A 5.6-magnitude earthquake scattered roof tiles and knocked over houses Saturday in northwest China’s Gansu province, state media said. Eleven people were taken to area hospitals with
A magnitude-6.1 earthquake shook Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua early Friday, causing scattered damage in a coastal town. No casualties were immediately reported. At least two houses
Desperate Afghans clawed through rubble in the dead of the night in search of missing loved ones after a strong earthquake killed some 800 people and
One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia’s Far East early yesterday, sending tsunami waves into Japan and Hawaii and across the Pacific. No substantial damage
Ports on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia near the 8.8 magnitude quake's epicenter flooded as residents fled inland, and frothy, white waves washed up to the shore
The death toll in last week’s massive earthquake in Myanmar has passed 2,000, state media said as accounts of some people’s last moments emerged: Two hundred
Thai authorities said yesterday they are investigating why a single office tower under construction in Bangkok collapsed during an earthquake Friday that otherwise caused limited damage in
Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai has sent a message of sympathy to Myanmar’s leader, Min Aung Hlaing, following the massive earthquake that struck Myanmar on
A strong 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit near Tonga last night, prompting an initial tsunami warning that was later lifted for the Pacific island country. The U.S. Geological
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Taiwan early yesterday, leaving 27 people with minor injuries and some reported damage. The quake hit at 12:17 a.m. and was centered
A powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck just off the coast of Vanuatu yesterday, causing widespread destruction in the South Pacific island nation as the injured began arriving at
The quake hit waters 7.7km south-east of the capital, Lisbon, and 74km south-west of Setúbal, EuroNews has reported. An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 5.4 on
An earthquake measuring 7.2 magnitude struck off Taiwan’s eastern coast during rush hour yesterday morning, sending tremors felt in the capital Taipei as well as in southern
The strongest earthquake in a quarter-century rocked Taiwan during the morning rush hour yesterday, killing nine people, trapping dozens in quarries and sending some residents scrambling
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck a sparsely populated part of China’s western Xinjiang region early yesterday, causing extensive damage but injuring just six people in freezing cold weather,
Hundreds of temporary one-room housing units were being set up yesterday in northwest China for survivors of an earthquake that destroyed more than 14,000 homes and
Caritas Macau has reportedly received nearly MOP400,000 in cash donations over the past several days since it commenced an appeal for victims of last week’s Turkey-Syria earthquake.
As rescuers still pulled a lucky few from the rubble six days after a pair of earthquakes devastated southeast Turkey and northern Syria, Turkish officials detained or issued arrest
Thousands who lost their homes in a catastrophic earthquake huddled around campfires and clamored for food and water in the bitter cold, three days after
Thinly stretched rescue teams worked through the night in Turkey and Syria, pulling more bodies from the rubble of thousands of buildings toppled by a catastrophic
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