Guatemala City: A strong earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of Guatemala on Wednesday, rocking the capital and shaking buildings as far away as Mexico City and El Salvador. Guatemala's emergency management agency said on its Twitter account that it had received preliminary reports of one death from the quake. The US Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said there was a possibility of a local tsunami, within 100 or 200 miles...
01:49 AM, Nov 08, 2012
Washington: A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off Guatemala's Pacific Coast on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said. The temblor was centered about 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Champerico, Guatemala, at depth of 20.5 miles (33 km), USGS said. The quake was originally reported at a magnitude of 7.3. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue a tsunami warning. ...
10:39 PM, Nov 07, 2012
Honolulu: Hawaii was hit by a tsunami on Saturday night prompting the authorities to order at least 100,000 people on the island state to move to higher ground. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the first tsunami wave was three feet high and less forceful than expected. Some forecasts had predicted a wave of up to six feet high. "The tsunami arrived about when we expected it should," Senior Geophysicist...
05:12 PM, Oct 28, 2012
Anchorage, Alaska: The first wave from a small tsunami has been reported in a southeast Alaska community. State officials say a wave with a height of about 4 inches was measured in Craig late on Saturday evening. That was smaller than earlier forecasts, which said the wave could have been up to 1 foot. Parts of southeast Alaska and the Canadian coast remain under a tsunami warning. The warning was...
11:22 AM, Oct 28, 2012
Washington: The US Coast Guard is warning people in far southern Alaska to take precautions after a tsunami warning was issued for coastal areas of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. The warning was sparked by a strong earthquake on Saturday night that shook off the west coast of Canada. The US Geological Survey says the 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit in the Queen Charlotte Islands area, followed by a 5.8-magnitude aftershock several...
09:27 AM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: A slight intensity earthquake epicentred in West Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh hit the region early Thursday today, the Met Department said. The quake measured 4.0 on the Richter scale, a Ministry of Earth Sciences release said here. It said the earthquake hit at around 2:38 am. There were no immediate reports of any injuries or damage. ...
07:48 AM, Oct 25, 2012
Jabalpur/Raipur: Mild tremors were felt in the bordering districts of Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh this morning. No loss of life or property has been reported so far. Mild shocks were experienced at about 8.03 AM in Sarguja division of Chhattisgarh and Jabalpur-Umaria-Shahdol area of Madhya Pradesh. The epicentre of the earthquake, of magnitude 5 on the Richter scale, was about 150 kms from Jabalpur division, Raipur Met office director ML...
11:54 AM, Oct 18, 2012
Shillong: A 5.1-magnitude quake jolted the northeastern states early Wednesday, authorities here said. The quake occurred at 12.08 a.m. The epicentre was in Assam's Sonitpur district bordering Arunachal Pradesh, the regional seismological centre said. The tremor was felt in Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. There was no immediate report of damage or casualty. India's northeastern region is considered the sixth major earthquake-prone belt in the world. ...
01:59 AM, Oct 03, 2012
Washington: A 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit southwestern Colombia on Sunday, the US Geological Survey reported. The quake was centered 28 miles (45 km) south of Popayan, Colombia, close to the Ecuador border. The initial magnitude was reported to be 7.3. ...
10:07 PM, Sep 30, 2012
Chungthang: One year on and we go back and find people still battling those scars everyday. Chungthang, one of the worst affected areas during the 2011 Sikkim earthquake looks almost frozen in time. People here continue to live with the gaping cracks in unsafe buildings ducking death everyday. While some like 56-year-old Paden live cramped with their lives belongings in homes put together with borrowed tins. One of the quake...
09:42 PM, Sep 20, 2012
Chungthang: It's been a year since a powerful earthquake rocked Sikkim wiping out many lives. CNN-IBN visited Chungthang, one of the worst-affected areas, where survivors are reminded of the trauma every day. Chungthang looks almost frozen in time. People continue to live with gaping cracks in unsafe buildings ducking death everyday. While some like 56-year-old Paden Lepcha live cramped with their lives belongings in homes put together with borrowed tins....
09:53 AM, Sep 18, 2012
Protest against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant is growing. One of the fears highlighted by the protesters is the threat of seismological activity on the nuclear power plant.Most of India falls in the moderate risk to very high risk seismic zones and so do a majority of India's nuclear reactors. The map below plots India's nuclear power plants on a seismic map. ...
01:24 PM, Sep 13, 2012
Beijing: Twin earthquakes and a spate of aftershocks struck southwestern China on Friday, toppling thousands of houses and sending boulders cascading across roads. At least 80 people were killed and hundreds injured in the remote mountainous area, and more than 100,000 residents were evacuated. Damage was preventing rescuers from reaching outlying towns, and communications were disrupted after the midday quakes hit along the borders of Guizhou and Yunnan provinces, a...
09:56 AM, Sep 08, 2012
Beijing: At least 64 people were killed and 715 others injured on Friday when a shallow earthquake followed by a series of aftershocks jolted the mountainous southwest China, triggering landslides and toppling over 20,000 homes. The 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit the border area of Yiliang county in Yunnan province and Weining county in the neighbouring Guizhou province at 11:19 am local time, according to China Earthquake Networks Centre (CENC). The...
07:21 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Beijing: At least 24 people were killed, 150 others injured and over 20,000 houses damaged on Friday in a 5.7 magnitude earthquake followed by a series of aftershocks in southwest China's Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. The quake hit the border area of Yiliang county in Yunnan and Weining county of the neighbouring Guizhou province at 11:19 am local time, the officials media reported. The depth of its epicentre was about...
02:12 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Nosara, Costa Rica: A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and a wide swath of Central America on Wednesday. There were no immediate accounts of injuries, but communications were down near the epicenter. The USGS said the 8:42 am quake struck about 38 miles (60 kilometers) from the town of Liberia. It was centered about 25 miles (41 kilometers) below the surface. The magnitude initially was estimated at 7.9. In...
09:14 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Guwahati: A mild intensity earthquake shook Assam and parts of the north-eastern region on Tuesday. The quake with a magnitude of 3.1 on the Richter scale shook the region at 1:13 pm. The epicentre of the quake was in central Assam's Morigaon region. There was no report of damage to life or property so far, officials said. There are also reports of tremors being felt in some parts of the...
03:14 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Manila: A 7.6-magnitude quake struck off the eastern coast of the Philippines late on Friday, killing at least one person in a house collapse, knocking out power in several towns and generating negligible tsunami surges. A tsunami alert originally was issued for several countries in the region including Indonesia and Japan and for Pacific islands as far away as the Northern Marianas, but they all were later lifted, the Pacific...
09:31 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Manila: An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter Scale rocked the coast of Philippines on Friday. Following the earthquake, tsunami warnings were issued for Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan and Japan. Tsunami alerts were also issued for Papua New Guinea and other islands in the Pacific, including the US state of Hawaii. The NOAA Tsunami Center later lifted a warning for Japan, Taiwan and several other Pacific islands. "Strong earthquake here in...
06:52 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Colorado: The US Geological Survey is reporting that a strong magnitude-7.4 earthquake has struck off the coast of El Salvador and a tsunami warning has been issued. There were no immediate reports of damages or injuries after the quake struck at 10:37 pm on Sunday. The earthquake was located 86 miles (138 kilometers) south-southwest of San Miguel, the USGS reported on its web site. The temblor took place at a...
11:35 AM, Aug 27, 2012
