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A strong magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurred at 13:32:01 (UTC) on Friday, June 8, 2007, offshore of Guatemala, 100 km SSW of Guatemala City, at a depth of 51.4 km Location 13.798°N, 90.838°W

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 00:40:40 (UTC) on Thursday, June 7, 2007, in the Bismarck Sea, 160 km SSW of Lorengau, Manus Island, PNG, at a depth of 22.6 km. Location 3.382°S, 146.783°E

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 21:34:59 (UTC) on Saturday, June 2, 2007, in the Yunnan region, China, about 120 km north of Yunjinghong, Yunnan, China, at a depth of 10 km. Location 23.031°N, 101.023°E

A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 13:08:02 (UTC) on Monday, May 22, 2006, in the Kamchatka region, Russia, 146 km North of from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, and at a depth of 189.4 km. Location 54.322°N, 158.432°E

A strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred at 14:10:15 (UTC) on Saturday, November 19, 2005, in Simeulue, Indonesia, 235 km West-NorthWest of Sibolga, Sumatra, at a depth of 30km. Location 2.232°N, 96.769°E

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 18:23:26 (UTC) on Thursday, September 29, 2005 in the New Britian Region, Papua New Guinea, 155 km SSW of Rabaul, at a Depth of 35 km. Location 5.596°S, 151.846°E

A strong earthquake rattled Indonesia’s Sumatra island today, causing residents to flee to higher ground fearing a possible tsunami. There were no reports of casualties or damage caused by the 6.9 magnitude quake. The Indonesian Meteorological and Geophysical Agency in Jakarta said the epic...

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 09:56:12 (UTC) on Saturday, August 6, 2005, in Tonga at a Depth of 195.8 km. Location 19.612°S, 175.905°W

A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 23:32:54 (UTC) on Wednesday, December 7, 2005, in the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand, 80 km SouthSouthEast of Raoul Island. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 37.2 km. Location 29.963°S, 177.631°W

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 08:56:18 (UTC) on Wednesday, May 16, 2007, in the Laos Region, 110 km NE of Chiang Rai, Thailand, at a depth of 38.1 km. Location 20.473°N, 100.701°E A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck northern Laos on Wednesday, shaking buildings as far away as Bang...

A strong earthquake occurred at 23:06:02 (UTC) on Monday, July 11, 2005. The magnitude 6.1 event was located south of the Fiji islands, 285 km NNE from Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands Location 26.964&...

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 12:06:52 (UTC) on Friday, May 4, 2007, in the Ascension Islands region, 710 km North of Ascension Island, at a depth of 10 km. Location 1....

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 12:53:05 (UTC) on Sunday, November 20, 2005, in the Unimak Island Region, Alaska, 93 km South-South-West (213°) from False Pass, Alaska, at a depth of 52.8 km. Location 54.122°N, 164.168°W

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 14:12:21 (UTC) on Tuesday, August 9, 2005 in the Vanuatu region, about 100 km North-West of Ceva-i-Ra, Fiji Location 21.187°S, 173.800°E[...

A 7.9 magnitude earthquake shook the northern part of Chile today.

A major magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred at 02:46:30 (UTC) on Tuesday, August 16, 2005, near the East coast of Honshu, Japan. Location 38.400°N, 141.800°E It occurred at a Depth of 55 km, 82 km East Northeast from Sendai, Honshu, Japan. [url=http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/...

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 18:24:19 (UTC) on Thursday, April 12, 2007, in the Balleny Islands region, 525 km North of Young Island, Balleny Islands, at a depth of 1.3 km. [img]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/195/458039574_680d0b18a3_o...

