53 killed in massive 6.8 magnitude tremor in Tibet
At least 53 people were killed and over 60 others injured following a massive 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Dingri County in Xigaze City in the Tibet Autonomous Region on Tuesday.
At least 53 people were killed and over 60 others injured following a massive 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Dingri County in Xigaze City in the Tibet Autonomous Region on Tuesday.
A powerful earthquake of 7.1 magnitude struck Nepal on Tuesday morning, sending tremors across parts of North India, including Bihar, West Bengal, Sikkim and Delhi-NCR.
On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It was the deadliest natural disaster this century, and was probably the deadliest tsunami in human history.
A second earthquake, measuring about 3 on the Richter scale rocked the Mahabubnagar district in Telangana today, just days after the first one, which had its epicentre in the Mulugu district. Locals initially panicked after feeling the tremors at about 12:15 pm today.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 shook parts of Northern California, temporarily forcing a tsunami warning that led to evacuations in some coastal areas of Northern California and the San Francisco Bay.
The tremors were felt at 7.14 a.m. with an intensity of 4.5 at a depth of 10 kms, as per the Centre’s National Center for Seismology (NCS).
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck off Japan's western Ogasawara Islands on Monday morning, the local weather agency said.
A 7.2 magnitude quake rocked Peru on Friday, the US Geological Survey said.
At least four people were killed and more than 120 others injured in a magnitude-5.0 earthquake that jolted Kashmar County in the northeastern Iranian province of Khorasan Razavi, the media reported.
A 6.0 magnitude offshore earthquake rocked Leyte province in the central Philippines on Friday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.
