A powerful magnitude-6.5 earthquake shook Nicaragua’s Pacific Coast Saturday at 11:34 a.m. local time.
A recent study claims the Pacific Coast, mainly British Columbia, is due to experience a high magnitude, megathrust earthquake.
"It's been four days, four days. I haven't seen any government official bother to ask us how we have been coping," a Sichuan villager says.
Volunteers may not be praised or even wanted in China in the aftermath of the latest earthquake to hit Sichuan province.
U.S. Geological Survey data indicate the temblor this weekend was the fifth-largest to pound the province since 1923.
The earthquake, China's worst in three years, occurred Saturday morning in Lushan county near Ya'an city.
Baluchistan holds large reserves of gas, as well as gold, cooper, uranium and oil, it also enjoys a 600-mile coastline.
Iran, Papua New Guinea and Oklahoma all experienced earthquakes on the same day.
Early reports indicate at least 45 deaths, in Pakistan and Iran, in Tuesday's 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Iran.
The Iranian earthquake that hit near the Bushehr nuclear plant killed 37 people, injured 850 and left hundreds homeless.
The quake struck the southern coast of Iran near the town of Kaki and the city of Bushehr, near the Bushehr nuclear power plant.
Two years after the Tohoku, Japan, earthquake and tsunami comes Tsunami Preparedness Week and a new study.
A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck southern Mexico on Tuesday.
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck just outside Guatemala City. No injuries or significant damage have been reported.
The quake was centered near the rural community of Anza, Calif., about 100 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
A strong earth quake with a magnitude of 6.2 in the Richter scale hit Japanese capital Tokyo, Monday, causing the buildings to sway for more than 30 seconds, national broadcaster NHK reported. The broadcaster said there was no alert issued for tsunami.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported that a 5.1 magnitude earthquake hit Nevada on Tuesday at 7:15 p.m. EST.
North Korea said Tuesday it has tested a "miniaturized" nuclear device in defiance of U.N. orders to stop building atomic weapons.
Six people were killed as an earthquake triggered a tsunami that sent massive waves crashing into several South Pacific islands.
A tsunami warning has been issued for South Pacific islands after a 8.0 magnitude quake struck off the Solomon Islands.
A cholera outbreak in Cuba has infected at least 51 people in the capital Havana - a city of 2.2 million residents.
A 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck near the coast of northern Japan on Tuesday.