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 21:17:52 (UTC) on Sunday, February 4, 2007, in the Southern East Pacific Rise region, 4695 km SW of Santiago, Chile, at a depth of 10 km. Location 56.153°S, 122.990°W

A strong magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurred at 19:58:03 (UTC) on Wednesday, April 4, 2007, in the Mauritius - Reunion region, 455 km NE of Rodrigues Island, Mauritius, at a depth of 10 km. Location 17.084°S, 66.761°E

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 09:08:50 (UTC) on Thursday, August 11, 2005 located South-east of the Loyalty Islands. Location 22.293°S, 169.904°E

A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 21:47:46 (UTC) on Monday, December 12, 2005, in the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan, 95-km NW of Chitral, Pakistan, at a depth of 228.2 km Location 36.339°N, 71.105°E "The deeper an earthquake is the less likely it is to cause damag...

A moderate earthquake occurred at 10:06:59 (UTC) on Saturday, July 9, 2005. The magnitude 5.8 event has been located in the Molucca Sea, 230 km NNW of Ternate, Moluccas, Indonesia Locatio...

A strong magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred at 12:19:55 (UTC) on Monday, December 5, 2005 in the Lake Tanganyika Region, Congo-Tanzania, 55 km SouthEast of Kalemie, at a Depth of 10 km. Location 6.212°S, 29.599°E

The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004, was an event of stunning proportions, both in its human dimensions--nearly 300,000 lives lost--and as a geological phenomenon. The sudden rupture of a huge fault beneath the Indian Ocean unleashed a devastating tsunami. It was the la...

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 18:38:19 (UTC) on Saturday, August 27, 2005, South of Panama at a Depth of 10 km. Location 6.678°N, 82.278°W

A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 08:32:31 (UTC) on Wednesday, January 4, 2006, in the Gulf of California, 89 km NNE from Santa Rosalía, at a depth of 10 km. Location 28.102°N, 112.066°W

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 10:06:15 (UTC) on Saturday, October 15, 2005, East of the Kuril Islands, about 450 km SSW of Severo-Kuril'sk, Kuril Islands, Russia. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 30 km. Location 46.879 °N, 154.105 °E

A strong magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurred at 18:13:08 (UTC) on Monday, March 6, 2006 , at the Mid-Indian Ridge. Location 40.131°S, 78.473°E It occurred at a depth of 10 km , 270 km SSE of Amsterdam Island...

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 15:13:20 UTC on Saturday, July 30, 2005, located in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, 100 km WSW of Banda Aceh. It occurred at a depth of 41.7 km. Location 5.212°N, 94.493°E

A strong earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale struck under the sea off New Zealand's North Island on Wednesday. The quake occurred at 00:46 GMT at a depth of 320 km. Officials said it was too deep to trigger a tsunami.

A major magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurred at 01:55:34 (UTC) on Monday, September 26, 2005 located in Northern Peru, about 75 km NorthEast of Moyobamba. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 85 km. Location 5.657 ° S, 76.366 ° W

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 20:34:10 (UTC) on Friday, February 3, 2006, in the Andaman Islands, at a depth of 10 km . Location 11.904°N, 92.374°E

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 01:29:08 (UTC) on Wednesday, February 14, 2007, in the Easter Island Region, 370 km SW of Hanga Roa, Easter Island, at a depth of 10 km. Location 29.468°S, 112.184°W

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 05:31:21 (UTC) on Friday, November 25, 2005, in Mindanao, Philippines, 140 km East of General Santos. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 58 km. Location 5.872°N, 126.407°E

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 20:56:58 (UTC) on Sunday, February 4, 2007, in the Cuba Region, 120 km NNW of Montego Bay, Jamaica, at a depth of 10 km. Location 19.480°N, 78.303°W

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 16:41:33 (UTC) on Monday, November 28, 2005, in the Mariana Islands Region, 125 km East of Farallon de Pajaros. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 46.2 km. Location 20.358°N, 146.058°E

A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 08:30:49 (UTC) on Saturday, December 30, 2006, in the Gulf of Aden region, about 240 km WNW of Qalansiyah, Socotra Island, Yemen, at a depth of 10 km. Location 13.383°N, 51.378°E

