earthquake

AFP/APPLos Angeles: A powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Saturday shook a mountainous, sparsely populated area straddling the border of the US state of Alaska and Canada's Yukon territory, seismologists said.The temblor at 2041…

News Desk Islamabad: A light earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale was recorded in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) during the past 24 hours, according to real-time seismic monitoring data. The region, located along active fault…

AFP/APPPadang, Indonesia: The toll in deadly flooding and landslides across parts of Asia climbed past 1,100 on Monday as hardest-hit Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel to help survivors.Separate weather systems…

AFP/APPDhaka: A powerful earthquake struck outside Bangladesh's crowded capital Dhaka on Friday, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 300, authorities said.The 5.5-magnitude quake hit at 10:38 am (0438 GMT) near…

AFP/APPDhaka: A powerful earthquake struck Bangladesh on Friday outside the crowded capital Dhaka, killing at least three people and injuring many others, health officials said.According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the…

AFP/APP Mazar-i-Sharif: A powerful earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale struck northern Afghanistan overnight, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 300 others, according to the country’s health ministry.The…

AFP/APPJakarta: A powerful magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck Indonesia’s eastern province of Papua on Thursday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, and no tsunami warning was…

News Desk Peshawar: Governor Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Faisal Karim Kundi administered the oath of office to the newly elected Chief Minister, Sohail Afridi, in a ceremony held at the Governor House on Wednesday.The event was attended by…

News DeskSwat: Residents of Swat and nearby regions were jolted by an earthquake on Monday, prompting many to flee their homes and shops in panic. People ran towards open spaces as tremors spread fear across the area.The…

Xinhua/APPManila: An offshore earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 struck Davao Oriental province in the southern Philippines on Friday morning, prompting the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology to issue a tsunami warning…