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Thousands of rescuers were searching for survivors in freezing conditions Wednesday after a devastating earthquake in China's ...

A hiker missing for nearly two weeks in an Australian national park has been found alive, officials said Wednesday.

The epicentre of the quake was located in Tingri, a rural area known as the northern gateway to the Everest region, at a ...

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there is no tsunami threat to Guam or the Northern Marianas from an earthquake in the Vanuatu Islands. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded an earthquake ...

December 26, 2024, marks the 20th year since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami ... after the rising water levels tripped the detectors. There was no release of radioactive material ...

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Watch: Buildings collapse and landslides after 7.3 magnitude Vanuatu earthquake Rescuers in Vanuatu are racing to find survivors trapped in buildings, a day after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck ...

engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves — a key link in a warning system intended to ensure no disaster is as deadly again. On Dec. 26, 2004, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake under the Indian ...