A powerful under-sea earthquake in Indonesia on Monday killing one person and leaving many injured. According to officials, at least twenty people were hospitalized with broken bones and at least 80 sustained minor injuries. It was believed that two people had been killed by the tremor but the number was reduced to one. The man [...]

A powerful earthquake tore through central Italy on Monday devastating historic mountain towns and killing at least 40 people, authorities said. Many remained unaccounted for as emergency services scrambled to find victims trapped under collapsed buildings in L’Aquila, which bore the brunt of the quake, and officials warned that the toll would rise. Prime Minister [...]

Very interesting piece in the New Scientist: CAN unusual clouds signal the possibility of an impending earthquake? That’s the question being asked following the discovery of distinctive cloud formations above an active fault in Iran before each of two large earthquakes occurred. Geophysicists Guangmeng Guo and Bin Wang of Nanyang Normal University in Henan, China, [...]

Peru’s prime minister pleaded for emergency aid — ”even coffins” — as the toll from the strongest earthquake to hit this country in 35 years climbed Thursday to 510 dead, more than 1,550 injured and tens of thousands homeless. With both the hospitals and a crowded 18th century church in this city of 130,000 destroyed, [...]

A powerful earthquake has struck Indonesia, rattling tall buildings and panicking residents. The quake’s epicenter on the main island of Java was 66 miles from Jakarta and it hit with a magnitude of 7.4, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Fortunately, because of the depth of the quake, there was little risk of it generating a [...]