Earthquake

At least two people were killed on Thursday, 12 were injured, and 35 are still missing after a landfill in the central Philippines collapsed and buried a village beneath an avalanche of garbage.

The World Health Organization is pleading with the Taliban to accept female aid workers for victims of the September 1 earthquake.

One of the worst earthquakes in Afghanistan’s history struck the border region with Pakistan on Sunday, killing over 800 people and injuring at least 2,800 more.

A 3.0 magnitude earthquake was confirmed to have occurred in New Jersey on Saturday night, with people in the surrounding areas and New York City (NYC) reporting they felt the tremor from the earthquake. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) revealed the

The tsunami unleashed by the massive 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula reached Japan on Wednesday morning.

A tsunami warning for the Russian peninsula was issued after two earthquakes, one with a magnitude of 7.4, struck in the nearby Pacific Ocean on Sunday.

Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) posted its lowest polling numbers since 2012 on Monday, a grim omen of the ruling party’s fortunes heading into this Sunday’s elections for the upper house of the National Diet, the Japanese parliament.

Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has arrested Zhang Chuanling, an executive with a corporation called China Railway Number 10 Ltd., as part of a wide-ranging investigation into the collapse of a Chinese-built skyscraper during an earthquake in Bangkok in late March.

A 5.2 magnitude earthquake hit Southern California just outside San Diego on Monday, and people received text alerts on their phones mere seconds before the quake occurred.

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Friday that the military government of Myanmar is limiting aid to victims of last week’s devastating earthquake because the victims live in areas held by insurgent forces.

The military junta that rules Myanmar admitted on Wednesday that its forces fired “warning shots” at a Chinese convoy that was attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to victims of Friday’s devastating earthquake.

The official death toll from Friday’s magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar passed 1,700, but total casualties are probably much higher.

The death toll following a violent earthquake in Southeast Asia on Friday continues to rise as officials are still assessing the damage the quake left behind, CBS News reported on Sunday.

Two violent earthquakes rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, causing buildings in the Thai capital Bangkok to sway and collapse and prompting evacuations across the city, as well as in neighboring Myanmar. Bangkok police say a high-rise building under construction collapsed when a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit the Thai capital midday on Friday, and possible casualties are not yet known.

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake slammed Myanmar and nearby Thailand on Friday, and video shows the moments buildings collapsed and people ran away in fear.

Malibu, California, which was burned by the Franklin Fire in December and the Palisades Fire in January, suffered a 4.1-magnitude earthquake on Sunday — and is apparently facing a series of similar small earthquakes in the future.

Thousands of residents and visitors have already left Santorini, frightened by the hundreds of earthquakes.

Bay Area Californians awoke to a 3.7 magnitude earthquake on Friday morning as their Los Angeles counterparts battled raging wildfires. 

A devastating earthquake rocked a remote region of Tibet near Mt Everest on Tuesday, killing at least 95 people and collapsing “many buildings.”

An earthquake with magnitude of 4.7 struck Northern California on New Year’s Day, shaking buildings as far away as Sacramento, but causing little damage and no deaths.

Protests against the communist Castro regime in Cuba continued Monday amidst near-endless power blackouts worsened by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that hit Cuba’s southeastern coast on Sunday.

LOS ANGELES, California — An earthquake measuring 5.1 magnitude rocked Los Angeles on Thursday morning just before 7:30 a.m., with the epicenter in the coastal community of Malibu, north of the city, famed for its surfing.

A volcano in southeastern Russia has erupted following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, state-owned media announced.

Japan was hit by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake on Thursday and officials have issued a “megaquake advisory” to residents.

Social media erupted with criticism when a Green Party member who is a candidate running for Senate in New Jersey pointed to the “climate crisis” as the reason behind the recent earthquake in the Northeast.

Officials say multiple aftershocks followed the 4.8-magnitude earthquake that hit the northeast early Friday.

The earthquake that shook New York and New Jersey on Friday morning took the Internet by storm as shocked residents rushed to social media.

An earthquake rattled residents of the northeast early Friday, and officials are working to determine if there was any damage.

NEW YORK — An earthquake shook the densely populated New York City metropolitan area Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said, with residents reporting they felt rumbling across the Northeast.

The Taiwanese Foreign Ministry on Thursday expressed outrage at China for stepping forward to accept messages of sympathy from around the world for the deadly earthquake that struck eastern Taiwan on Wednesday morning.

Taiwan was hit by its strongest earthquake in 25 years during rush hour on Wednesday, with nine dead, 50 missing, and over 800 injuries reported.

Taiwan struck by the largest earthquake in 25 years in the early hours of Wednesday morning, collapsing buildings and triggering landslides.

The country of Taiwan suffered immense damage on Tuesday following a 7.5 earthquake that caused multiple buildings to collapse.

Locals across several states felt an earthquake late Friday, which was centered near Prague, Oklahoma, per the U.S. Geological Survey.

A 4.5 magnitude earthquake hit southern California on Wednesday night, originating in San Bernardino and generating a shockwave that could be felt between Los Angeles and Palm Springs.

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in China, home of the oppressed Uyghur Muslims, was hit by an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 on Tuesday afternoon, the day after a massive landslide struck the southwestern province of Yunnan. The earthquake killed at least three people, while at least 31 have been killed by the landslide.