A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 10:25:01 (UTC) on Sunday, November 13, 2005, in Seram, Indonesia, 95 km NorthEast of Ambon, Moluccas, at a depth of 35 km. Location 3.174°S, 128.874°E

A strong magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurred at 17:21:49 (UTC) on Monday, January 8, 2007 in the Kyrgyzstan region, 70 km ESE of Suluktu, at a depth of 14 km. Location 39.822°N, 70.301°E

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 20:15:40 (UTC) on Wednesday, December 27, 2006, in the Bougainville region, Papua New Guinea, about 130 km WNW of Arawa, at a depth of 369.9 km. Location 5.753°S, 154.470°E

A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 15:48:03 (UTC) on Tuesday, December 12, 2006, in the Celebes Sea region, about 249 km north of Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia, at a depth of 211.5 km. Location 3.717°N, 124.719°E

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 12:20:04 (UTC) on Thursday, December 22, 2005, near the Pacific Antarctic Ridge. Location 54.620°S, 136.070°W

A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 17:07:48 (UTC) on Sunday, October 15, 2006, in the Hawaii Islands region, about 14 km NNW of Kalaoa, Hawaii. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 24 km. Location 19.842°N, 156.059°W

There is something happening out in Lake Erie that even scientists and geologists cannot explain. It's been a record year for earthquakes around Lake, Geauga and Ashtabula counties. Since last November, 16 quakes have been recorded. To put it in perspective, that is eight times the number of quake...

A strong magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurred at 00:44:43 (UTC) on Friday, August 25, 2006, in the Salta region, WNW of Salta, Argentina, at a depth of 156.8 km. Location 24.323°S, 66.887°W

A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 17:08:20 (UTC) on Thursday, October 12, 2006, in the Turkmenistan region, about 45 km Northeast of Balkanabat (Nebitdag), Turkmenistan. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 41.2 km. Location 39.811°N, 54.730°E

A major magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurred at 16:58:48 (UTC) on Friday, January 27, 2006, in the Banda Sea. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 341.5 km. Location 5.448°S, 128.099°E

A major magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurred at 07:26:44 (UTC) on Friday, September 9, 2005 located in the New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 96 km. The quake occurred 40 km EastSouthEast of Taron, and 140 km south east of Rabaul. Location 4.574 °...

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 09:13:10 (UTC) on Monday, July 17, 2006, South of Java, Indonesia, 210km SSW of Tasikmalaya, Java, at a depth of 46.6 km. Location 9.133°S, 107.653°E A major magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurred at 08:19:30 (UTC) on Monday, July 17...

A moderate magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurred at 23:36:27 (UTC) on Friday, March 3, 2006, near the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Location 55.712°S, 4.135°W It occurred at a depth of 10 km, 500 km WSW of Bouvet Island.

On Dec. 16, 1811, residents of New Madrid, US, were wrested from sleep by violent shaking and a deafening roar. A short time later, church bells hundreds of miles away in Boston began to ring. It was the first of three massive earthquakes that rocked the central United States between December 1811 and...

The World's strongest recorded Earthquake At 3.40pm on 22 May 1960 Valdivia was hit by the strongest recorded earthquake in the world. The Earthquake measured 9.5 on the Richter Scale. Most of the buildings in the city were destroyed by the earth's movements or by the devastating tsunamis that...

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 23:50:06 (UTC) on Monday, April 17, 2006 , in the Santa Cruz Islands region. Location 12.634°S, 165.971°E It occurred at a Depth of 70.6 km , 210 km South of Lata, Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands.

