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Thursday, 11 May 2017 SHANGHAI – 8 people were killed when an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 struck in China’s northwest Xinjiang region on Thursday. 11 people were also injured. The China Earthquake Administration (CEA) said the quake occurred in the remote Taxkorgan County area of Kashgar Prefecture at a …

Saturday, 29 April 2017 JAKARTA: Indonesia’s meteorology and geophysics agency terminated a warning for tsunami in the province of North Sulawesi in central parts of the country after a 6.8-magnitude quake, an official of the agency said. “We have lifted the tsunami warning,” Iwan Kurniawan, an official of the agency …

Saturday, 29 April 2017 A massive earthquake occurred on Saturday morning near Mindanao, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers at about 4:23 a.m. local time. Meteorologists said a quake of this power could produce tsunami waves along the Filippino coast. It …

Wednesday, 26 April 2017 Tokyo – Japan’s gaffe-prone disaster reconstruction minister resigned Wednesday after remarking it was lucky the catastrophic 2011 earthquake-tsunami had hit a largely rural region rather than Tokyo. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was forced to apologise to residents of the devastated northeastern region of Tohoku, which is …

Monday, 17 April 2017 SYDNEY  – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 struck northwest of the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake was initially reported with a magnitude of 6.0 but was later downgraded by the USGS. It was …

Wednesday, 12 April 2017 MOSCOW – An earthquake struck Mindanao Island in the Philippines, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). The quake occurred at the depth of 8.3 kilometers with its epicenter about 7.9 kilometers north of the town of Osias. No information on casualties or damage from the quake has been reported at the moment. Source by: Internet

Monday, 10 April 2017 MOSCOW – A 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit the northern province of the Philippines, US Geological Survey (USGS) reported Saturday. The earthquake occurred near Batangas in the country’s Luzon province at a depth of 42.7 kilometers (27 miles). No information on casualties or damage from the quake has been provided yet. Source by: Internet

Wednesday, 5 April 2017 LONDON – A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck 76 km east-southeast of the city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. USGS said the quake occurred at a depth of 33 km. Source by: Internet

Monday, 3 April 2017 AMATRICE: Britain’s Prince Charles paid a visit on Sunday to one of the towns in central Italy devastated by a major earthquake last August, a day after locals protested against the government because of aid delays. The 6.2 magnitude earthquake killed nearly 300 people and destroyed …

Wednesday, 29 March 2017 An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 struck near Komandorskiye Ostrava in Russia’s far east on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake struck at a depth of about 33 km just off the coast in the Bering Sea. It was originally recorded with …