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With the final countdown to this year's Rugby World Cup in Japan well under way, organizers are focusing their efforts on contingency planning in the notoriously earthquake and typhoon-prone country, tournament director Alan Gilpin told AFP. On the pitch, Gilpin predicted the 2019 edition of ...
A 5.0 magnitude earthquake has rattled Alaska residents through the Anchorage area and beyond. There are no immediate reports of damage or injuries after Sunday morning's earthquake. It was an aftershock of the magnitude 7.0 Anchorage earthquake that struck on Nov. 30. The Alaska Earthquake Center says ...
Municipalities in quake-hit Kumamoto vie to host one of eight planned 'One Piece' statues
The Kumamoto Prefectural Government plans to set up more statues related to "One Piece," a hugely popular manga series, to cheer up local residents in the prefecture, which was hit by powerful earthquakes in 2016 and another one just last week. The venues for the ...
Mount Etna volcano-triggered earthquake jolts Sicily, hurts at least 10, triggers predawn panic
An earthquake triggered by Mount Etna's eruption jolted eastern Sicily before dawn Wednesday, injuring at least 10 people, damaging churches and houses on the volcano's slopes and prompting panicked villagers to flee their homes. Italy's Civil Protection officials said the quake, which struck at 3:19 ...
Death toll tops 370 in Indonesian tsunami disaster as search for at least 128 missing continues
Body bags were laid out along the shattered coastline as Indonesian authorities stepped up efforts to collect the dead and save the injured Monday in the aftermath of tsunami apparently triggered by a volcanic eruption. The death toll climbed to 373 and was certain ...
Iran quake injures more than 700; Rouhani orders relief effort
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said no effort should be spared to help victims of a 6.3 magnitude earthquake on Iran's western border with Iraq that injured more than 700 people, most suffering minor wounds, state television reported on Monday. The Sunday night earthquake was felt ...
Hokkaido industries still struggling following quake-triggered blackout
Key industries in Hokkaido are still struggling with secondary damage from the massive blackout triggered by the powerful earthquake a month ago. The power outage even forced factories far away from the seismic center of the 6.7 magnitude earthquake to suspend operations. Food and beverage factories ...
M5.2 earthquake rocks southern Hokkaido but no tsunami warning issued
An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 5.2 jolted Hokkaido on Friday morning, the biggest since a deadly quake rocked Japan's northernmost main island about a month ago, the Meteorological Agency said. The 8:58 a.m. quake, which occurred in a southern part of the island ...
Time running out in search for survivors of Indonesia's quake and tsunami
Time was running out for anyone trapped in the rubble of a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia on Wednesday, five days after disaster struck, while increasingly angry survivors waited for an aid operation to move into high gear. The official death toll from the ...
Indonesia to start mass burials of over 800 killed in earthquake and tsunami
A mass burial of earthquake and tsunami victims began in a hard-hit city Monday as the need for heavy equipment to dig for survivors of the disasters that struck a central Indonesian island grows increasingly desperate. The toll of more than 800 dead is largely ...
Young Indonesian air traffic controller hailed as quake hero
An Indonesian air traffic controller is being posthumously hailed as a hero for refusing to leave his post despite devastating earthquakes so that he could guide a passenger jet safely off the ground. Twenty-one-year-old Anthonius Gunawan Agung was on duty in the air traffic control ...
5.0 magnitude earthquake rocks Indonesia's Aceh but no tsunami warning issued
A 5.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia's western Aceh province early Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The shallow quake struck shortly before 1 a.m. local time with its epicenter 20 km northwest of the city ...