A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 04:54:50 (UTC) on Tuesday, January 30, 2007, west of Macquarie Island, about 855 km west of Macquarie Island, Australia, at a depth of 10 km. Location 54.888°S, 145.733°E

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 13:08:27 (UTC) on Friday, September 29, 2006 in the Sucre region, Venezuela, 40 km Northwest of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, at a depth of 62.6 km. Location 10.847°N, 61.823°W

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 11:58:28 (UTC) on Sunday, January 15, 2006, in the Flores Sea. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 251.5 km. Location 7.864°S, 122.604°E

A major magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred at 03:41:47 (UTC) on Sunday, August 20, 2006, in the Scotia Sea Region, 495 km WSW of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands, at a depth of 10 km Location 61.023°S, 34.373°W

Geophysicists in the US have found that the "aftershocks" produced by earthquakes are triggered by "dynamic" seismic waves from the main shock rather than changes in stress in nearby faults brought about by the rearrangement of the Earth's crust, as previously believed. Karen Felzer of the US G...

Commemorations have been held in Tangshan in China to mark 30 years since a massive earthquake devastated the city. Over 1,000 people attended a ceremony to remember those who died when the magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck in the early morning of 28 July 1976. About 240,000 people died, accor...

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 08:22:10 (UTC) on Sunday, July 23, 2006, in the Sulawesi region, Indonesia, 105 km South of Gorontalo, Sulawesi, at a Depth of 86.2 km. Location 0.415°S, 123.177°E

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 10:57:36 (UTC) on Wednesday, July 19, 2006, in the Sunda Strait, Indonesia, 115 km South of T.-Telukbetung, Sumatra, at a Depth of 44.2 km. Location 6.495°S, 105.415°E

According to the Beijing Seismological Bureau, the Chinese capital is to construct 130 earthquake monitoring stations by the end of this year. Currently the city has 70 monitoring stations. The extra monitoring stations will provide more accurate coverage for the region. This month mark...

A major magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred at 15:42:05 (UTC) on Sunday, July 24, 2005 located in the Nicobar Islands, India region, about 135 km West of Misha[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/blobrana/news/928...

The coastal village of Applecross was rocked yesterday afternoon by an earthquake which was felt across a wide area of remote Wester Ross in the north-west Scottish Highlands. The lunchtime tremor measured 3.1 on the Richter Scale. It was felt in communities at least 25 miles away and was the...

A major magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurred at 23:25:05 (UTC) on Thursday, April 20, 2006, in Koryakia, Russia. Location 61.092°N, 167.100°E It occurred at a Depth of 43 km, 205 km NorthEast of Il'pyrskiy, Russia. Strong aftershocks have occurred.

A strong magnitude 6.1earthquake occurred at 21:47:27 (UTC) on Friday, December 23, 2005, in Ecuador, 130 km East of Ambato, and at a depth of 192.2 km. Location 1.427°S, 77.480°W

Another magnitude 7.9 earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area would probably produce much stronger shaking than the catastrophic 1906 event of the same size. The wider region should also expect thousands of fatalities and economic losses in the billions. These conclusions are contained...

A strong magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurred at 03:16:09 (UTC) on Tuesday, December 13, 2005, in the Fuji Region, 115-km SSW of Sigave, at a depth of 29.3 km. Location 15.271°S, 178.569°W

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 10:22:23 (UTC) on Sunday, November 27, 2005, in Southern Iran, 60 km SouthWest of Bandar-e Abbas, and at a Depth of 35 km. Location 26.839°N, 55.834°E

An earthquake measuring 4.5 magnitude rattled Ottawa and western Quebec on Friday night, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, but there were no reports of injuries or damage. The earthquake struck about 8:39 p.m.

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake shook the border region in India's northeast according to the country's meteorology department. There were no immediate reports of any damage or casualties from the quake, the epicentre was traced to the border between India's Arunachal Pradesh state and Bhutan. ...

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 20:50:47 (UTC) on Monday, January 23, 2006, near the west coast of Colombia. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 26.2 km. Location 6.842°N, 77.792°W

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 04:04:05 (UTC) on Thursday, February 23, 2006, in the Bouvet Island Region, at a depth of 10 km. Location 54.687°S, 1.867°E

A strong magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurred at 22:19:08 (UTC) on Wednesday, February 22, 2006, in Mozambique, at a depth of 10 km Location 21.221°S, 33.324°E

A magnitude 5 + earthquake shook Georgia early on Monday morning, according to the Georgian National Seismology Centre. The epicentre of the quake occurred on the administrative border between the Ambrolauri and Oni districts in northwest of the country. According to Otari Siradze, the gov...

