2nd large quake hits off Northern Calif in less than month; no major injury, damage reported Residents of Northern California's Humboldt County were ...
Earthquake-hit Haiti faces a high risk of possibly damaging aftershocks for at least 30 days and is set to suffer further tremors for ...
The quake that hit Haiti on Tuesday was a killer that had massed its forces for a century and a half before unleashing them against a wretchedly poor country, turning buildings into death traps, experts said on Wednesday. Scientists painted a tableau ...
The quake that struck Haiti on Tuesday erupted just below the surface on a notorious fault where two plates of the Earth's crust jostle and grind, scientists said on Wednesday. "It was a very shallow earthquake, occurring at a depth of around ...
A moderate 5.6-magnitude earthquake rocked the eastern Indonesian province of Maluku Tuesday but there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning was issued, officials said. The quake struck at 5:58 pm (1058 GMT), 120 kilometres (75 miles) northeast of ...
A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands in the western Pacific on Monday with the potential to cause a local tsunami, seismologists said. The US Geological Survey said the quake struck about 103 kilometres from the island town of ...
A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands in the western Pacific on Monday with the potential to cause a local tsunami, seismologists said. The US Geological Survey said the 7.2 magnitude quake was measured at a depth of about ...
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines lowered the alert at its restive Mayon volcano by one notch on Saturday after noticing signs of decreased activity, and cut to 6 kilometers (4 miles) a no-go zone at the mountain. Residents close to the no-go ...
A strong quake with a magnitude of 6.7 hit off the Indonesian island of Maluku on Saturday, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of a tsunami or casualties. The quake struck at 15:57 pm local time (0657 GMT) about 152 ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A strong earthquake struck off Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands in the east of the country on Saturday, but there was no tsunami alert issued and no reports of immediate damage, the country's meteorology agency said. The U.S. Geological Survey pegged ...
Supporters and relatives of Venezuela's former President Rafael Antonio Caldera attend his wake in Caracas, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009. Caldera, the two-time president who helped establish democracy in Venezuela and issued the pardon that allowed Hugo Chavez to rise to power, died ...
Former Venezuelan President Rafael Caldera dies at 93; helped establish nation's democracy Rafael Antonio Caldera, a two-time president who helped establish democracy in Venezuela and issued the pardon that allowed Hugo Chavez to rise to power, died Thursday in Caracas, his son ...
