Officials in China’s Sichuan province, which was hit by an earthquake that killed 93 last week, lowered the emergency response level as most transportation, electricity and communication services resumed, state media reported on Tuesday. The strongest earthquake to hit the province in five years killed 55 in an area known as Ganzi and 38 in… Read More Death toll from China’s Sichuan earthquake rises to 93
The death toll from a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan has risen to 86, state media reported on Thursday. Monday’s quake, the strongest to hit the province since 2017, has injured more than 270 people, while 35 are missing, CCTV news reported. Authorities have reopened roads to the epicenter… Read More Death toll from China’s Sichuan earthquake rises to 86
Two earthquakes shook Afghanistan on Tuesday, with one killing six people in the northeast of the country, officials said. The temblor early in the morning in northeastern Kunar province also injured nine people, according to Mohammad Nassim Haqqani, spokesperson for Afghanistan’s disaster ministry. The United States Geological Survey recorded a quake of magnitude 4.3 in… Read More At least six dead as two earthquakes hits northeastern Afghanistan
Chinese firefighters worked in treacherous terrain on Tuesday to help evacuate more than 11,000 people after a magnitude-6.8 quake struck China’s mountainous southwestern province of Sichuan a day earlier, killing at least 66 people. State media footage, taken at the epicentre in Luding county, showed firefighters stretchering an injured person across a makeshift bridge built… Read More Death toll from China’s Sichuan earthquake rises to 66
An earthquake in northeastern Afghanistan killed at least eight people early on Monday, and the toll could rise, the state news agency quoted a regional official as saying. The quake of magnitude 5.3 struck near the eastern city of Jalalabad in the early hours, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. “Sunday night’s earthquake has… Read More At least eight dead as earthquake hits northeastern Afghanistan
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck China’s Sichuan province on Monday, the strongest to hit the region since 2017, killing at least 21 people and shaking the provincial capital of Chengdu and more distant provinces. Some roads and homes near the epicentre were damaged by landslides, while communications were down in at least one area, state… Read More At least twenty-one dead as magnitude-6.8 earthquake strikes China’s province of Sichuan
Tens of thousands of Japanese households remained without power on Thursday morning after a magnitude 7.4 quake struck shortly before midnight, throwing a swathe of northeastern Japan into darkness, severing key transportation links and killing four. Companies including Toyota Motor Corp and chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp raced to assess the impact, with any supply chain… Read More Four dead, power supply cut following massive earthquake in northeastern Japan
A 7.5 magnitude earthquake shook the remote Amazon region of northern Peru on Sunday and was felt as far as Lima in the center of the country, destroying 75 homes but with no deaths reported. The seismological center of the Geophysical Institute of Peru (IGP) said the earthquake had a depth of 131 kilometers (81… Read More Dozens of houses destroyed as magnitude-7.5 earthquake hits northern Peru
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