A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 11:34:52 (UTC) on Sunday, January 8, 2006, in Southern Greece, about 95 km NNW of Chania, Crete. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 37.7 km. Location 36.250°N, 23.498°E

A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 05:51:14 (UTC) on Tuesday, December 20, 2005, in the State of Yap, Federal States of Micronesia, about 430 km North east of Yap. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 35 km Location 12.194°N, 140.988°E

A strong magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurred at 19:26:49 (UTC) on Thursday, November 17, 2005, in Potosi, Bolivia, at a hypocentral depth estimated to be 105 km, 110 km East of Calama, Chile. Location 22.363°S, 67...

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 19:29:54 (UTC) on Thursday, November 10, 2005 in South Eastern Siberia, Russia, 315 km West-Northwest of Nagornyy. Location 57.445°N, 120.498°E

A strong magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurred at 10:48:21 (UTC) on Saturday, November 5, 2005, in the Bismarck Sea, 160 km SE of Lorengau, Manus Island. Location 3.163°S, 148.133°E

A major magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred at 03:50:38 (UTC) on Saturday, October 8, 2005, in Pakistan, 95 km NNE of Islamabad, at a Depth of 10 km. Location 34.432 °N, 73.537 °E

An important seismic event imperceptible to humans has begun in the Pacific Northwest as predicted, according to the government agency Geological Survey of Canada. The event is called episodic tremor and slip (ETS). It involves a slow movement of the Juan de Fuca and North America tectonic pl...

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 01:16:04 (UTC) on Tuesday, September 6, 2005, 50 km NorthEast of Hua-lien in the Taiwan region. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 46 km. Location 24.087°N, 122.047°E

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 11:26:03 (UTC) on Friday, September 9, 2005 located 45 km West Southwest of San Juan, Argentina. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 86 km. Location 31.638°S, 68.999°W

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 14:11:36 (UTC) on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 in Southern Peru. Location 15.353°S, 72.966°W Depth 109.6 km

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 02:17:45 (UTC) on Sunday, August 7, 2005 in the Prince Edward Islands region at a depth of 10km. Location 46.941°S, 33.474°E

A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 11:03:15 (UTC) on Wednesday, August 3, 2005, located in Nicaragua. The quake occurred about 40 km ESE of Rivas[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/blobrana/news/NIC8611globe.gif[/im...

A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 18:16:33 (UTC) on Friday, August 26, 2005, in the Gulf of Aden, at a Depth of 10 km. Location 14.483°N, 52.280°E

Shinji Toda, a Japanese geologist, has discovered a new tectonic plate under the Tokyo area, a finding that may force the government to review its quake preparation plans. Japan endures 20 per cent of the world's powerful earthquakes as the country lies at the crossing of four tectonic plates -- t...

An intresting new website: "Radio Astronomy is an art and science project which broadcasts sounds intercepted from space live on the internet and on the airwaves. The project is a collaboration between r a d i o q u a l i a, and radio telescopes located throughout the world. To...

A moderate earthquake occurred at 21:28:23 (UTC) on Friday, July 8, 2005. The magnitude 5.0 event has been located in the Nias Region, Indonesia ; 185 km WSW of Sibolga, Sumatra. -- Edited by Blobrana at 01:35, 2005-07-09

More than 600 tremors reported within 24 hours sets off the alarm in El Salvador and although there have not been any injuries; many families spent the night outdoors. The chain of tremors began early on Wednesday 4th May, at the Los Naranjos mountain range and remains one of the strongest to affect...

