A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia’s Flores Island early Saturday, killing at least 47 people, injuring dozens and damaging homes and public facilities as thousands of residents were evacuated amid fears of further tremors.
Two major earthquakes struck Venezuela within seconds of each other on Wednesday, causing building collapses in Caracas, prompting a nationwide state of emergency, and raising fears of significant casualties and widespread damage across the country.
A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck in the Drake Passage on Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the Russian far east at 6.37 am local time Saturday (0237GMT), according to the United States Geological Survey.
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck southern Iran, on Tuesday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.
The intensity of the earthquake that occurred off the coast of the Kamchatka peninsula was 4 points.
An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 hit Hokkaido in Japan on Saturday afternoon.
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck Istanbul at midday Wednesday, causing panic throughout Turkey's largest city, according to the country's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD).
Local media in Turkey reported that an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 on the Richter scale shocked eastern region of Turkey.
An earthquake of magnitude 4.9 occurred around noon on Friday at 1:15 pm local time near Salamiyah, Hama province in west part of Syria, the Syrian Seismological Centre (SSC) reported.
