Tag: Quake

Another severe earthquake hits Japan's eastern coastal areas, a foreign news agency has reported. As per details, the 6.7 quake rattled Japan while soon...

Panic gripped people as an earthquake of moderate intensity jolted Chitral on Tuesday morning while no casualty was reported. According to Met Office, the earthquake...

A rare earthquake rocked the ancient town of Lorca in southeastern Spain causing homes to collapse, damaging historic churches and killing at least 10...

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck 83 miles south-west off the Pacific island of Vanuatu, USGS monitoring said on Tuesday. The quake was 16.4 miles (26...

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday, government seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage and...

A magnitude 5.4 earthquake was recorded in eastern Kazakhstan on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties...

A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 hit Panama early Saturday, the US government reported. The epicenter of the quake, which occurred at 3:19 am local time(0819...

SYDNEY - Australia's Barrier Reef district was rocked by an unusual 5.2-magnitude earthquake Saturday, but laid-back locals said they had barely felt a thing.
The tremor struck about 3.30pm local time (0530 GMT) about 124 kilometres southeast of Townsville at a depth of 10 kilometres, according to the United States Geological Survey.
A low rumbling was felt at Magnetic Island, a 20-minute ferry ride from the mainland and part of the Great Barrier Reef, according to a

TOKYO - A strong earthquake of magnitude 5.9 hit central Japan at 11:19 am (0219 GMT), the Japan Meteorological Agency said Saturday. There was no chance of a tsunami, it said.

TOKYO - A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck off northeast Japan early on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued. The undersea quake struck at 5:57 local time at a depth of just 11.2 kilometres, 190 kilometres east of Morioka on Honshu island, it said.On March 11, a massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated northeast region of the country, leaving more than 13,000 people dead and over 15,000 missing.

TOKYO - Japan on Monday expanded the evacuation zone around its crippled nuclear plant because of high levels of accumulated radiation, as a strong aftershock rattled the area one month after a quake and tsunami sparked the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. A magnitude 6.6 tremor shook buildings in Tokyo and a wide swathe of eastern Japan on Monday evening, killing one man, knocking out power to 220,000 households and causing a brief halt to water pumping to cool 3 damaged nuclear

TOKYO - A powerful 6.6-magnitude aftershock hit northeastern Japan on Monday, triggering a brief tsunami alert and forcing the evacuation of workers battling to avert a crisis at a stricken nuclear plant.
The tremor hit exactly one month after a 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami ravaged northeastern Japan and knocked out cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, triggering the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.
"The company ordered workers to withdraw and stay in a

MANILA - A moderate 5.2-magnitude earthquake jolted the Philippines early Saturday, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or tsunami warnings issued.
The earthquake struck at 2:29 am (18:29 GMT) around 105 kilometres (65 miles) southwest of Olongapo on the Philippines' Luzon island and 125 kms southwest of the capital Manila, the US Geological Survey said.
It hit at a relatively shallow depth of 24 kms (15 miles), the USGS said.
People in the

TOKYO - A strong earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale shook northeast and eastern Japan late on Thursday, and a tsunami warning was issued for the northeastern coast of Japan, an area badly hit by the March 11 earthquake.
Japan's NHK public television repeatedly said those in areas where the tsunami warnings were issued should evacuate to higher ground. However, the warning was withdrawn after some time.

SANTIAGO - A magnitude 5.9 quake struck northern Chile on Saturday but the Chilean emergency office ONEMI said there were no reports of damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered 84 miles (135 km) northeast of Iquique and had a depth of 51.8 miles (83.3 km).

TOKYO - Japan's domestic sales of new cars, trucks and buses, last month, dropped 37 percent from a year earlier, as the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami hit production and supplies to auto dealers.Auto sales aggregated 279,389 in March, the seventh-straight monthly decline, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said on Friday.
The 9.0 magnitude earthquake, Japan's biggest ever recorded, three weeks ago unleashed a tsunami that devastated swathes of the northeast

TOKYO - A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit Thursday in an area of northeastern Japan jolted by a massive quake and tsunami disaster earlier this month, the US Geological Survey said.
The quake struck at 4:15 pm (0715 GMT) about 417 kilometres (259 miles) northeast of Tokyo, at a depth of 39.6 kilometers (24.6 miles), the USGS said.
The epicentre was off the coast of Miyagi prefecture, where a huge tsunami swept away houses and thousands of people on March 11.
No tsunami