TOKYO( AFP): A 6.1-magnitude earthquake shook the Japanese capital Tokyo and surrounding areas on Thursday evening( Oct 7), but no tsunami warning was issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency( JMA) said.... Initial information from the JMA put the epicentre of the quake in Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo, and said it struck at 10. 41pm( 1341 GMT) with a depth of 80km.... The US Geological Survey put the quake's strength at magnitude 5.9 with a depth of 61km....

SUVA, Jan.... 24( Xinhua)--An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 jolted 43 km SW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu, at 1: 33 local time on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey( USGS) said. There were no immediate reports of casualty or damage. The epicenter, with a depth of 37.2 km, was determined to be at 18. 009 degrees south latitude and 168. 016 degrees east longitude, according to the USGS. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not immediately issue a tsunami warning based on the quake. Pacific isla

Port-au-Prince, the capital, also saw heavy rains.... Forecasters said it could be a hurricane before hitting Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The quake nearly wrecked some towns in the latest disaster to befall the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation.... Relatives quickly came to take most to private embalming services or immediate burial....

A signboard is seen fallen in Yilan County, northeastern Taiwan, after a magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck on Oct.... In Hualien County, eastern Taiwan, a woman was injured by falling rocks, while Taipei reported people trapped in an elevator.... In New Taipei City, the quake caused a crane to break and bend 90 degrees while suspended above the ground over a high-rise under construction, but nobody was hurt....

Join our Whatsapp channel LOS ANGELES: A magnitude seven earthquake hit off the northern California coast on Thursday, prompting a tsunami warning for a large stretch of the California and Oregon coasts. Some 4.7 million residents of California and Oregon were under the tsunami warning, the National Weather Service said.... But the tsunami warning was lifted an hour later. San Francisco and a large part of the surrounding Bay Area were under the tsunami warning. The quake, which hit at a shallo

JAKARTA( AFP)-A 5.9 magnitude quake struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island on Monday( Nov 1), the United States Geological Survey said, but there was no tsunami warning or immediate reports of damage. The offshore quake hit at a shallow depth of six kilometres, about 255 kilometres south of the town of Sinabang. Shallow quakes tend to do more damage than deep tremors. Indonesia experiences frequent quakes due to its position on the Pacific" Ring of Fire", an arc of intense seismic ac

KUALA LUMPUR( March 28): A weak earthquake with a magnitude of 3.8 on the Richter scale hit Beluran, Sabah at 8. 39pm Monday( March 28) night. According to a statement from the Malaysian Meteorological Department( MetMalaysia), the quake with a depth of 7km occurred 47km east of Pitas, Sabah. Tremors could be felt in Beluran and the surrounding areas, it added.... – Bernama....

However, the US Geological Survey said deaths could be in the" thousands" with tens of thousands of injuries. Witnesses told of people desperately trying to rescue those trapped under rubble. Sephora Pierre Louis, from Port-au-Prince, said:" I heard people screaming.... At least they know to go outside.... In 2010 they didn't know what to do." Get the latest three-day weather forecast where you live....

The quake that occurred at 5: 33 a.m. registered 3 on the country's seismic intensity scale of 7 in the prefectures of Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki and Tochigi, with the focus about 40 kilometers below the surface off the coast, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.... There were no immediate reports of injuries or property damage from the two quakes.... Font Size S M L Print Timeline 0....

PINGYUAN: At least 23 people were injured and dozens of buildings collapsed, state media reported, after a shallow 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck eastern China in the early hours of Sunday. The US Geological Survey said the quake struck at 2: 33am, 26 kilometres south of the city of Dezhou in Shandong province, at a depth of 10 kilometres.... Locals helped with the cleanup operation in one village, with a group of four elderly women putting a low brick wall back together outside an overgrown y