Aus quake could be to blame
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Sydney - The massive earthquake that unleashed deadly tidal waves across southeast Asia may have been triggered by a smaller quake last week off Australia&#39;s island state of Tasmania, a seismologist said on Monday.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia  - A powerful earthquake rocked large parts of Southeast Asia on Sunday. The quake caused dozens of small buildings to collapse and triggered tidal waves in northwestern Indonesia, witnesses and officials said.
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The extraordinary loss of life from Sunday's earthquake and tsunami waves is prompting Asian governments to consider developing a more comprehensive and effective warning system.
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Tuesday nightâs 5.6 magnitude quake near San Francisco set off worries among scientists that the tremor could be a precursor of worse to come.
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[World News]: Sydney/Colombo, Dec 27 : Did the smaller and earlier tremor last week off Tasmania in Australia trigger the tsunami that devastated many areas in South and Southeast Asia.
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(AGI) Ãâ Rome, Italy, December 30 Ãâ The victims of the sea quake in South East Asia will be Ãâfar more than 100,000Ãâ said the PM Silvio Berlusconi during the end of year press conference.
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Rescue workers are urging thousands of people to evacuate their homes after deadly storms lashed Australia&#39;s east coast, leaving parts of one city looking like an earthquake had struck, officials said Sunday.
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A huge bomb blast in Indonesia killed at least eight people and injured more than 100. The target was the Australian Embassy, raising speculation that Islamic militants were behind the attack.
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The deadly Asian earthquake may have permanently accelerated the Earth&#39;s rotation -- shortening days by a fraction of a second -- and caused the planet to wobble on its axis, US scientists said on Tuesday.
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A wave of small earthquakes that has caused alarm in southern Chile may be related to the birth of an undersea volcano, officials said Tuesday.
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LONDON: A scientist looking to pinpoint the next big earthquake has warned the US east coast could be destroyed by a tsunami unleashed by the collapse of a volcanic island in the eastern Atlantic.
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Japanese mobile telephone users may soon be warned of an earthquake in their area before it even strikes.
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The deadly Asian quake may have permanently accelerated the Earth&#39;s rotation, shortening days by a fraction of a second, US scientists have said.
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A NASA scientist says the devastating Dec. 26 earthquake off Sumatra may have caused the planet to spin 3 millionths of a second faster and wobble about an inch on its axis. But scientists don't think such tiny shifts will have long-term effects.
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Faulty equipment, poor communications and cumbersome bureaucracy are being blamed for the failure of nations around the Indian Ocean's rim to warn communities about to be hit by one of the world's most devastating natural disasters.
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An 8.1 magnitude earthquake that struck in Antarctic waters on yesterday -- the biggest recorded in the world this year -- would have devastated a city had it been much closer, according to a New Zealand seismologist.
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IT COULD HAPPEN HERE: Tsunami scientists and public safety officials say the West Coast could experience a calamity similar to the one in southern Asia.