Fourteen people sustained injuries and scores of houses were damaged in West Sumatra Province after a 6.5-magnitude quake hit western Indonesia earlier Thursday, an official at the local disaster agency said.
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the sea area off New Taipei City of Taiwan at 1:23 p.m. Beijing Time on Tuesday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).
Two 5.3-magnitude earthquakes hit the southern part of Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China on Sunday morning, said the China Earthquake Networks Center.
Nepal is set to mobilize over 1, 300 engineers in the worst-hit districts this week as part of the post-quake reconstruction campaign, Prime Minister Sharma Oli said on Wednesday.
Nepalese economy, hit hard by last year's deadly earthquake, is struggling to revive as the government's spending in reconstruction and other development activities has remained poor.
Chinese-manufactured equipment and the infrastructure facilities built by Chinese enterprises have stood the test of a strong earthquake that jolted Ecuador earlier this month, setting a paradigm for production capacity cooperation with Latin America.
Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli offered tributes to those who lost their lives in the April 25 earthquake last year and prayed for the peace of departed souls on Sunday, marking the first anniversary of the 7.9 magnitude devastating quake.
The death toll of the deadly 7. 8-magnitude earthquake that struck the northern Pacific coast of Ecuador on April 16 has risen to 646, said President Rafael Correa Saturday.
The death toll of waves of major quakes that hit Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan last week reached 48 and three are still missing, according to local authorities on Wednesday, while sufferers' health problems are highlighted as 11 died from so-called "quake-related death."
Kumamoto airport in Japan's quake-ravaged southwest prefecture opened for the first time Tuesday for commercial flights, with the first plane heading for the airport in the disaster-hit region departing from Tokyo's Haneda Airport at around 6:00 a.m. this morning.
The two quakes occurred about 9,000 miles apart. That’s far too distant for there to be any connection between them.
Search and rescue missions are continuing Sunday in quake-stricken regions in Japan's southwest with military personnel and firefighters searching through the rubble of collapsed homes and buildings for signs of life.
At least 28 people were killed as a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Ecuador Saturday, Ecuadorian media reported.
A powerful magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck the island of Kyushu in southwestern Japan early Saturday just a day after a sizable foreshock hit the region, with the number of fatalities now standing at 41 according to the latest figures on Sunday.
At least six people were killed and 500 others hospitalized after a powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake rocked Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan's southwest early Saturday.
An undersea quake measuring at 5. 6 magnitude jolted eastern parts of Indonesia earlier Friday and was not potential for tsunami, the meteorology and geophysics agency said here.
Local police confirmed that nine people were killed after powerful quakes hit Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan at late Thursday and early Friday, while over 400 people were taken to hospitals.
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