Source link A UN Security Council session was interrupted on Friday after the world body’s headquarters in New York began to shake. The culprit was an earthquake under neighboring New Jersey, felt dozens of kilometers away. Residents of New York City and the surrounding areas took to social media in alarm as the ground beneath […]
Source link A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Taiwan on Wednesday morning, damaging buildings and triggering a tsunami warning. DETAILS TO FOLLOW You can share this story on social media: Follow RT on
Source link Almaty, the biggest city in Kazakhstan, was shaken by an earthquake on Monday, local media reports, prompting mass evacuations and emergency response measures. According to the Emergencies Ministry, the magnitude-5 quake hit the city at 11:22am local time (06:22 GMT), with the epicenter located 31km south of Almaty. In response, the city’s emergency […]
Source link Locals continue to reel from the devastation brought by the November quake, which claimed 154 lives and left 200,000 homeless On November 3, 2023, Karne Kami, a 70-year-old resident of Barekot in Western Nepal’s Jagarkot district, was asleep when a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck. While he and his family were able to flee their collapsing […]
Source link Authorities say the tremors have slightly damaged several nuclear power plants, albeit without hindering their operation Japan’s western coast was hit by an earthquake followed by a tsunami on Monday. Authorities say that while the natural disaster affected several nuclear power plants to some extent, there have been no signs of any “abnormalities” […]
Source link Hundreds of people have been injured and killed after a powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck northwestern China a minute before midnight on Monday, according to China Earthquake Networks Center. The epicenter of the quake was located in China’s mountainous Gansu Province, where at least 100 people were killed, while the neighboring Qinghai Province reported at […]
Source link The eruption has begun on the Reykjanes peninsula after seismic activity shook the area for weeks A volcano under southwestern Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula has begun erupting following weeks of earthquake activity that destroyed homes, broke apart roads and prompted evacuations of a nearby fishing village. The eruption started after 10pm local time on […]