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 14:30:39 (UTC) on Friday, August 11, 2006, in the Guerrero region, 75 km WNW of Arcelia, at a depth of 60.1 km. Location 18.486°N, 100.930°W

Tsunami WARNING for Pacific coast of U.S Mag 7 Quake offshore. -- Edited by Blobrana at 12:53, 2005-06-15

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 13:27:03 (UTC) on Saturday, July 21, 2007, in the Amazonas region, Brazil, 165 km ESE of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil, at a depth of 632.9 km. Location 7.976°S, 71.130°W

Tales about "Thunderbird" and "Whale" by native tribes along the U.S. West Coast, along with geological clues, point to at least two massive quakes and tsunamis that have hit the area in the last 1,100 years. "Native people here were well aware that earthquakes happened and that is reflecte...

US Geological Survey (USGS) Earthquake monitoring kmz file The file will display earthquake information over the last 7 days. Download (kmz)

A strong magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurred at 12:05:21 (UTC) on Sunday, August 12, 2007, in the Santa Cruz Islands region, 453 km North from Santo (Luganville), Vanuatu, at a depth of 48 km. Location 11.530°S, 166.340°E

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 10:40:14 (UTC) on Saturday, October 11, 2008, in the Virgin Islands region, about 70 km NW from Settlement, Anegada, British Virgin Islands, at a depth of 29.3 km. Location 19.147°N, 64.813°W

A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 08:26:45 (UTC) on Wednesday, January 09, 2008, in the Central Tibetan region, 445 km NE of Jumla, Nepal, at a Depth of 10 km Location 32.341°N, 85.146°E

A strong magnitude 5.8 earthquake occurred at 18:42:15 (UTC) on Tuesday, July 29, 2008, in the greater Los Angeles area, 3 km SW from Chino Hills, California, at a depth of 12.3 km. Location 33.959°N, 117.752°W

A geological study warned that in the coming few years Cairo might be subject to three destructive earthquakes that could measure a staggering 7 degrees on the Richter scale. The study conducted by Egyptian geologist Taha Mohamed Abul Azayem, predicts that the point of initial rupture of the stron...

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 15:46:01 (UTC) on Thursday, May 29, 2008, in the Iceland region, 50 km ESE of Reykjavik, Iceland, at a depth of 10 km. Location 64.026°N, 20.986°W

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck Britain just before 1am today.

A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 02:46:18 (UTC) on Thursday, February 21, 2008, in Svalbard region, about 735 km North of Hammerfest, Norway, at a depth estimated to be 10 km. Location 77.051°N, 18.349°E

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 14:16:05 (UTC) on Thursday, February 21, 2008, in the Nevada region, about 17 km ESE from Wells, Nevada, at a depth estimated to be 10 km. Location 41.076°N, 114.771°W

A strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred at 11:01:05 (UTC) on Saturday, January 05, 2008, in the Queen Charlotte islands region, 158 km WNW from Port Hardy, BC, Canada, at a depth of 10 km. Location 51.299°N, 130.713°W A strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred at 11:44:48 (UTC) on Saturday, Ja...

A strong magnitude 7.4 earthquake occurred at 19:00:19 (UTC) on Thursday, November 29, 2007, in the Martinique region, Windward islands, 23 km NNW from Le Morne-Rouge, Saint-Pierre, Martinique, at a depth of 143.1 km. Location 14.951°N, 61.241°W

August 12th, 2007 8:47 GMT: An earthquake which registered a 4.7 magnitude in Ciudad Real, has been felt all over Spain with more intensity in the centre of the country. Residents in the surroundings of Madrid reported at least 5 seconds of shaking. Read more

A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 00:41:16 (UTC) on Friday, August 3, 2007, south of Australia, 495 km NE of Dumont d'Urville, Antarctica, at a depth of 12 km. Location 62.874°S, 145.460°E

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 10:35:21 (UTC) on Monday, February 12, 2007, in the Azores-Cape St Vincent Ridge Region, 250 km WSW of Faro, Portugal, at a depth of 10 km. Location 35.843°N, 10.289°W

