News Source: Asia Times
| 2 months ago
It's early evening thousands of kilometers away at the offices of the United States Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado, and Sumatran tectonics expert Richard Briggs is studying a series of seven-plus magnitude earthquakes that had just struck off...
News Source: News 24
| 2 months ago
A 7.0 earthquake struck off Vanuatu on Thursday, following three other major quakes nearby, but there was no widespread tsunami threat, the US Geological Survey and Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said. Three powerful earthquakes with magnitudes of 7.
News Source: Voice of America
| 2 months ago
A week after earthquakes and tsunamis caused hundreds of deaths in Indonesia and the Samoan islands, four new quakes have rattled the Pacific, far out to sea. A tsunami warning for 11 nations and territories, including Vanuatu and Fiji, was issued...
News Source: Times Online
| 2 months ago
In south-central Japan, a 54-year old newspaper delivery man died when he drove his motorbike into a fallen tree as Typhoon Melor brought heavy rain and winds as fast as 198 kilometres (123 miles) an hour. Dozens more people were injured and...
News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 2 months ago
The center canceled the tsunami warnings after sea-level readings indicated that the wave generated by the quakes was too small to cause much damage. There were no immediate reports of injury or damage from officials in Vanuatu, a chain of 83 islands.
News Source: NewKerala
| 2 months ago
But officials issued a warning that people should stay away from beaches on part of the coastline. The US Geological Survey reported three quakes off Vanuatu within the space of less than an hour, starting at 2141 GMT with a 6.7 temblor in the...