カテゴリー: Earthquakes
No immediate reports of casualties or major damage after tremor shakes town of Cianjur that was devastated last monthA 5.7-magnitude earthquake has hit Indonesia’s main island of Java, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, shaking the same t…
Drone footage shows the extreme damage to homes, in many cases reduced to rubble, after an earthquake hit Indonesia’s main island of Java on Monday. Thousands of people have been displaced as a result, while the death toll has risen to more than 270. T…
Azka, whose mother died in disaster, probably survived due to being protected by a mattress, while 40 people remain missing in CianjurDriving rain and the danger of landslides disrupted the work of Indonesian rescue workers searching on Wednesday for s…
Rescuers pulled five-year-old Azka from the rubble on the third day of a search for about 40 people missing in the earthquake-struck town of Cianjur in Indonesia on Wednesday. Azka was among the survivors of a deadly earthquake that struck th…
School buildings should not only withstand quakes but also act as temporary shelter during disasters, says engineering expertSafety standards for school buildings in Indonesia should be prioritised after Monday’s earthquake, experts have said, as more …
A magnitude-5.6 earthquake hit Indonesia’s main island of Java on Monday, causing hundreds of deaths and destroying thousands of homes. Officials have said many of the dead are schoolchildren who were in class when the quake struck. Rescuers are r…
Death toll of Java quake rises to 268, with dozens of schools affected, as rescuers race against time to find survivorsThe death toll from the earthquake that struck Indonesia’s main island of Java on Monday has risen to 268, and many of the dead are s…
At least 162 people killed after magnitude-5.6 quake triggered landslides, damaging homes and leaving thousands displaced Continue reading…
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 has shaken Java, Indonesia’s main island, killing at least 162 people. Dozens of buildings were destroyed. The earthquake centred in the Cianjur region, about 60 miles from the capital, Jakarta, at a depth of 6 mil…
Rescue operation under way after magnitude-5.6 quake triggers landslides and causes buildings to collapseAt least 162 people have been killed after a magnitude-5.6 earthquake struck Indonesia’s main island of Java, triggering landslides and causing bui…
At least one person has died after a strong earthquake shook much of Taiwan, toppling a three-storey building and temporarily trapping four people in Yuli. About 400 tourists in the town were stranded on a mountain following a landslide. The …
Train partially derails and residents are trapped inside collapsed block after 6.9-magnitude quakeAt least one person has died after a strong earthquake shook much of Taiwan, toppling a three-storey building and temporarily trapping four people inside,…
There were no reports of any injuries or damage in the immediate aftermath of the quakeA 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck south-eastern Taiwan on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said. The quake hit just after 9.30pm (1330 GMT) about 50km (30 miles) n…
People prevented from leaving their apartments in the aftermath of 6.8 magnitude quake that killed up to 65Authorities in southwestern China’s Chengdu have maintained strict Covid-19 lockdown measures on the city of 21 million despite a big earthquake …
Dozens of people have been killed in a powerful earthquake that jolted Luding county in south-west China’s Sichuan province. The quake was felt by millions of people confined to their homes under a strict Covid lockdown in Chengdu. State broadcast…