Authorities are coordinating extensive cleanup efforts following the strongest earthquake to hit the northern part of the U.S. state of California in 25 years. A 6.0-magnitude quake shook the region early Sunday, injuring more than 100 people, causing major damage to buildings, igniting fires and knocking out power to thousands. Some of the damaged structures […]
A 6.0 earthquake struck California’s wine country early on Sunday morning rattling residents there at just before 3:30 am. Only a handful of people were injured in the quake with three people admitted for broken bones and a couple of others for heart attack admitted as a result of the rattler. Another 120 people were treated […]
Near real-time analysis of the April 1 earthquake in Iquique, Chile, showed that the 8.2 event occurred in a gap on the fault unruptured since 1877 and that the April event was not what the scientists had expected, according to an international team of geologists. “We assumed that the area of the 1877 earthquake would […]
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck in the southwest province of Yunnan early today, hundreds are suspected death in the devastation. The quake originated at a depth of less than one mile with disastrous effect. Among the buildings that collappsed in the remote mountainous region was a school. An estimated 12,000 other structures are estimated to […]