Quake Hits Ocean Floor Near Australia
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An extremely powerful earthquake struck the ocean floor between Australia and Antarctica early Friday, causing buildings to shake hundreds of miles away on the island of Tasmania, authorities said. There were no reports of damage or injuries.
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A 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck near southern Indonesia today, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Ken Navidad at the USGS said the tsunami centers in the Pacific and Alaska initially said two quakes, but he did not know why. He said his agency has measured only one.
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A 6.2 magnitude undersea quake jolted eastern Indonesia on Monday, damaging some houses and sparking panic among residents but causing no deaths, a meteorology agency official said.
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A strong undersea earthquake has struck  Indonesia&#39;s Mollucas islands, blacking out power in the town of  Labuha, but not triggering a tsunami warning, officials at the  country&#39;s meteorology agency said on Tuesday.
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A strong earthquake with a magnitude of up to 7.0 has struck the Pacific's Samoa islands region, sparking a brief tsunami threat that sent ripples -- but no big waves -- across the region.
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Australia's southern state of Tasmania  was rocked by the world's largest earthquake in  three-and-a-half years when it struck under the sea half way  between Australia and Antarctica on Friday, seismologists said.
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An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 struck an area in the sea 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Dili, the capital of East Timor, the US Geological Survey said.
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The world's biggest earthquake in almost four years, measuring 8.1 on the Richter Scale, was registered off the coast of Australia's southern island state of Tasmania, seismological officials said.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. SYDNEY, Australia -- The world&#39;s biggest earthquake in almost four years, measuring 8.1 on the Richter Scale
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A powerful earthquake hits Indonesia, causing little damage but rattling Singapore and Malaysia.
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A powerful earthquake measuring 7.9 struck near Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday triggering tsunami warnings across the region, officials said.
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The world&#39;s biggest earthquake in almost four years, measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale, struck off the coast of Australia&#39;s southern island state of Tasmania early on Friday, but caused no damage or injury.
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Australia and New Zealand joined forces to airlift emergency aid to victims of the monster earthquake and tidal waves which devastated coastal areas of south and southeast Asia over the weekend.
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The world's biggest earthquake in almost four years, measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale, struck off the coast of Australia's southern island state of Tasmania, but caused no damage or injury.
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A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake  jolted the Indian Ocean off Indonesia's Sumatra island early on  Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or  casualties and a brief tsunami alert was lifted.
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A strong earthquake has struck Indonesia, killing nine people on Sumatra island and triggering deadly tsunami waves. The US Geological Survey measured the quake at 8.5 on the Richter scale, and
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - The world's fifth-largest  quake in a century hit southern Asia on Sunday, unleashing a  tsunami that crashed into Sri Lanka and India, drowning  thousands and swamping tourist isles in Thailand and the  Maldives.