A severe 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked central New Zealand Monday.
The 5.1-magnitude earthquake that jolted a county in central China's Hubei Province Monday injured six people and forced more than 2,000 to be relocated, authorities said Wednesday.
A severe earthquake measuring 6. 2 on the Richter scale has been recorded off the coast of Fiordland, shaking New Zealand's Southland region on early Tuesday.
There have so far been 12 reports of injuries after two earthquakes shook Songyuan City in northeast China's Jilin Province on Thursday morning, local authorities said.
Five people were killed and 24 others injured, including seven tourists, in a 5.9-magnitude quake that jolted southwest China's Yunnan and Sichuan provinces on Saturday morning, local authorities said.
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake jolted Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China, at 1:27 p.m. Friday Beijing Time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
Traffic is expected to resume in a quake zone in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, as rescuers have cleared most of the roads that were affected by a quake on Monday.
No casualties have been reported from Tibet after it was hit by an earthquake Monday morning, although houses were toppled and roads damaged, according to local government.
More than 2,000 soldiers and officers as well as two helicopters have been dispatched to the quake-hit areas.
A 6.6-magnitude earthquake has jolted China's northwest province of Gansu, killing at least dozens of people.
The death toll has climbed to 89, with 5 others still unaccounted for, in an earthquake that hit northwest China's Gansu Province Monday morning, local authorities said.
Fifty-six people have been confirmed dead and another 14 remain missing after an earthquake hit northwest China's Gansu Province on Monday morning, local authorities said.
More than 100,000 schools in Peru took part Thursday in a nationwide drill to prepare for a possible earthquake of magnitude 8 or higher and subsequent tsunami, an Education Ministry official said.
Powerful quake in Aceh of Indonesia on Tuesday killed 22 people, injured 218 others and damaged thousands of houses, official said here on Wednesday.
Survivors on Sunday mourned victims of the 8.0-magnitude Wenchuan quake that struck southwest China's Sichuan Province five years ago, while they are struggling to embrace a new life.
Public mourning was held on Saturday morning in Sichuan Province for those who died in the earthquake on April 20 which claimed nearly 200 lives.
Southwestern Sichuan Province is making every effort to carry out rescue and relief work in the quake-hit region, and prepare for the post-quake reconstruction, local authorities said at a press conference here Thursday.
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