An earthquake centered several miles northwest of Malibu, Calif., rattled residents across the Los Angeles area on Friday, sparking a typical flurry of posts on social media, though the authorities said no major damage or injuries had been reported. The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 4.6, according to the United States Geological Survey. Residents […]
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A Year After a Devastating Quake: Container Cities, Trials and Grief
At 4:17 a.m. on Tuesday, thousands of people in cities across southern Turkey gathered to cry, light candles and chant against the government, marking the moment a year ago that a powerful earthquake devastated the region. The 7.8-magnitude quake, and a second violent tremor hours later, damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of buildings, killing […]
Read MoreQ&A: What sets the recent Japan earthquake apart from others?
On Jan. 1, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the western side of Japan on the Noto Peninsula, killing over 200 people. Japan is prone to earthquakes, including a magnitude 9.1 earthquake in 2011 that triggered a tsunami and killed almost 20,000 people. William Frank, the Victor P. Starr Career Development Professor in the Department of […]
Read MoreTrump Wins Iowa, and Iceland’s Volcanic Eruption
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Read MoreIceland Faces ‘New Chapter’ of Seismic Activity as Lava Menaces Town
Living in a country that straddles two tectonic plates and has 130 or so volcanoes, Icelanders are no strangers to earthquakes and eruptions. But a lava stream that flowed into the southwestern town of Grindavik on Sunday, burning three homes — the first time in about 50 years that a residential area had been affected […]
Read MoreJapan Earthquake Survivor in Her 90s Rescued After Five Days
Police and other rescue workers pulled a woman in her 90s out from under a collapsed house on Saturday in western Japan, five days after a powerful earthquake struck the region, killing more than 126 people. Few details were available, but video footage showed a fleet of rescuers surrounding the site in Suzu, one of […]
Read MoreA Minor Earthquake Hit New York City. How Often Does That Happen?
When Renata De Oliveira and her husband were jolted awake by a loud thud that rattled the windows of their Roosevelt Island apartment early Tuesday morning, she thought her upstairs neighbor might have taken a bad fall, or that maybe there was a problem with her building’s heating system. But the culprit, it turned out, […]
Read MoreJapan Earthquake Death Toll Rises to at Least 48
At least 48 people were killed in the powerful earthquake that struck western Japan on Monday, the authorities said a day after the disaster, as they continued to comb through the rubble of collapsed and burned buildings. The dead included 19 in Wajima, a city in Ishikawa Prefecture, the coastal epicenter of the earthquake, which […]
Read MorePowerful Earthquake Hits Japan, and Officials Warn of Aftershocks
A powerful earthquake struck western Japan on Monday, triggering tsunami warnings and evacuation orders, trapping people under collapsed buildings and disrupting electricity and mobile phone services in Ishikawa Prefecture, the epicenter of the quake, the Japanese authorities said. Initial reports suggested the quake did not cause the major tsunami waves or fatalities that had initially […]
Read MoreFukushima Disaster Still Looms Large in Japan Years After Quake
As Japan assesses the damage from Monday’s major earthquake, it is still reckoning with the devastating nuclear crisis triggered by an quake nearly 13 years ago, one that placed the name of Fukushima on par with Chernobyl’s and traumatized the nation. In March 2011, an 8.9-magnitude earthquake and a tsunami devastated the northeast coast of […]
Read MorePowerful Earthquake Hits Japan, Triggering Tsunami Warnings
A powerful earthquake hit the Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture in central Japan around 4:10 p.m. on Monday, triggering multiple tsunami warnings and evacuation orders in several prefectures. The quake had a magnitude of 7.6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. According to the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake […]
Read MoreChina Earthquake: In Bitter Cold, a Struggle to Help Survivors
Rescue workers strained to plow through eight-foot piles of frozen sludge, which blocked the entrances to destroyed villages. Emergency vehicles struggled to navigate icy, damaged mountain roads. Victims with serious injuries were rushed to hospitals in cities, as demand for medical care overwhelmed the villages’ limited capacities. In the wake of China’s deadliest earthquake in […]
Read MoreBiden’s Rating Dips on Gaza, and Marvel Drops Actor
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Read MoreChina Earthquake Kills Over 100 in Gangsu and Qinhai Provinces
An earthquake in northwestern China has killed at least 111 people and injured more than 200 others in two provinces, Chinese state media reported on Tuesday. Rescuers were searching for survivors after the quake, which jolted Jishishan County in Gansu Province late on Monday night. The province reported that 100 people had died, according to […]
Read MoreIceland Volcano Erupts Near Grindavik After Weeks of Earthquakes
A volcano in southwestern Iceland began erupting Monday with lava fountains reaching up to 330 feet and the glow visible from central Reykjavik. The location of the fissure poses a risk to the nearby Svartsengi Power Plant and the town of Grindavík that was evacuated in November following heightened seismic activity. “We are looking at […]
Read MoreAfter Earthquake, Morocco Debates How to Rebuild
Boujemaa Kouti still remembers the screams of his neighbors trapped under the rubble of their houses, calling for help that horrific night 63 years ago. He was just 8 and asleep when a large earthquake struck Morocco in 1960, wiping out entire neighborhoods in the coastal city of Agadir, near the Atlas Mountains, and killing […]
Read MoreIceland Works to Protect Power Plant as it Awaits a Volcanic Eruption
Iceland is fortifying a power plant that supplies electricity and hot water to about 30,000 people and is continuing to allow the residents of the evacuated town most at risk to go in one by one and gather personal belongings as the country waits for a possible volcanic eruption. The work on the power plant […]
Read MoreWhat to Know About Iceland’s Volcano Eruption and Possible Flight Disruptions
Iceland is bracing for a possible volcanic eruption. Since late October, tens of thousands of earthquakes have been reported in the Reykjanes Peninsula, in the southwestern part of the country. At one point there were as many as 1,400 in a single 24-hour period. On Tuesday, the Icelandic Met Office, the country’s weather service, warned […]
Read MoreEarthquake in Nepal Renews Fears on Preparations for a Bigger One
Officials in Nepal were still assessing the extent of the damage on Sunday from the earthquake that struck the country’s west two nights earlier, leaving at least 150 people dead and thousands either homeless or afraid to sleep indoors. But scientists were already renewing clear warnings that this Himalayan nation, which sits on the fault […]
Read MoreNepal Quake Kills at Least 37
KATHMANDU, Nepal — A magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook northwestern Nepal on Friday night, killing at least 37 people and injuring dozens more, according to officials. As rescuers searched the mountainous villages where the earthquake struck, officials cautioned that the death toll was expected to rise, noting that communications were cut off with many of the […]
Read MoreWho Is Local News Sensation ‘Dollarita Steve’?