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 01:16:10 (UTC) on Saturday, May 09, 2009, off the coast of Ecuador, 500 km SSE of Isla del Coco, Costa Rica, at a depth of 23.9 km. Location 1.405°N, 85.228°W

A strong magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred at 08:24:45 (UTC) on Thursday, May 28, offshore of the Honduras region, 130 km NNE of La Ceiba, at a depth of 10 km. Location 16.783°N, 86.166°W

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 08:53:05 (UTC) on Monday, September 21, 2009, in the Bhutan region, 135 km NNW of Gauhati, Assam, India, at a depth of 10 km. Location 27.352°N, 91.424°E

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 20:52:15 (UTC) on Wednesday, October 07, 2009, East of the Severnaya Zemlya region, about 1581 km NNE from Noril'sk, at a depth of 20 km. Location 81.627°N, 120.036°E

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 17:48:23 (UTC) on Thursday, October 15, 2009, in the Galapagos Triple Junction region, 1601 km SSW from Acapulco, at a depth of 20 km. Location 3.032°N, 104.031°W

A strong magnitude 5.4 earthquake occurred at 21:57:45 (UTC) on Wednesday, December 17, 2008, in the southern Italy region, 65 km West of Cosenza, at a depth of 260.7 km. Location 39.291°N, 15.485°E

For many years geologists have harboured a belief that the Kamchatka Peninsula, shrouded in mystery and secrecy on Russia's east coast, actually sits on the same tectonic plate as the mainland United States, Canada and Mexico. The North America plate extends through Alaska across the Bering...

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 23:19:17 (UTC) on Saturday, December 19, 2009, in the Malawi region, 140 km SSE of Mbeya, Tanzania, at a Depth of 15.5 km Location 10.110°S, 33.815°E

A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 04:55:39 (UTC) on Tuesday, January 05, 2010, in the South Sandwich Islands region, 685 km East of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands, at a depth of 10 km. Location 58.101°S, 14.867°W

A strong magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred at 21:53:09 (UTC) on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, in the Haiti region, 9 km SSW from Carrefour, at a Depth of 10 km Location 18.451°N, 72.445°W

A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 12:00:02 (UTC) on Sunday, January 17, 2010, in the Drake Passage region, 355 km SSE of Ushuaia, Argentina, at a depth of 10 km. Location 57.671°S, 65.910°W

Most of Kathmandu's 50 hospitals are poorly built and would collapse if there were a major earthquake, experts warn. They also note that health institutions lack emergency response plans and are generally ill-prepared. Kathmandu valley lies in a high risk earthquake zone; poorly constructed bu...

A series of small earthquakes that rattled central Arkansas in recent weeks could be a sign of something much bigger to come. By this weekend, seismologists hope to install three measurement devices to gather data about future temblors in the area. That information could show whether the rumbles c...

An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale rocked the Kashmir valley early on Sunday, jolting residents out of their sleep in panic. "A 6.4 quake struck the Valley at 1.53am on Sunday. The epicentre of the quake was located in the Hindukush region with latitude 36.5 degrees north and long...

A strong magnitude 6.o earthquake occurred at 21:45:38 (UTC) on Wednesday, December 10, 2008, in central Mongolia region, 207 km from Bayandalay, Mongolia, at a depth of 5 km. Location 45.000°N, 105.000°E

A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 01:13:17 (UTC) on Thursday, February 18, 2010, in the Russian North Korean border region, 110 km NE of Chongjin, at a Depth of 562.5 km Location 42.561°N, 130.836°E

A strong magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurred at 02:32:35 (UTC) on Monday, March 08, 2010, in the eastern Turkey region, 45 km West of Bingol, at a Depth of 10 km Location 38.852°N, 39.949°E

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 20:33:10 (UTC) on Sunday, March 14, 2010, in the South Indian Ocean region, 1157 km SSE from Colombo, Sri Lanka, at a depth of 10 km. Location 2.763°S, 83.678°E -- Edited by Blobrana on Sunday 14th of March 2010 09:07:56 PM

