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A magnitude 6.3 aftershock struck southern Turkey on Monday injuring eight people, according to an official, two weeks after a massive earthquake killed tens of thousands of people in Turkey and Syria. Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay told a press conference Monday that eight people were injured following the aftershock, adding that a tsunami warning has been removed. “We have eight injured people brought to our hospitals,” he said as he asked the public “not to enter the damaged buildings, especially to take their belongings.” The quake struck Turkey’s southern Hatay province, near the Syrian border, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency...

Ridgecrest, California — A 6.4 magnitude earthquake is still fresh on everyone's mind in Ridgecrest and the aftershocks won't let them forget it. After the quake, rattled nerves kept Donnie Morrison's family up through the night. "We had our shoes by the bed. We had our clothes ready to go if we had to bail out real quick," Morrison said. More than 1,000 aftershocks have rocked the community. CBS News witnessed the biggest aftershock while preparing for an early morning live shot. Another struck during an interview with seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones.

- BREAKING NEWS - KATHMANDU REGION HIT WITH MAGNITUDE 6.7 AFTERSHOCK [No further details, yet.]

Tokyo Electric to Build Seawalls to Protect Fukushima N-Plant Fukushima, April 30 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo Electric Power Co. <9501> will build temporary seawalls by mid-June to protect its stricken nuclear power plant from tsunami that could occur if a strong earthquake happens again, officials said Saturday. Based mainly on forecasts by the Meteorological Agency, Tokyo Electric will prepare itself for an aftershock with the maximum magnitude of around 8 on the Richter scale and subsequent tsunami less than 10 meters high, the officials said. The barriers will be installed on grounds to the southwest of the No. 1 to No. 4...

Aftershock sequence may last 10 years: report Wednesday 13th April, 04:33 AM JST WASHINGTON — An American scientist believes it may take 10 years before aftershocks from the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that devastated northeastern Japan last month subside, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. As a series of quakes believed to be the aftershocks of the March 11 temblor continue to rattle a large swath of eastern Japan, the report quoted Ross Stein, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey, as saying, ‘‘It will take probably a decade before this aftershock sequence is over.’‘ A new calculation by Stein and two...

Powerful Aftershock Complicates Japan’s Nuclear Efforts By HIROKO TABUCHIand ANDREW POLLACK Published: April 7, 2011 TOKYO — The strongest aftershock to hit since the day of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan rocked a wide section of the country’s northeast on Thursday night, prompting a tsunami alert, raising fears of new strains on the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and knocking out external power at three other nuclear facilities. The public broadcaster, NHK, said two people had died in Miyagi and Yamagata, including a 63-year-old woman whose ventilator stopped working in the blackout. Many more were injured. About...

Just reported large aftershock, 7.2 about, around sendai area again. Earthquake in its own right.

Magnitude 6.3 aftershock hits southern Chile; Tsunami alert sounds in town of Constitucion

A magnitude 6.1 aftershock struck near Port-au-Prince on Wednesday morning. With so many buildings damaged by the major Haiti earthquake last week, there are concerns about danger. But there's a world of difference between today's quake and the 7.0 earthquake that did so much damage last week. The aftershock that hit Haiti shortly after 6 a.m. on Wednesday frightened Haitians traumatized by last week's much stronger earthquake and raised concerns that it could bring down buildings weakened by the original earthquake and cause more loss of life. While a 6.1 magnitude earthquake sounds almost as strong as a 7.0 earthquake,...

Here is audio of AP Reporter Tony Winton reacting on-air as a powerful 6.1 Aftershock hit Haiti this morning. Winton was giving a report before it happened, and then said as it began that it was a minor rumble before it increased to a major aftershock. Below is CNN's Jason Carroll reporting on the huge Aftershock . . . . (Audio / Video)

Port-au-Prince has been hit by a strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the moment magnitude scale, eight days after the Haitian capital was razed by a 7.0 tremor. The quake struck 59 kilometres west of the city, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). It followed the much more powerful quake on January 12 that is thought to have killed up to 200,000 people. Witnesses say the latest tremor sent people who were camping out in the capital's streets running away from crumbled buildings in panic. Residents reported a low vibration followed by a brief but more powerful rumbling shake at...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—A powerful aftershock struck Haiti on Wednesday, shaking buildings and sending screaming people running into the streets only eight days after the country's capital was devastated by a major earthquake. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-6.1 tremblor hit at 6:03 a.m. (11:03 a.m. GMT) about 35 miles northwest of the capital of Port-au-Prince. It struck at a depth of 13.7 miles but was located too far inland to generate any tidal waves in the Caribbean. Wails of terror rose Wednesday from frightened survivors of the apocalyptic quake that struck eight days ago as people as people poured out...

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Magnitude 4.1 Date-Time Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 22:49:11 UTC Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 03:49:11 PM at epicenter Location 33.933°N, 118.331°W Depth 12.1 km (7.5 miles) Region GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA Distances 2 km (2 miles) NE (44°) from Hawthorne, CA 3 km (2 miles) ESE (107°) from Lennox, CA 3 km (2 miles) SSE (152°) from Inglewood, CA 7 km (4 miles) E (80°) from El Segundo, CA 16 km (10 miles) SSW (210°) from Los Angeles Civic Center, CA Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 0.4 km (0.2 miles); depth +/- 1.1 km (0.7 miles) Parameters Nph=120, Dmin=7...

Magnitude 6.5 - KEPULAUAN OBI, INDONESIA 2007 February 20 08:04:27 UTC Earthquake Details Magnitude 6.5 (Strong) Date-Time Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 08:04:27 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 5:04:27 PM = local time at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 1.059°S, 127.066°E Depth 31.3 km (19.4 miles) Region KEPULAUAN OBI, INDONESIA Distances 210 km (130 miles) S of Ternate, Moluccas, Indonesia 315 km (195 miles) NNW of Ambon, Moluccas, Indonesia 1320 km (820 miles) NNW of DARWIN, Northern Territory, Australia 2325 km (1440 miles) ENE of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia Location Uncertainty...

6.2 Aftershock Jolts SumatraU.S. Military Relief Effort Panned Relief workers and tsunami survivors got an unwelcome reminder Thursday as a 6.2-magnitude aftershock shook tsunami-stricken Indonesia, CBS News reports.(CBS/AP) The U.N. official coordinating relief efforts on Sumatra island complained Thursday that the U.S. military's aid mission was failing to coordinate and provide critical information to other relief organizations struggling to help survivors of the tsunami. Michael Elmquist said that while American helicopters were speeding relief supplies to villages isolated by the Dec. 26 disaster, their crews were not spending enough time on the ground to assess survivors' needs. "They don't stop...

<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A 6.5-magnitude aftershock to last weekend's killer earthquake hit off the coast of Sumatra on Saturday, sending frightened residents running into the streets. No injuries were reported.</p> <p>The U.S. Geological Survey said the 6.5 aftershock hit early Saturday morning and was centered 215 miles west of Banda Aceh, the hard-hit provincial capital in northern Sumatra.</p>