The death toll of a major earthquake that hit the Iran-Iraq border overnight rose to 328 dead on the Iranian side of the border on Monday, the coroner's office said.
At least another 2,530 were injured in the 7.3-magnitude quake that hit late Sunday, state television reported the office as saying. A previous toll stood at 207 dead and 1,700Read more
A 7.3 magnitude quake which struck the Iran-Iraq border late Sunday has killed 30 people on the Iranian side, a senior official said on state television.
"For the moment, we have 30 deaths in different cities," Mojtaba Nikkerdar, the deputy governor of Kermanshah province said, underscoring that the toll could rise. The earlier count had stated seven fatalities.Read more
The bodies of eight foreigners have been recovered from the rubble of the quake that struck Mexico City, officials said Friday.
The remains were those of four Taiwanese women, a Korean man, a Spanish man, a Panamanian woman and an Argentine man, Mexico's high court said in a statement citing information from the forensic instituteRead more
A strong magnitude 6.1 quake hit off the east coast of Japan early Thursday but authorities did not issue a tsunami warning.
It struck 281 kilometres (175 miles) east of the city of Kamaishi on Honshu, the largest Japanese island, at a shallow depth of just 10 kilometres, the United States Geological Survey said.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said noRead more
At least 49 people were killed when a powerful, 7.1-magnitude quake hit Mexico on Tuesday, authorities said.
The count was an initial toll, given as emergency crews and hundreds of volunteers were digging through the debris of collapsed buildings looking for survivors and bodies.Read more
Rescuers on the Italian holiday island of Ischia on Tuesday pulled the last child free from rubble after a magnitude-4.0 earthquake toppled buildings and left two people dead.
Eleven-year old Ciro was recovered alive almost 16 hours after the quake hit. Firemen hours earlier saved his seven-year old brother Mattias and seven-month old baby Pasquale.
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A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck a village deep in southern Iran on Friday, killing four people and injuring four others, Iranian state television reported.
The TV said the quake struck in the morning hours in the village of Saifabad near the town of Khonj, about 1,000 kilometers, or 620 miles, south of the capital, Tehran. According to the TV report,Read more
An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale jolted 175km WSW of Port Hardy, Canada at 03:13:57 GMT on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The epicenter, with a depth of 11.0 km, was initially determined to be at 50.25 degrees north latitude and 129.79 degrees west longitude.
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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 hit eastern Japan on Wednesday, but no tsunami warning was issued, public boradcaster NHK said.
There were no immediate reports of damages or injuries.
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An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted 168km WSW of Abepura, Indonesia at 22:39:31 GMT on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The epicenter, with a depth of 50.67 km, was initially determined to be at 3.1272 degrees south latitude and 139.1478 degrees east longitude.
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