A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 23:11:43 (UTC) on Friday, April 30, 2010, in the Bering Sea region, 486 km SW from Gambell, at a Depth of 10 km Location 60.370°N, 177.560°W

A strong magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurred at 15:29:02 (UTC) on Sunday, May 16, 2010, in the Greenland Sea region, 585 km NW of Tromso, Norway, at a Depth of 10 km Location 73.387°N, 7.249°E

A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 19:21:38 (UTC) on Thursday, January 08, 2009, in the Costa Rica region, 35 km NW from San Jose, Costa Rica, at a depth of 28 km. Location 10.220°N, 84.280°W

Western regions of Saudi Arabia may be at risk from an unusual type of earthquake caused by failed volcanic eruptions, according to a team of Saudi and US scientists. They analysed some of the thousands of mini-earthquakes that hit the region in spring 2009, after a volcano eruption failed but still...

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 06:55:26 (UTC) on Saturday, January 29, 2011, in the Jan Mayen Island region, 560 km ENE of Ittoqqortoormiit (Scoresbysund), at a depth of 9.5 km. Location 70.965°N, 6.778°W

Title: Tsunami source of the unusual AD 869 earthquake off Miyagi, Japan, inferred from tsunami deposits and numerical simulation of inundation Authors: Satake, K.; Sawai, Y.; Shishikura, M.; Okamura, Y.; Namegaya, Y.; Yamaki, S. The 869 Jogan earthquake, off Miyagi, produced unusually large...

The 1923 Great Kanto earthquake struck the Kanto plain on the Japanese main island of Honsh at 11:58:44 am JST on September 1, 1923. Varied accounts hold that the duration of the earthquake was between 4 and 10 minutes. The quake had a magnitude of 7.9 on the Richter scale, with its focus deep beneath Iz...

The 1950 Medog earthquake (also known as the Assam Earthquake), occurred on August 15, 1950, and had a magnitude of 8.6. The epicentre was actually located near Rima, in Tibet. However, the earthquake was destructive in both Assam and Tibet, and 1,526 people were killed. [url=http://en.wikipedi...

A moderate magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurred at 21:03:23 (UTC) on Sunday, June 12, 2011, in the Eritrea region, about 134 km WNW from Assab, at a depth of 9.9 km. Location 13.530°N, 41.625°E

A strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred at 13:40:17 (UTC) on Sunday, January 15, 2012, in the South Shetland Islands region, 539 km West of Coronation Island, at a depth of 10 km. Location 60.755°S, 55.473°W

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 06:35:05 (UTC) on Thursday, August 20, 2009, in the Norwegian Sea, 715 km WNW of Tromso, at a depth of 10 km. Location 72.222°N, 0.894°E

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 03:31:20 (UTC) on Wednesday, February 15, 2012, near the coast of Oregon, 256 km west from Coos Bay, at a depth of 10 km. Location 43.536°N, 127.381°W

Over 400 Aftershocks Rattle Western Bulgaria in 4 Days Over 400 aftershocks have been registered in Bulgaria since the strong May 22 earthquake, according to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The total number includes numerous mini-aftershocks that have occurred in the region of Pernik in Wes...

A major magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurred at 04:37:20 (UTC) on Monday, August 27, 2012, in the El Salvador region, 111km South of Puerto El Triunfo, at a depth of 20.3 km. Location 12.278°N, 88.528°W

A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 23:45:26 (UTC) on Tueday, September 25, 2012, in the Gulf of California region, 76 km NNE of La Paz, Mexico, at a depth of 10.1 km. Location 24.8351°N, 110.152°W

A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 16:11:00 (UTC) on Saturday, June 15, 2013, south of the Crete Islands region, 61km South of Pirgos, Greece, at a depth of 10.0 km. Location 34.449°N 25.044°E