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TOKYO — A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit off Japan's southern coast Friday, according to Japan's Meteorological Agency. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The agency said there was no danger of damage from a tsunami, though there may be a small tidal increase. The quake hit off the northeastern coast of Amami Oshima island in southern Japan at a depth of 37 miles. The small island is about 800 miles southwest of Tokyo. The offshore quake also shook Kagoshima and dozens of towns on the southern main island of Kyushu, but the temblor was not felt in...

ISLAMABAD – A strong earthquake hit Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains Thursday, shaking large areas of the country and neighboring Pakistan, officials said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the quake, which struck at 10:14 p.m. (1744 GMT) and was centered in a remote part of the Hindu Kush mountains, about 160 miles (250 kilometers) north of Kabul. Given the area's isolation it could take many hours for such reports to emerge. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.0, though Pakistani officials said it was 6.1. Tremors were felt in Kabul,...

A strong earthquake has shaken buildings in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 and was centered in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. That's according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake was felt in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.

Just had a sudden sharp quake here

Earthquake in Vanuatu - 7.8 22.03.15 UTC

An 8.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the northwest of Santo, Vanuatu, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Wednesday. The epicenter of the quake was located 232 miles north-northwest of Santo, Vanuatu, at a depth of 20.5 miles, the agency said. There were no immediate reports of injuries...

<p>Huge earthquakes can weaken seismic faults on the other side of the world, scientists in California said on Wednesday. Their study coincided with a major 8.0-magnitude quake in the Pacific, unleashing a tsunami that killed scores of people in the Samoan islands and Tonga.</p>

Earthquake Details Magnitude 6.7 Date-Time Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 22:48:56 UTCThursday, August 13, 2009 at 07:48:56 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 32.760°N, 140.367°E Depth 96.6 km (60.0 miles) Region IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION Distances 65 km (40 miles) SE of Hachijo-jima, Izu Islands, Japan305 km (190 miles) SE of Shizuoka, Honshu, Japan325 km (205 miles) S of TOKYO, Japan330 km (205 miles) SE of Hamamatsu, Honshu, Japan Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 7.1 km (4.4 miles); depth +/- 20.2 km (12.6 miles) Parameters NST=146, Nph=146, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=0.91 sec, Gp= 58°,M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw),...

A massive magnitude 7.6 quake struck in the Indian Ocean off India's Andaman Islands, triggering a tsunami watch for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Monday. The USGS said the quake, initially reported as a magnitude 7.7, was 20.6 miles deep and was centered 160 miles north of Port Blair in the Andaman Islands.

BREAKING NEWS - The USGS issues a tsunami warning after 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits off New Zealand. The epicenter of the quake was located about 100 miles west of the city of Invercargill, on South Island.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – A 4.7-magnitude earthquake shook central California, less than a week after a pair of similar temblors rattled the highly populated southern part of the state. The United States Geological Survey said Saturday's quake struck at 2258 GMT, at a depth of just 0.062 miles, and occurred some 7 miles from the town of Keeler, and 200 miles north of Los Angeles. There were no immediate reports of injuries or major damage. The reading was based on the open-ended Moment Magnitude scale, now used by US seismologists, which measures the area of the fault that ruptured and...

BREAKING NEWS — A moderate earthquake rocked the Los Angeles region late Sunday that was felt by many people, but there were no immediate reports of any major injuries or damage. The magnitude-5.0 quake hit at 8:39 p.m. (0339 GMT), about 10 miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles, near Inglewood, according to a preliminary report by the U.S. Geological Survey. At least two aftershocks shook the area minutes later, including the largest at magnitude-3.1. The quake jiggled the greater Los Angeles region and was felt as far south as San Diego, said USGS seismologist Susan Hough.

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake centered near Malibu rattled lots of nerves across Southern California Friday evening, but there were no reports of any injuries or serious damage. It was followed a few hours later by a 3.1 shaker, which went largely unnoticed by most people. The U.S. Geological Survey said the first temblor struck in the Santa Monica Mountains at 6:11 p.m., about 7 miles northwest of Malibu. The second one struck at 10:34 p.m., in the same area. The larger quake jiggled the greater Los Angeles region during afternoon rush hour and was felt as far north as Lancaster...

The United States said Monday it would donate 50,000 dollars in emergency aid to Italy after a powerful earthquake killed at least 100 people. "We send our heartfelt condolences to the families of those killed in the earthquake. Our embassy in Rome will provide 50,000 (dollars) in emergency relief funding," State Department spokesman Robert Wood told reporters. Italian authorities told the United States they did not need rescue teams, Wood said. President Barack Obama earlier offered his condolences on a visit to Turkey and voiced hope that the United States could send rescuers.

