf7d30013ab7c5bcaa50162bcb2c4f320240621071900https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9449894/mag4quake-Jun-20-2024-Japan-FAR-S-OFF-TOKAI-DISTRICT.htmlBased on data from the past 54 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 31.1 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 7 or higher: 0.07 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 13.7 years) Mag. 6 or higher: 0.16 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 6.2024-06-20T22:20+0200volcanodiscovery-5d7c8e68ede22e7d9b701dfe6cab873a20240620222000