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The death toll from Ecuador’s devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake rose to 602 people on Friday, as dozens of aftershocks shook cities and towns around the country, spooking residents but causing no further damage. Saturday’s quake, the worst in nearly seven decades, injured 12,492 people and left 130 missing, emergency management authorities said in a bulletin. Survivors were shaken again late on Thursday night when a powerful 6.0 magnitude quake struck off Ecuador’s coast about 100 […]
Heavy showers fell on earthquake-battered southern Japan, adding to the woes of residents already rattled by continuing aftershocks.
Hours after a 6.2 magnitude quake shook Ecuador, President Rafael Correa said on Wednesday (April 20) that the death toll was 525 from Saturday’s even bigger quake. The latest big tremor, which followed several hundred aftershocks from Saturday’s 7.8 quake, hit not far from Saturday’s quake– 25 km (15 miles) off the island of Muisne on the northwest coast at a depth of 15 km (9 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said. Correa said that, […]
According to the PHIVOLCS, 10 aftershocks have been recorded after the magnitude 5.5 earthquake in the province of Quezon. No tsunami alerts have been recorded for each aftershock.
(Reuters) – More than 100 aftershocks have been reported across Southern California following a 5.1 magnitude earthquake that rattled suburban Los Angeles and at least temporarily displaced about 50 people but caused no serious structural damage, seismologists said on Saturday. No injuries were reported from the Friday quake centered outside La Habra, about 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, but the temblor displaced at least 50 people in Fullerton, about 5 miles from the […]
