A 4.4 magnitude earthquake shook south California at 6.25 am PDT. The quake was centered in the San Fernando Valley and occurred six miles from Beverly Hills, seven miles from Century City and seven miles from Santa Monica at a depth of five miles.
Saying that continued storage of radioactive water is not a realistic strategy, International Atomic Energy Agency Chief Yukiya Amano suggested that some of the contaminated water be released into the Pacific Ocean after treatment.
100,000 coastal Chileans were evacuated inland after a 6.7 magnitude earthquake hit that country at 6:16 pm at epicenter.
Searchers continue to comb through the rubble of the collapsed apartment buildings in New York searching for more survivors after a suspected gas leak demolished the building on Wednesday and killed at least seven people there.