earthquake

Days after devastating floods and landslides battered parts of Nepal, a 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck the country’s northwestern Mustang district on Tuesday night, with tremors felt in neighbouring districts. The earthquake occurred at…

At least three people have been lightly injured and a number of buildings damaged after an earthquake rocked southern Spain. The epicentre of the magnitude 4.8 tremor on Tuesday morning was about 10km (six miles) south of the historic city…

Sri Lanka has expressed its condolences to the people of Colombia following a devastating earthquake that caused loss of life and widespread destruction. Minister of Foreign Vijitha Herath said Sri Lanka was “deeply saddened” by the…

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake jolted southern Philippines on Friday (Oct 17), the United States Geological Survey said, a week after two powerful quakes hit the country. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, provincial…

A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the Drake Passage on Thursday, the waters between South America’s southern tip and Antarctica. Chile’s Navy Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service issued a tsunami precaution for the Chilean Antarctic…

With a tsunami hitting the coastal areas of Russia’s Kuril Islands and Japan’s large northern island of Hokkaido and warnings ringing across Pacific Islands and the US, local officials have ruled out any threat to Sri Lanka. The tsunami…

Dozens of residents have evacuated remote islands in southern Japan that have been shaken by nearly 1,600 quakes in recent weeks, the local mayor said Monday (Jul 7). There has been no major physical damage on hardest-hit Akuseki island,…

An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter Scale struck Pakistan in the wee hours of Wednesday. According to the National Center for Seismology (NCS), the tremors were felt in several parts of the country at around 2.58 am (IST). The…

An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 jolted Afghanistan on Monday, a statement by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. As per the NCS, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 10km, making it susceptible to aftershocks. In a post on…

Japan’s remote Izu islands south of Tokyo were hit by a small tsunami on Tuesday with no immediate reports of damage, after a magnitude-5.9 earthquake occurred near an unpopulated island farther south in the Pacific Ocean. A tsunami of…