A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck a remote area in southwest China's Sichuan Province Tuesday night, leaving seven people dead and 88 injured, including 21 seriously, by 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.
AtleasttwopeoplewerekilledafterahugeearthquakestrucknearapopularholidaydestinationofftheTurkishcoastonThursday,reportedAFP.AccordingtotheUSGeologicalSurvey(USGS
A6.4-magnitudeearthquakestruckoffthecoastofPapuaNewGuineaonThursday,38kmsouth-south-eastofTaron,offtheislandofNewIreland.InitialU.S.GeologicalSurveyreportssugge
Indonesia and Japan will carry out joint research on earthquake to improve capability of producing accurate earthquake prediction, an Indonesian official said here on Monday.
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AninternationalteamofresearcherssuggeststhatsedimentfromtheHimalayasandTibetanplateaumighthaveincreasedtheseverityofthecatastrophic2004Sumatraearthquake.Erodedo
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck close to the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific Ocean, just days after the archipelago was hit by another strong earthquake, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Friday.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted northeastern and eastern Japan on Thursday morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. No tsunami warning was issued.
A civil rescue team from China arrived at the quake-affected areas in Italy Thursday evening and has started rescue work there, official sources here said.
The death toll hit 159 in a major earthquake in central Italy as rescuers were working through night to search and dig out survivors on Wednesday.
The death toll in a strong earthquake in central Italy has risen to 14, authorities said Wednesday.
On the 40th anniversary of the Tangshan earthquake, President Xi Jinping said the country's disaster prevention, reduction and relief capabilities should be improved.
Even though Yang Zhensheng has no memories of his own of the earthquake that flattened his hometown shortly before his birth, the disaster will forever be part of his life -- he is named after it.
For many in Tangshan, a city leveled by an earthquake 40 years ago, the memories of the disaster are still vivid.
The Nepalese National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the opposition party in the country have slammed the government for slow action in the post-quake reconstruction.
The impact of the magnitude-7.3 temblor that hit Kumamoto Prefecture on April 16 was compounded by a small earthquake that struck shortly after in neighboring Oita Prefecture, seismologists say.
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