TOKYO (AP) — Earthquakes early Monday again struck Japan’s north-central region of Ishikawa, still recovering from the destruction left by a powerful quake on Jan. 1, but the latest shaking caused only minor damage. A magnitude 5.9 temblor on the northern top of the Noto Peninsula was followed minutes later by a 4.8 and then […]
Los Angeles County — particularly the Pasadena and Alhambra areas — was rattled by an earthquake Sunday morning. The preliminary 3.5-magnitude quake struck four kilometers south-southwest of South Pasadena just before 9 a.m., the USGS said. The quake struck at a depth of 11.3 kilometers. Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones, who was in South Pasadena at […]
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MILAN (AP) — A women’s prison near Naples was evacuated as a precaution Tuesday following a 4.4 magnitude quake with an epicenter at an active volcano west of the southern Italian port city that forced hundreds of residents to sleep in tents or cars. No injuries and only minor damage was reported following the Monday […]
A late-night 4.0-magnitude earthquake felt by hundreds of people shook the Eureka area in California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The 16-mile deep quake hit 6 miles from Blue Lake at 11:39 p.m. on Tuesday, May 14, according to the USGS. Nearly 800 people from as far away as far away as Portland, Oregon and […]
Three hours into their hike, a team of scientists in Malaysia had found nothing. In a way, that was expected because they were looking for a mountain creature that had been feared extinct for several years. But that was about to change. An earthquake shook Borneo’s Mount Kinabalu in 2015, causing “massive landslides” and “extensive […]
By By Stelios Misinas CRETE, Greece (Reuters) – “Exercise, exercise, exercise”, read an emergency text message which alerted people on the island of Crete of a mock earthquake measuring 7.2 off the city of Heraklion. Tourists rushed to evacuate the hotel, while workers in vests offered first aid to an injured woman in a tent […]
A video sharing old earthquake images in Japan has circulated online with a false claim they were taken after a 6.3-magnitude jolt hit the country on April 17. At least eight people were reported injured in the latest quake. Japan experiences around 1,500 earthquakes every year. The vast majority are mild, and even larger quakes usually […]
A powerful jolt that struck Taiwan on April 3 caused landslides in the island’s mountainous east. However, dramatic footage of vehicles crushed by rocks on a highway circulating on social media was in fact unrelated to the disaster. The video was filmed in Peru and surfaced online weeks before the quake, Taiwan’s strongest in 25 […]
BALTIMORE — President Joe Biden on Friday will take an aerial tour of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, meet with families of the six men killed and receive an update on the massive cleanup and rebuilding efforts that he’s promised the federal government will pay for. Meanwhile, a spokesperson at the information center for […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Just after 6:30 p.m. Thursday, a preliminary report of a 4.9 magnitude earthquake rattled parts of northern California. The USGS reported the quake happening just four miles northwest of Belden, CA. A few other weaker reports came in after the initial shake, likely aftershocks. The general location of the quake’s epicenter […]
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan on Thursday condemned China as “shameless” after Beijing’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations thanked the world for its concern about a strong earthquake on the island. China claims democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory and also claims the right to speak for it on the international stage, to the fury […]