At least 62 people were injured and 200 houses damaged in Thursday evening's earthquake that hit Papua in easternmost Indonesia, a spokesman of the country's national disaster management agency told Xinhua on Friday.
At least 62 people were injured and 200 houses damaged in Thursday evening's earthquake that hit Papua in easternmost Indonesia, a spokesman of the country's national disaster management agency told Xinhua on Friday.
Mexico Saturday commemorated the 30th anniversary of the tragic earthquake, 8.1 on the Richter scale, which devastated Mexico City and killed over 6,000 people, according to the city government's civil protection institute.
A 8.2-magnitude earthquake jolted the waters off central Chile at 6:54 a.m. Thursday (Beijing Time), said the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).
24 year-old Lin Xiaoyun had never stepped outside of her country, China. Being involved in a Chinese language center in Guangdong province as a language teacher, she decided to broaden her horizons, and travel for the first time to Nepal with friends this month.
A 7.2 magnitude quake rocked Papua in easternmost of Indonesia earlier Tuesday, however there is no immediate report of damages and casualty, officials said here.
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake hit Pishan County of Hotan Prefecture in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 9:07 a.m. on Friday, said the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).
One woman was killed and two others were injured in Tibet after China's neighbor Nepal was jolted by another earthquake on Tuesday afternoon.
U.S. Pacific Command said Tuesday an American Marine Corps helicopter offering quake relief in Nepal was declared missing with eight people on board.
Nepali government said on Wednesday that more than 6,000 injured people are receiving treatment in 18 districts following Saturday's major earthquake.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday pledged full support for relief effort in Nepal, as the Himalayan country is still reeling from a powerful earthquake and heavy casualties.
China's top economic planner on Sunday allocated 30 million yuan (4.9 million U.S. dollars) of emergency funds to the quake-affected regions in Tibet.
International aid groups and the governments intensified efforts to send rescuers and supplies into quake-stricken Nepal on Sunday as death toll soared to about 2,150 with 5,460 injured in the Himalayan country.
At least 20 were killed and 58 injured in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, after a powerful earthquake struck neighboring Nepal on Saturday, the regional disaster relief headquarters said late Sunday.
A total of 3,218 people had been killed and about 6,500 others injured in the powerful earthquake that struck Nepal at midday Saturday, the authorities said Monday morning.
One person was killed and another injured after a powerful earthquake in waters off Taiwan on Monday morning caused a fire.
Two years after an earthquake killed 196 people in Lushan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, local officials have told how they are rebuilding villages using a more patient and democratic model than has been adopted with other Chinese quakes.
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