At Least 6 Dead as Buildings Fall in Quake in Italy By RACHEL DONADIO Published: April 6, 2009 ROME — At least six people, four of them children, died and others were injured when an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 shook central Italy early Monday morning, seriously damaging buildings in the mountainous Abruzzo Region east of Rome, officials told Italian news media. The New York Times Related Times Topics: Earthquakes The epicenter was in L’Aquila, a picturesque Medieval fortress hill town, where a number of people were trapped under rubble, officials said. The situation is “extremely critical, as many...

Just had a small quake here in Rancho Cucamonga.... Stay tuned for more details

Earthquake strikes northern California: USGS Dec 26 02:57 PM US/Eastern A 4.5 magnitude earthquake struck northern California on Friday, the US Geological Survey said, revising an earlier report of a stronger quake. The tremor occurred at 4:19 am (1219 GMT) with the epicenter three kilometers (two miles) northeast of the small town of East Quincy, and 163 kilometers (102 miles) northeast of the state capital Sacramento, according to the USGS. -excerpt-

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – People in a vast seismic zone in the southern and midwestern United States would face catastrophic damage if a major earthquake struck there and should ensure that builders keep that risk in mind, a government report said on Thursday. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said if earthquakes strike in what geologists define as the New Madrid Seismic Zone, they would cause "the highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States." FEMA predicted a large earthquake would cause "widespread and catastrophic physical damage" across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and...

(English-language translation) A strong earthquake was felt throughout all of Puerto Rico, with the strongest intensity in the town of Las Piedras, where the Seismic Network reported damage. The quake had an intensity of VI according to the Modified Mercalli Scale which measures earthquakes on a scale of I to X. Those measuring VI are characterized by a strong quake with a potential to cause slight structural damage. "At the moment of generating this bulletin damage has been reported; additional reports of minor damage can be expected considering the size and location of this earthquake," the Seismic Network reported on...

Excerpt - JAKARTA, Aug 26 (Reuters) - A strong undersea earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale struck off Indonesia's Java island on Tuesday, prompting authorities to issue a tsunami warning, a meteorological agency official said

An earthquake is now rocking the Southern California area. (I'm near Dodger Stadium)As I post this, the USGS has not yet determined the epicenter so click on the link above for the exact location and magnitude from the USGS. Here are the maps for California and Los Angeles: California: Los Angeles: Here's the historical review of the last seven days:

HANWANG, China — The official came for Yu Tingyun in his village one evening last week. He asked Mr. Yu to get into his car. He was clutching the contract and a pen. Mr. Yu’s daughter had died in a cascade of concrete and bricks, one of at least 240 students at a high school here who lost their lives in the May 12 earthquake. Mr. Yu became a leader of grieving parents demanding to know if the school, like so many others, had crumbled because of poor construction. The contract had been thrust in Mr. Yu’s face during a...

Magnitude 6.4 - KURIL ISLANDS 2008 July 24 01:43:17 UTC Earthquake Details Magnitude 6.4 Date-Time * Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 01:43:17 UTC * Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 01:43:17 PM at epicenter * Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 50.967°N, 157.559°E Depth 35 km (21.7 miles) set by location program Region KURIL ISLANDS Distances 105 km (65 miles) ENE of Severo-Kuril'sk, Kuril Islands, Russia 240 km (150 miles) SSW of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia 2220 km (1380 miles) NE of TOKYO, Japan 6960 km (4320 miles) NE of MOSCOW, Russia Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 9.3 km (5.8 miles);...

Earthquake Strikes Japan's Main Island, Injuring 76 People By VOA News 23 July 2008 A strong earthquake has struck northern Japan, injuring at least 76 people, nine of them seriously, in an area hit by a deadly tremor last month. The magnitude 6.8 quake shook the northern part of Japan's main Honshu island after midnight on Thursday (12:26am Japan time/15:26 UTC Wednesday) as most people were sleeping. Its epicenter was off the coast of Iwate prefecture at a depth of more than 100 kilometers. Japanese officials say many of the injured were hurt in falls or suffered cuts from...

The enormous steel ball you see in the photos (and the incredible video below) is the world’s largest ‘tuned mass damper’ and sits near the top of the world’s largest completed skyscraper on earth, taipei 101 in taiwan. the idea behind a tuned mass damper is quite simple: as a building sways (resulting from high winds, earthquakes etc), its tuned mass damper, essentially a finely tuned and ridiculously heavy pendulum, will move in opposition to the structure’s oscillations and minimise any movement. if that makes no sense, watch the crude gif below. due to both the immense size of taipei...

