Powerful earthquake jolts remote area of Tibet
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A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit a remote and sparsely inhabited part of the Tibetan plateau in western China on Wednesday, the Xinhua news agency reported.
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TOKYO - A strong quake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 jolted Japan&#39;s northernmost main island of Hokkaido Thursday night, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
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ONE person is dead, another missing, and 23 injured after a series of earthquakes in southwestern China&#39;s Yunnan province, state media and officials have reported.
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Search efforts are focusing on a remote region near Tibet where two elite American climbers apparently wanted to climb two isolated mountains.
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A magnitude-5.1 earthquake has rocked the northern Baja California region of Mexico near the U.S. border
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A strong earthquake shook southwest China's Yunnan province early Sunday, killing at least two and injuring hundreds, state media reported.
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A moderate earthquake rattled a remote mountain area in Iran overnight, injuring 10 people and damaging 70 buildings, the official IRNA news agency reported Thursday.
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A strong earthquake jolted the  northwestern Japanese area of Niigata on Monday, the Japanese  Meteorological Agency said. The preliminary magnitude was 6.6.
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TOKYO - A powerful earthquake with a magnitude 7.0 has jolted the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan. Japan&#39;s Meteorological Agency warned the quake could create a tidal wave off the eastern shores of the island.
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[World News]: Kunming (China), Dec 27 : One person was killed after an earthquake Sunday hit Shuangbai County in the Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Chuxiong in southwest China&#39;s Yunnan Province.
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A strong earthquake with a magnitude of  5.9 jolted northern Japan on Monday in the latest aftershock to  hit a region struck by a deadly tremor last month.
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A strong quake, with a magnitude of 5.5 on the Richter scale, jolted northern Japan, near an area that was recently hit by tsunamis, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
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A strong earthquake shook a group of islands in Indonesia Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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A powerful earthquake jolted Indonesia&#39;s eastern province of Papua Friday, killing at least 12 people and injuring more than 100 others.
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A strong earthquake in the north of Indonesia's Sumatra island topples buildings and causes choppy seas.
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7th Ld: Strong quake hits SW Chinese county, killing three, injuring 290    KUNMING, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Three people have been confirmed dead and at least 290 injured after a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 on the Richter scale struck southwest China's Yunnan Province on Sunday.
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A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 has shaken northern Japan in the same region that was hit by a deadly tremor last month, but there are no immediate reports of damage or injuries.