1701 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/9550750/mag5quake-Aug-15-2024-Samoa-Tonga-Islands.htmlBased on data from the past 14 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 60 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 7 or higher: 0.04 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 25 years) Mag. 6 or higher: 1.08 quakes per year; Mag.2024-08-15T14:41+0200volcanodiscovery-cfb34c33b13bb0ff6e7d95768b39e82120240815144100https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9550096/mag3quake-Aug-15-2024-Chile-89-km-al-NE-de-El-Salvador.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Diego de Almagro , a town with 18,000 inhabitants in Chile , in 144 km (90 mi) distance southwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. In the capital of , Santiago de Chile, 887 km (551 mi)....2024-08-15T07:42+0200volcanodiscovery-505be55d78e62d8f63d72e42add3032720240815074200https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9549804/mag4quake-Aug-15-2024-SAN-JUAN-Argentina.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Ciudad de San Juan , a city with more than 450,000 inhabitants in Argentina , in 88 km (55 mi) distance east of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there.2024-08-15T03:27+0200volcanodiscovery-c351a5a187d10f361c1ae1644478074c20240815032700https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9549569/mag4quake-Aug-14-2024-Vanuatu-Islands.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Norsup , a town with 3,000 inhabitants in Vanuatu , in 163 km (102 mi) distance northeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. In the capital of , Noumea, 543 km (337 mi) away from the epicenter, the earthquake could not be felt.2024-08-14T23:47+0200volcanodiscovery-243797b4e09a9b18579daf32f02d379d20240814234700