beijing - China Sunday marked the fifth anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake which killed more than 80,000 but some said questions remained over the thousands of children who died as their schools collapsed.The 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck the southwestern province of Sichuan on the afternoon ...

TEHRAN : A strong earthquake of 6.2 magnitude hit southern Iran early on Saturday, killing one child and injuring at least 20 others in remote, mountainous villages, state television reported.The US Geological Survey registered the quake at 0208 GMT, measured at 85 kilometres (52 miles) southeast ...

  BEIJING   A Chinese city is using dogs to predict earthquakes, an official said Tuesday, after state-run media reported that neighbours were complaining of nightly false alarms - in the form of barking. Chinais regularly hit by seismic tremors. Around 200 people were left dead or ...

ISLAMABAD - Earthquake tremors were felt in upper parts of the country including Jammu and Kashmir region, the Pakistan Metrological Department said on Wednesday. According to the US Geological Survey, the earthquake measured 5.7 on the Richter scale with its epicentre in Indian held Kashmir, some ...

A moderate earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted several parts of Punjab, Kashmir and Khyber Pakhutnkhwa on Wednesday.The epicenter of the quake was centered in Eastern Kashmir.According to reports, quake tremors were felt in Islamabad, Lahore, Peashawar, Rawalpindi, Jehlum, Murree, ...

ISLAMABAD - A 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit southeastern parts of Afghanistan which rocked a large part of Pakistan on Wednesday afternoon. No casualty was reported but a media report said that some walls of mud-houses collapsed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.The Pakistan Meteorological Department measured ...

A strong 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit Southeastern part of Afghanistan which shacked most of Pakistani cities and towns on Wednesday afternoon.According to initial reports, no loss was reported so for, however a media report said some walls of mud-houses collapsed in Khyber Pakhtoonkhaw because of ...

KLUSHAN: Clogged roads, debris and landslides impeded rescuers Monday as they battled to find survivors of a powerful earthquake in mountainous southwestChinathat has left at least 192 dead. Huge boulders blocked rescue vehicles along roads leading to some of the worst-hit areas, and some areas ...

LUSHAN, ChinaThousands of rescue workers combed through flattened villages in southwest China on Sunday in a race to find survivors from a powerful quake as the toll of dead and missing rose past 200.Dressed in bright orange uniforms, rescuers battled their way up mountain paths strewn with ...

YA’AN - SN - A reporter from a local Chinese TV station has interrupted her own wedding to cover the news of the powerful earthquake that struck the city of Ya'an.Chen Ying was getting her make-up done at a local photographic studio ahead of her wedding ceremony when the quake hit. The bride ...

YA'AN, China More than 150 people were killed and 5,700 injured when a strong earthquake hit a mountainous part of southwestern China on Saturday, destroying thousands of homes and triggering landslides.The shallow earthquake struck Sichuan province on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau just after ...

QUETTA  - Hundreds of earthquake victims on Friday took out a rally and staged demonstration in Mashkail tehsil of Washuk district against non-provision of daily-use items and blaming the government for failing to provide adequate relief.The protesters took out the rally at Mashkail Bazaar ...

A strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit a remote, mostly rural and mountainous area of southwestern China's Sichuan province on Saturday, killing at least 71 people and injuring about 2,200 close to where a big quake killed almost 70,000 people in 2008.The earthquake occurred at 8.02 a.m. (0002 GMT) ...

TEHRAN:- AFP A 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit northwestern Iran on Thursday, only days after a deadly temblor struck near the border with Pakistan, media reported citing the seismological centre at Tehran University. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage in the latest quake which ...

quetta - Though the relief operation has been started in earthquake-hit Mashkail tehsil of Washuk district, the victims are not satisfied with the relief operation.“We have heard that tents and food have been distributed among the victims but we are still waiting for aid,” complains, ...

TEHRANAFPA huge earthquake that struck Iran's rural southeast region killed one woman and injured more than two dozen other people, media reports Wednesday cited officials as saying."A woman was killed by a mountain landslide following the quake," Alireza Shahraki, governor of Khash city, was ...

Quetta - Aftershocks, as strong as magnitude six, jolted parts of Balochistan again on Wednesday morning, creating fear and panic among the people, while the death toll from Tuesday’s earthquake increased to 41.More than 20,000 people are still waiting for relief activities in tehsil ...

WASHINGTON - The United States on Tuesday offered condolences to the Pakistani victims of the deadly earthquake that jolted the Iran-Pakistan border region, and said it was ready to provide humanitarian aid to them.“We have seen the reports of the earthquake near Khashkhail on the ...

An aftershock of magnitude six on Richter scale jolted parts of Balochistan again on Wednesday morning creating fright and panic among the people.According to details, an earthquake hit the Mashkel Tehsil of Washuk district of Balochistan located on the Pak-Iran borde. The tremor centered in ...

ANTS are able to sense earthquakes before they strike, new research has suggested.Researchers have discovered red wood ants prefer to build their colonies along active faults, fractures where the Earth ruptures, in Germany.Gabriele Berberich, of the University of Duisburg-Essen, in Germany, said ...

WASHINGTON   - The White House has expressed condolences to its long-time foe Iran over an earthquake which killed 37 people and damaged dozens of villages near its sole nuclear power plant. National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden also said in a statement that Washington ...

TEHRAN  – A powerful 6.1 magnitude earthquake that hit southern Iran on Tuesday killed ‘at least 20 people,’ the official IRNA news agency reported, quoting a local health official.“At least 20 bodies have been taken to the morgue” in the city of Khormoj, an ...

A powerful earthquake struck near Iran's Gulf port city of Bushehr on Tuesday, killing at least 30 people and injuring 800 but leaving Iran's only nuclear power plant intact, officials said.Shocks from the quake were felt across the Gulf in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, ...

Parts of upper areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab including the federal capital was rattled by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake early Saturday morning.The jolts were felt in Islamabad and areas in its vicinity, Swat, Dir, Chitral, Malakand division. The tremors were recorded in today’s wee ...

Islamabad - A 5.9 magnitude earthquake jolted Punjab, Islamabad and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, adjoining tribal belt and Azad Kashmir. The tremors were felt in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Peshawar, Swat, Azad Kashmir, Chitral, Kurram Agency Lower Dir, Battagram, Mianwali, Shangla, Mardan, ...

PESHAWAR - Earthquake measuring 5.1 on the richer scale jolted Peshawar and its adjacent district on Tuesday. However, no casualty was reported.According to the Pakistan Metrological Department (PMD), the intensity of the earthquake was magnitude 5.1 on Richter scale. The earthquake tremors were ...

SYDNEY - A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit in the South Pacific near Vanuatu and New Caledonia’s Loyalty Islands on Friday, the US Geological Survey said. The quake struck at a depth of 36 kilometres (22 miles) at 0709 GMT, 60 kilometres northeast of Isangel in Vanuatu and 324 kilometres ...

TOKYO - The number of people who took their own lives in Japan drastically increased in the aftermath of last year’s huge tsunami and the nuclear disaster it triggered, the government said Friday. A more than 20 percent rise in the amount of suicides in one month was likely attributable at ...

MOSCOW  - A strong 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit Russia’s southeastern and sparsely populated region of Tuva on Sunday, shaking residents near the Mongolian border from their sleep, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The US Geological Survey said the epicenter of ...

NEW YORK - The United States used the 2005 Kashmir earthquake to send operatives from the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC — the elite military unit that killed Osama bin Laden – into Pakistan, reveals a new book.That’s the disclosure made in just-published eBook ...