Earthquakes & Volcanoes

SUVA (AFP) - A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 hit off the Pacific island nation of Fiji late Monday but it was too deep to generate a destructive tsunami, US geologists said. Full Story »

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A powerful undersea earthquake killed one person, injured dozens and damaged hundreds of houses on a remote island in central Indonesia, officials said Monday. Full Story »

JAKARTA (AFP) - Two people were killed and dozens injured after a strong quake with a magnitude of 6.7 rocked the Indonesian island of Sumbawa on Monday, officials and the state news agency Antara said. Full Story »

NEW YORK - A strong earthquake was reported in the ocean off Indonesia on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Full Story »

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake has shaken Indonesia, the U.S. Geological Survey reported early on Monday morning, but there were no reports of damage or casualties initially. Full Story »

TAIPEI (AFP) - A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit central Taiwan on Thursday, the government said, with initial reports stating that one person had suffered minor injuries. Full Story »

JAKARTA, Nov 4 (IRIN) - Thousands of survivors of an earthquake that devastated Indonesia's West Sumatra Province are still grappling with a lack of clean water and adequate sanitation more than a month after the disaster, relief workers say. Full Story »

The small earthquakes that sporadically rattle the central United States may actually be aftershocks from a few extremely large quakes that occurred in the region almost 200 years ago, according to a new study Full Story »

TEHRAN, Iran - An earthquake struck a key port city in southern Iran early Wednesday, injuring at least 700 people and cutting power and telephone lines, the state news agency reported. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The western US state of Oregon was rattled early Wednesday by a pair of earthquakes, the US Geological Survey said. Full Story »

TEHRAN (Reuters) - An earthquake hit Iran's southern province of Hormozgan on Wednesday, injuring 269 people, the official news agency IRNA reported. Full Story »

TEHRAN (AFP) - A 4.9-scale earthquake struck the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas early Wednesday injuring at least 209 people, according to the official news agency Irna. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.9 quake struck off Greece on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. Full Story »

CALEXICO, Calif. - A magnitude-4.0 earthquake has shaken part of the southeastern California region bordering Baja California. Full Story »

ALGIERS (AFP) - An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the open-ended Richter scale hit the Ain Defla region, about 150 kilometres west of Algiers, Monday, seismologists said. Full Story »

BEIJING (AFP) - A moderate earthquake hit southwest China Monday, injuring 28 people, toppling more than 1,000 houses, and killing hundreds of livestock, local authorities reported. Full Story »

TOKYO - A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit off Japan's southern coast Friday, according to Japan's Meteorological Agency. Full Story »

PAGO PAGO, American Samoa - Close to $300,000 in financial donations have been received in American Samoa in the month following a tsunami that claimed 34 lives in the U.S. territory. Full Story »