Fall is a really great time to sip some tequila and indulge in expert recommendations from bartenders, but one man decided that he wanted to try out some not-so-fancy tequila over the weekend. So, he headed to an Applebee’s in San Francisco, where a slight earthquake struck (3.7 magnitude), and the local news hit him […]
Read MoreFood Aid Sustains Quake-Hit Villages in Morocco, for Now
After years of drought, water finally came to one parched region of the Atlas Mountains in northern Morocco last month, freed from the ground by the earthquake that killed thousands and devastated whole villages. In the days following the disaster, it bubbled up through cracks in the earth and flowed down arid stream beds to […]
Read MoreA Father, an Earthquake and the Desperate Search for a Missing Son
Noor Ahmad didn’t know where else to look. For days after a powerful earthquake leveled his village in Afghanistan, he scoured the district for his family. He dug under the rubble that was once their home. He combed through the trauma rooms in the regional hospital. He searched every body bag at the morgue, twice. […]
Read MoreAfghanistan Struck by Two More Strong Earthquakes
Two powerful earthquakes struck Herat Province in northwestern Afghanistan early on Sunday, jolting a region already hit by three major quakes over the past eight days that have killed more than 1,000 people. The magnitude-6.3 and magnitude-5.4 temblors struck the province just after 8 a.m. local time at a depth of about six miles, according […]
Read MoreIn Afghanistan, Fear and Despair After Three Big Earthquakes
The fear from a week of unrelenting earthquakes is palpable throughout the northwestern city of Herat in Afghanistan. Makeshift tents made of sticks and sheets have popped up across public parks, alleyways and grassy medians of main roads, the families within them too afraid to sleep in their homes. Men pray in the street instead […]
Read More‘The Wrath of God’: Afghans Mourn Unimaginable Loss From Quake
Wails echoed across what was left of the village when the ambulance arrived. Inside was the body of a 12-year-old girl, Roqia. She had died in a nearby hospital Tuesday morning, four days after a devastating earthquake hit this stretch of northwestern Afghanistan and sent her mud-brick home crashing down on top of her. The […]
Read MoreAfghanistan Struck By Large Quake Days After Deadly Temblors
A powerful earthquake struck Herat Province in Afghanistan near the border with Iran early Wednesday, several days after two major quakes in the same area killed more than 800 people. The magnitude 6.3 temblor struck northwestern Afghanistan at 5:22 a.m. local time at a depth of about 10 kilometers, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. […]
Read MoreEntire Villages Razed as Death Toll Soars From Quakes in Afghanistan
The death toll from two major earthquakes in northwestern Afghanistan rose to at least 813 people on Sunday, according to local authorities, making the dual shocks one of the deadliest natural disasters to hit the country in decades. The two earthquakes, both 6.3 magnitude, hit Herat Province, along the country’s border with Iran, on Saturday, […]
Read MoreAfghanistan Earthquakes Kill Nearly 200, Officials Say
Two 6.3-magnitude earthquakes killed nearly 200 people in western Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, the second major quake to hit the country in less than two years. At least 180 people were killed and around 600 injured, according to the chief of the regional hospital in Herat Province, where the quake struck hardest. The number […]
Read MoreNaci Gorur, Famous in Turkey for Earthquake Warnings, Wishes More People Listened
The news that a powerful earthquake had struck southern Turkey first reached the eminent geologist in a pre-dawn video call from a phone number he did not recognize. Barely awake, he answered to find himself face-to-face with a woman and her daughter trapped in the rubble of their collapsed home. “Professor, please save us,” he […]
Read MoreAntakya, Turkey, Struggles to Recover From Earthquake
The businessman fondly recalled his bakery and cafe in the ancient Turkish city of Antakya, where his staff made bread, cakes and cookies and locals gathered for breakfast, coffee and ice cream. It vanished in February, lost when the two powerful earthquakes that struck southern Turkey heavily damaged the building that housed it and left […]
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