At least 221 people were killed and 2,800 injured after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the Iran’s border with Iraq. Around 50 aftershocks were registered and more were expected, Iranian officials warned. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was … Read More
Last updated 00:06, November 13 2017 GEONET The earthquake struck off the Wellington coast. A magnitude 4.8 earthquake stuck near Wellington at 11.28pm on Sunday night, nearly a year to the day that a 7.8 earthquake hit Kaikōura. The Sunday night earthquake … Read More
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Tonga Saturday in the tectonically active Pacific region, but there was no tsunami threat, seismologists said. The tremor hit at a depth of 10 kilometres (six miles) some 90 kilometres off the … Read More
JAKARTA: A strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Indonesia on Tuesday, US seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The quake hit East Nusa Tenggara province … Read More
Natacha Pisarenko / Associated Press A family sleeps in a shelter after having been evacuated from their apartment in a large complex in Mexico City’s Tlalpan neighborhood.Displaced residents gathered outside the vacant apartment complex, awaiting a chance to enter their … Read More
The Associated PressIn this Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017 photo, a framed image of Mexico’s patron saint, the Virgin of Guadalupe, makes up part of a memorial for those who died when a five-story office and factory building was collapsed by … Read More
Getty Images MEXICO CITY — As many as 360 buildings and homes are in danger of collapse or with major damage in Mexico City nearly a week after a magnitude-7.1 earthquake collapsed 38 structures. The risk of delayed collapse is real: … Read More
The search continues Sunday for victims buried under the rubble of an office building along Avenida Alvaro Obregon in Mexico City’s Roma district. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) Maria de Jesus, 35, has two legs in casts, deep scrapes … Read More
AT LEAST 237 people have been killed after a huge 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocked central Mexico, causing hundreds of buildings to collapse in the capital, Mexico City. The quake struck at 1.15pm local time (7.15pm BST) and of the 217 … Read More
MEXICO CITY — A powerful earthquake jolted central Mexico on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway sickeningly in the capital on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that did major damage. National Civil Protection chief Luis Felipe Puente tweeted that there … Read More