Japanese officials said on Sunday a tsunami was unlikely after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake was recorded several hundred miles off the coast of Japan on Sunday, shaking buildings in Tokyo. No injuries or damage were reported.
Rescue workers pulled out 23 survivors and seven bodies from the rubble of hotels toppled by a 5.7 magnitude earthquake in eastern Turkey Thursday, just weeks after another quake in the same town killed more than 600 people.
Hotels and offices collapsed in Van province in eastern Turkey Wednesday evening after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck, according to state TV. More than 600 people died after a quake hit the same area last month.
The death toll from a devastating 7.2-magnitude earthquake in eastern Turkey rose to more than 600 on Sunday as officials announced the end of rescue efforts. Some 231 people were pulled alive from the rubble.
Rescue workers were locked in a race against time on Tuesday to find survivors more than 48 hours after a powerful earthquake flattened thousands of buildings in eastern Turkey, killing more than 400 people.
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At least 279 people were killed after a 7.2 Richter point earthquake hit the eastern part of Turkey on Sunday, with over 1000 injured and hundreds missing in the cities of Van and Ercis. Rescue efforts were hampered by power outages.
At least 70 people were killed after a powerful earthquake hit the eastern part of Turkey on Sunday, causing dozens of buildings to collapse and sparking widespread panic in the cities of Van and Ercis.
The death toll from a 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck northeastern India, Nepal and Tibet rose to at least 39 on Monday as rescue workers battled rain and landslides in their search for survivors.
An earthquake, witnessed live in our Washington studio, interrupts heated discussion over whether the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case will discourage women from pressing rape charges.
