A powerful earthquake struck central Italy as residents slept on Monday morning, killing more than 90 people and making up to 50 000 homeless.
An earthquake tore through central Italy on Monday killing at least 50 people as Renaissance buildings in a historic town were reduced to rubble.
A strong earthquake rocked a large swathe of central Italy on Monday, killing at least 10 people and causing houses and churches to collapse.
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/ 10 January 2009
Rescue helicopters ferried stranded tourists on Friday from a picturesque volcanic area in Costa Rica where a strong earthquake killed around 14 people.
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/ 6 November 2008
China will spend one trillion yuan (about -billion) over the next three years to rebuild areas ravaged by the Sichuan earthquake.
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/ 1 November 2008
A strong aftershock rattled south-western Pakistan on Saturday, as aid agencies warned that disease had begun to spread among earthquake survivors.
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/ 31 October 2008
Pakistani soldiers scrambled on Friday to get aid to tens of thousands of earthquake survivors in remote south-western mountains.
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/ 30 October 2008
Thousands of villagers in south-west Pakistan waited for aid on Thursday after an earthquake that destroyed homes and killed at least 215 people.
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/ 29 October 2008
A powerful earthquake struck south-west Pakistan before dawn early on Wednesday, killing at least 160 people.
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/ 29 October 2008
At least 80 people were killed when a powerful earthquake struck south-west Pakistan on Wednesday, bringing down hundreds of mud-walled houses.
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/ 11 October 2008
A strong earthquake hit Chechnya and other parts of Russia’s North Caucasus on Saturday, killing at least 12 people and damaging scores of buildings.
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/ 11 October 2008
A strong earthquake hit the Caucasus mountains on Saturday, killing at least five people and disrupting power supplies in Russia’s Chechnya region.
A weekend earthquake killed up to 70 people in Kyrgyzstan and levelled a village in the south of the Central Asian nation.
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/ 11 September 2008
At least seven people were killed in Wednesday’s powerful earthquake in Iran, and on Thursday Japan and Indonesia were also shaken by strong quakes.
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/ 6 September 2008
As Pakistan’s presidential election kicked off on Saturday, an earthquake shook the capital and a bombing in Peshawar killed at least 12 people.
China faces a repair bill of almost -billion from the Sichuan earthquake, equivalent to one-fifth of its entire tax revenues for a single year.
A strong earthquake rocked the western Chinese provinces of Sichuan and Gansu on Tuesday, near the site of May’s devastating quake.
A 5,8-magnitude earthquake hit south-west China on Friday, close to the area devastated by a massive tremor in May that left nearly 70 000 dead.
An earthquake struck just east of Los Angeles on Tuesday, rocking tall buildings and rattling nerves across Southern California.
Rescue teams searched in dense fog and rain on Thursday for victims of a powerful earthquake in northern Japan that left more than 120 people injured.
A strong earthquake measuring 6,8 on the Richter scale shook northern Japan early on Thursday, just a month after a deadly tremor in the same area.
A strong earthquake measuring 6,6 on the Richter scale shook northern Japan on Saturday, triggering a minor tsunami, the meteorological agency said.
China’s devastating earthquake has left nearly two million people without a means to make a living, state press said on Tuesday.
A strong earthquake shook India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Friday, but no tsunami alert was issued.
The death toll from last month’s massive earthquake in south-west China is likely to exceed 80 000, state media reported on Tuesday.
Disasters like the earthquake in China have highlighted the need for countries to develop better emergency communications plans, experts say.
Floods triggered by torrential rains have killed dozens of people across China, as officials struggle to move thousands of victims last month’s quake.
Hundreds of troops sifted through the splintered remains of a resort hotel in Japan on Sunday in search of survivors after a powerful earthquake.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7,2 struck rural northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least three people.
Chinese police blocked access to several collapsed schools on Thursday as distraught parents attempted to hold mourning ceremonies.
Grieving and angry parents on Thursday marked one month since China’s devastating earthquake toppled schools, apologising to their loved ones buried under the rubble.
China has ordered nationwide safety checks for schools a month after the Sichuan earthquake saw many collapse in heaps of rubble.