8.8 earthquake struck near the coast of south-central Chile in the early hours of Saturday, shaking buildings in the capital Santiago, 200 miles (320 km) away and triggering a tsunami along the coast. Here are some of the deadliest earthquakes since (...)
4.8 quake rocked General Santos City in Mindanao early Sunday, but state seismologists said there was no casualty or damage to property.
Radio dzBB cited initial information from the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology indicating the (...)
hit area appeared to be Ziarat, where hundreds of mostly mud and timber houses had been destroyed in five villages, Mayor Dilawar Kakar said. Some homes were buried in a landslide triggered by the quake, he said.
"There is great destruction. (...)
6.3 QUAKE STRUCK EARLY SATURDAY AND INJURED THOUSANDS MORE IN THE HEART OF DENSELY POPULATED JAVA ISLAND, IN THE COUNTRY'S WORST DISASTER SINCE THE 2004 TSUNAMI. IT ALSO TRIGGERED FEARS THAT A NEARBY RUMBLING VOLCANO WOULD ERUPT.
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9 quake struck off the northern coast of Sumatra, triggering a tsunami that spread throughout the Indian Ocean, devastating coastlines and leaving dead in 12 countries. More than 220,000 people were dead or missing in Indonesia alone.
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