SEOUL, May 31 (Xinhua) -- A magnitude-4.2 earthquake struck South Korea's southern resort island of Jeju on Saturday, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported. The earthquake erupted at 9:22 p.m. (1222 GMT) and left some residents and buildings in the island shaken, it said. There have been no reports of injuries or property damage in the earthquake so far, Yonhap quoted unnamed weather officials as saying. The quake is believed to have originated in the sea 78 km south of the island, South Korean weather officials said.

The regime in China has made an exception to its “one child policy”. ...Babies have become a treasured ‘commodity’ in China these days. The Government has banned most Chinese parents from having more than one child for almost thirty years. It is well documented that China has engaged in coerced abortions to enforce this ban on the birth of children.The Draconian policy has resulted in at least 400 million fewer births, and a staggering number of abortions. Now, there is word that the regime in China has made an exception to its “one child policy”. Families who lost their only...

Warning panics China quake zone People in Sichuan are jittery after dozens of aftershocksPeople slept on the streets or drove to open ground and hospitals evacuated patients in towns and cities after the warning was broadcast on TV. The 7.9 magnitude quake struck on 12 May. More than 71,000 people are dead, buried or missing. China has begun three days of mourning exactly one week after the quake hit. Multiple aftershocksOn Monday, a statement from the National Seismology Bureau was read out on television, triggering the panic. People in cities across the quake-hit area rushed out of their homes carrying...

Until now, China's media has been given unprecedented freedom to cover the country's earthquake disaster.But now the state propaganda machine has moved to curb coverage and ensure that what news does get out is patriotic and uplifting.Foreign journalists, who for the past week have been free to travel and report without restriction, have also been told they will now need special passes to visit the earthquake zone.China's state CCTV has begun telling the story the way the Government wants it to be told.  The Chinese Government has restricted media freedom again after damaging reports. (File photo) (Getty Images: Paula...

Study Warned of China Quake Risk Nearly a Year AgoKevin Holden Platt in Beijing for National Geographic NewsMay 16, 2008 Just ten months before a deadly earthquake struck Sichuan Province's Beichuan county on May 12, a scientific study warned that the Chinese region was ripe for a major quake. After examining satellite images and conducting on-the-ground inspections of deep, active faults in Sichuan Province for more than a decade, scientists issued a warning. "The faults are sufficiently long to sustain a strong ground-shaking earthquake, making them potentially serious sources of regional seismic hazard," the Chinese, European, and U.S. geoscientists wrote...

An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale has hit China's Sichuan province. The tremor was felt across the entire region - shaking buildings in the capital, Beijing, as well as the Thai capital, Bangkok, and Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. US Geological Survey said the quake struck 57 miles north-west of the city of Chengdu at 2.29pm local time (6.28am GMT). Some 10 million people live in Chengdu.

Small earthquake reported in Washington D.C.

Decatur, Illinois My wife and I just felt a very noticeable earthquake.

Magnitude 4.5 Date-Time * Monday, April 21, 2008 at 05:38:30 UTC * Monday, April 21, 2008 at 12:38:30 AM at epicenter Location 38.473°N, 87.823°W Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program Region ILLINOIS Distances * 8 km (5 miles) NW (323°) from Mount Carmel, IL * 12 km (7 miles) WSW (238°) from Allendale, IL * 12 km (8 miles) NE (37°) from Bellmont, IL * 35 km (22 miles) SW (230°) from Vincennes, IN * 60 km (37 miles) NNW (337°) from Evansville, IN * 211 km (131 miles) E (94°) from St. Louis, MO Location Uncertainty...

(04-14) 11:32 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A strong and potentially deadly earthquake is virtually certain to strike on one of California's major seismic faults with a magnitude of at least 6.7 within the next 30 years, scientists said Monday in releasing the first official forecast of statewide earthquake probabilities.

Unusaul Swarm of quakes off of the Oregon Coast in the last 72 hours.

7.2 Earthquake in Western China

Forecast: Big quake likely in Calif. April 14, 2008 By ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer 46 minutes ago LOS ANGELES - California faces an almost certain risk of being rocked by a strong earthquake by 2037, scientists said Monday in the first statewide temblor forecast. New calculations reveal there is a 99.7 percent chance a magnitude 6.7 quake or larger will strike in the next 30 years. The odds of such an event are higher in Southern California than Northern California, 97 percent versus 93 percent.The last time a jolt this size rattled California was the 1994 Northridge disaster,...

California - land of sun, beaches and earthquakes - faces an almost certain risk of being rocked by a strong temblor by 2037, scientists said Monday in the first statewide forecast of the seismic threat. New calculations reveal there is a 99.7 percent chance a magnitude 6.7 quake or larger will hit the Golden State in the next 30 years. The odds of such an event are higher in Southern California than Northern California, 97 percent versus 93 percent. The last time a jolt this size rattled California was the 1994 Northridge disaster, which killed 72 people, injured more than...

