A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake has struck near the east coast of Russia’s Kamchatka region, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage.The quake’s epicenter was 127 kilometers (79 miles) east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and it struck at 6:58 a.m. Friday local tim...

A shallow 6.1-magnitude earthquake of struck Indonesia’s Central Papua province early on Sept 19, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported.The earthquake’s epicentre was located 28km south of the town of Nabire, which is on the Indonesian half of the large Pacific island shared with Papua New Guinea...

COLOMBO (News 1st); A minor earthquake has occurred in the sea off Trincomalee.The Geological Survey and Mines Bureau said that the earthquake occurred at around 4.06 pm today.Its intensity is 3.9 magnitude.The earthquake occurred in the ocean region 60 kilometers from Trincomalee.The Geological Sur...

(BBC) More than 600 people are feared dead after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake hits eastern Afghanistan, the Taliban interior ministry reports.The quake, at a shallow depth of 8km (6 miles), shook buildings from Kabul to Pakistan's capital Islamabad .The remote area where it struck makes providing accu...

(Reuters) - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck near the Myanmar-India border on Friday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), EMSC said....