Chinese court sentences dissident who criticized govt over Sichuan earthquake to 3 years A veteran dissident was sentenced Monday to three years in ...
Turkey is determined to build a nuclear power plant and will launch a new project to replace a failed tender, Energy Minister Taner ...
Magnitude 6.6 earthquake off Canada's western coast Seismologists say a earthquake struck off Canada's pacific coast province of British Columbia. The U.S. Geological Survey said Tuesday the 6.6-magnitude quake's epicenter is 414 miles (666 kilometers) northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia. There were ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck in the Queen Charlotte Islands region off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, on Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. local time (1530 GMT), the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake was centered 162 miles southwest ...
4.6-magnitude earthquake shakes remote area of California desert The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-4.6 earthquake has shaken a remote area of the Mojave Desert in Southern California. The 1:21 p.m. Monday tremor southeast of the community of Trona is the latest ...
Taiwan plans to build its first undersea seismic station, designed to improve the island's early warning system and save valuable seconds when earthquakes strike, officials said. The station, which is due to come into service in 2011, would help reduce the margin ...
A state-of-the-art underwater robot called BOB may hold the key to protecting millions of people around Turkey's biggest city against a massive earthquake scientists say is all but inevitable. Submersed into the dark waters of the Marmara Sea off Istanbul, BOB is ...
Strong earthquake strikes northern Chile; no major damage reported A strong earthquake struck northern Chile early Friday, briefly knocking out power to a city but otherwise causing no major damages, authorities said. The 6.5-magnitude quake's epicenter was between the cities of Iquique ...
A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 hit off the Pacific island nation of Fiji late Monday but it was too deep to generate a destructive tsunami, US geologists said. The quake struck at 10:44 pm (1044 GMT) at a depth ...
Two people were killed and dozens injured after a strong quake with a magnitude of 6.7 rocked the Indonesian island of Sumbawa on Monday, officials and the state news agency Antara said. The two fatalities occurred when buildings collapsed, the agency said. ...
Residents ride a motorcycle passing a damaged building of a 6.7 magnitude in the town of Bima, on Indonesia's Sumbawa island, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. The strong undersea earthquake killed at least two people, while injuring dozens and damaged buildings on the ...
Powerful undersea earthquake in central Indonesia kills 1, hurts dozens on remote island A powerful undersea earthquake killed one person, injured dozens and damaged hundreds of houses on a remote island in central Indonesia, officials said Monday. At least 20 people were ...
