Earthquake News

Patna, Sep 13: As the Bihar government faces the Herculean task of rehabilitating nearly 2.5 million flood victims, it plans to study the lessons learnt after the 2001 Gujarat earthquake and the 2004 Indian ...

Tonight's earthquake just off the lower North Island west coast registered 5.2 on the Richter scale and had a focal depth of 90 kilometres.

A child advocacy group is calling on Kentucky officials to adopt regulations that would require day-care centers to develop written plans to reunite parents and their kids after earthquakes or other disasters.

Millions of Chinese have used this year's mid-Autumn Festival, which fell on Sunday, to get together with family and loved ones.

More than 1,000 parishioners from throughout the Oakland Roman Catholic Diocese are expected to gather this afternoon at the corner of 21st Street and San Pablo Avenue to say a final goodbye to the site where ...

An undersea earthquake registering 6.0 on the Richter scale struck on Sunday morning off East Timor , but there were no reports of injury or damage, Indonesian seismological officials said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's giant earthquake in May near Chengdu caused so much geologic stress in the Tibetan Plateau that it doubled the chance of more big quakes along three neighboring faults, scientists reported.

"The magnitude 7.9 quake on 12 May has brought several nearby faults closer to failure and could trigger another major earthquake in the region," the American Geophysical Union said in a statement.

This happens because of a domino-like effect where the movement of one piece of Earth's crust forces another piece to move up, down and away, geophysicists reported.

Asia Pacific News.Net Friday 12th September, 2008 Beijing, Sep 12 An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale early Friday jolted the western parts of China, the National Seismograph Network Centre said.

A strong earthquake with magnitude of 6.1 rocked Maluku province in eastern parts of Indonesia on Saturday, no initial reports of damage or casualties, meteorology and disaster management agencies said.

Hundreds fled offices and dozens of buildings were evacuated as tremors jolted Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman and other parts of the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday.

Researchers analyzing the May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China's Sichuan province have found that geological stress has significantly increased on three major fault systems in the region.

A magnitude-3.4 earthquake has jolted the California-Mexico border but there are no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

Two strong earthquakes rattled Asia on Thursday, triggering alerts for a tsunami that harmlessly lapped Japan's northern coast and another in Indonesia that didn't materialize but briefly sent residents fleeing to high ground.

The more powerful of the quakes, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0, hit off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido at a depth of about 12 miles, the country's meteorological agency said.

A 4-inch tsunami rippled to shore 35 minutes later, but there were no signs of damage.

A powerful earthquake struck southern Iran on Wednesday near Bandar Abbas, site of a major Iranian oil refinery, killing at least three people and injuring 22, officials said.

A powerful earthquake rattled north eastern Indonesia, briefly triggering a tsunami alert and sending residents fleeing from homes and buildings.

A magnitude-5.8 earthquake has rocked northern Chile, the United States Geological Survey reported.

A strong earthquake rocked southern Iran on Wednesday, killing four people and sending tremors across the Persian Gulf to the skyscrapers of Dubai.

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit northern Japan on Thursday morning, triggering a small tsunami that apparently caused no damage, Japan's Meteorological Agency said. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

The agency said the quake hit at 9:21 a.m. off the eastern coast Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island at a depth of about 12.4 miles.

A 4-inch tsunami rippled at the shore about 35 minutes after the quake.

A warning had been issued for a tsunami of up to 20 inches along the eastern coast of Hokkaido and the northeastern coast of Japan's main island of Honshu. Authorities ordered people to stay away from beaches.

The Dayan Pagoda and seven terracotta warriors that suffered light damage in the May 12 earthquake have been successfully repaired, cultural heritage officials in Shaanxi said Monday.

Taipei, Sep 9 : A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale jolted Taiwan Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.