Earthquake

An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the open-ended Richter scale rocked Lebanon on Friday, injuring 10 people and sending panicked residents out into the streets in the south of the country. The quake, which was also felt across the border in Israel and in the Gaza Strip, caused damage in a number of villages in southern Lebanon while buildings shook in the capital Beirut. In the southern coastal city of Tyre, residents ran toward the seashore and began reciting verses of the Koran after the tremor struck, an AFP correspondent said. Lebanon's National Centre for Scientific Research said the quake had...

VANCOUVER, Wash. - Steam seeping from a fracture atop the lava dome in Mount St. Helens' crater and the mountain's first noteworthy seismic activity since 2004 have caught scientists' attention this week as signs that something is moving inside it. While the likelihood of a major eruption seemed low, scientists have quit venturing into the volcano's crater and are checking the monitoring equipment along St. Helens' flanks. "We're just being cautious. It's not that we're anticipating any activity," Cynthia A. Gardner, scientist in charge of the U.S. Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory, said Wednesday. Geologist John S. Pallister was flying...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A series of aftershocks rattled the New Zealand city of Gisborne on Friday as officials assessed damage caused by the country's strongest earthquake in 20 years, which injured several people. The 6.8 magnitude quake struck the city on the east coast of the country's North Island just before 9 p.m. on Thursday (0800 GMT), sending people to higher ground and disrupting power, phone and water services. Authorities declared a state of emergency as council workers began cleaning up the city centre and assessing the full extent of the damage. Three buildings partially collapsed during the quake, which...

A light earthquake occurred at 4:14:09 AM (PST) on Wednesday, December 19, 2007. The magnitude 4.0 event occurred 11 km (7 miles) SSW of town of Big Bear Lake, CA. The hypocentral depth is 7 km ( 4 miles).

The following is a release by the United States Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center: An earthquake occurred 345 km (215 miles) N of Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands; 600 km (370 miles) SSW of NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga; 1395 km (870 miles) NE of Auckland, New Zealand; 1830 km (1130 miles) NNE of WELLINGTON, New Zealand at 12:28 AM MST, Dec 9, 2007 (7:28 PM local time in .). The magnitude and location may be revised when additional data and further analysis results are available. This earthquake is located in a remote area and no damage or casualties are expected.

Magnitude 5.2 Date-Time Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 23:57:03 UTC Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 02:57:03 PM at epicenter Location 61.918°N, 151.067°W Depth 61 km (37.9 miles) set by location program Region SOUTHERN ALASKA Distances 11 km (7 miles) ENE (68°) from Skwentna, AK 48 km (30 miles) NNW (327°) from Susitna, AK 54 km (33 miles) SSW (198°) from Petersville, AK 106 km (66 miles) NW (320°) from Anchorage, AK Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 0.2 km (0.1 miles); depth fixed by location program Parameters Nst=094, Nph=093, Dmin=25.1 km, Rmss=0.85 sec, Gp= 36°, M-type=local magnitude (ML), Version=6 Source Alaska Earthquake...

Big shake felt in San Jose

JERUSALEM, Oct. 14 A 3.0-magnitude earthquake that rattled Israel Sunday may be a precursor to a much larger quake scientists have predicted for the region. While Sunday's earthquake in Israel's Jordan rift valley area was minor, as were two other recent temblors in the region, scientists are concerned a larger quake could occur due to a nearby rift, Ynetnews reported.

Source: University of Southern California Date: August 27, 2007 Los Angeles Enjoying 1,000 Year Seismic Lull Science Daily — The Los Angeles basin appears to be in a seismic "lull" characterized by relatively smaller and infrequent earthquakes, according to a study in the September issue of Geology. By contrast, the Mojave Desert is in a seismically active period. Seismic activity alternates between the two regions, the study suggests. The lull in the Los Angeles basin began 1,000 years ago, said the authors, led by James Dolan, associate professor of earth sciences at the University of Southern California. "The past 1,000...

The Bureau of Meteorology says it does not expect an earthquake that happened south of New Zealand will generate a tsunami that will pose any threat to Australia. Earlier this afternoon, the weather bureau issued a tsunami bulletin warning people in coastal areas in Tasmania and south-eastern mainland Australia to listen to news updates. But while New Zealand emergency services are on alert, there now appears to be little threat to populated areas. The quake's epicentre was near the uninhabited Auckland Islands, around 500 kilometres south-west of the New Zealand south island city of Invercargill. According to the European-based...