1802 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/9554836/mag4quake-Aug-17-2024-Indonesia-Near-North-Coast-of-West-Papua.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Jayapura , a city with more than 400,000 inhabitants in Indonesia , in 76 km (47 mi) distance southeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. Several smaller towns and villages are located closer....2024-08-17T19:15+0200volcanodiscovery-1908cc66e22a63c2f304692cccac25ed20240817191500https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9554658/mag4quake-Aug-17-2024-Papua-New-Guinea-Eastern-New-Guinea-Reg-Png.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Lae , a town with 76,000 inhabitants in Papua New Guinea , in 137 km (85 mi) distance southwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. In the capital of , Portus Moresbiensis, 416 km (259 mi)....2024-08-17T16:56+0200volcanodiscovery-4e540558eb4dc99ca88319a4807f8fa120240817165600https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9554469/mag4quake-Aug-17-2024-Papua-New-Guinea-New-Britain-Region-Png.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Kimbe , a town with 19,000 inhabitants in Papua New Guinea , in 78 km (48 mi) distance southwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. In the capital of , Portus Moresbiensis, 624 km (388 mi)....2024-08-17T14:59+0200volcanodiscovery-b26a052fa3f2a4d04581b6ae9897a38c20240817145900https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9552631/mag4quake-Aug-16-2024-NORTHERN-XINJIANG-CHINA.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Xinyuan , a city with more than 300,000 inhabitants in China , in 45 km (28 mi) distance northwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. The following table shows some of the places that might have been affected (or not) by the shaking.2024-08-16T13:49+0200volcanodiscovery-e97dd51995c591210183b48ded34c25420240816134900