(IANS) An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale rocked India's northeast, Myanmar and Bangladesh Monday, triggering panic among people.
The tremor was felt at 8.47 a.m. in most parts of Assam, Nagaland, and Manipur, besides in Bangladesh and Myanmar.
The epicentre was located at 24.947°N, 95.226°E in Myanmar, about 130 km east of Manipur capital Imphal, the website of US Geological Survey said.
Seven northeastern states - Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur - are considered by seismologists to be the sixth most earthquake-prone belt in the world.
The region experienced one of the worst earthquakes, measuring 8.7 on the Richter scale, in 1897, that claimed the lives of over 1,600 people.
In September, more than 50 people died after a killer quake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale shook the region.
2011/4/7 13:23:05 Even before the tiny island country Japan settles down from its worst quake, Tsunami affects, another earth quake rocked the capital Tokyo city today. The impact is measured 7.1 on Rector scale and the epi center of the quake is 333km away from Tokyo, according to local news reports.
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan's Miyagi Prefecture – the region worst affected by the huge March 11 quake and tsunami – at 11:32 p.m. local time on Thursday. Evacuation orders were issued for hundreds of homes along the northeast coastline.
Tsunami advisories were immediately issued, but were lifted approximately one hour later. The quake is the strongest of the hundreds of aftershocks that have shaken Japan since the magnitude 9.0 temblor on March 11.
That earthquake caused a tsunami that destroyed thousands of homes, displaced nearly a half million people, and severely crimped the iconic fishing industry there.
The center of the earthquake was 40 kilometers below the seabed, about 60 miles east of the city of Sendai and about 90 miles from Fukushima, according to Japan's Meteorological Agency.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) says that the quake hasn’t caused any further damage to the Daiichi nuclear power plant and that all the workers have been temporarily evacuated from the facilities. There were no injuries reported.
2011/9/19 3:09:53 An earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter Scale shook Maharashtra early Monday, barely 12 hours after a powerful quake jolted northern and eastern India, an official said.
According to an official of the Seismological Monitoring Centre, the quake was felt at 6.22 a.m. with the epicentre in Latur district.
Though there are unconfirmed reports of minor damage to a few houses in some villages, no casualties have been reported so far, an official said.
The quake was felt, among other areas, in Latur, Parbhani, Osmanabad and Solapur districts. (IANS)
2011/1/18 20:22:47 An earth quake recorded as 7.4 on Rector Scale terrifies the people of Delhi, Gaziabhad, Noida, Jaisalmer, Ganga Nagar and surrounding places, who experienced sever tremors for one minute on Monday night around 1.54am. The epic centre of the quake lies at 1,285km away from New Delhi in Northwest parts of Pakistan. However, there was no loss of properties or human lives were reported.
2011/10/23 11:10:21 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale jolted eastern Turkey Sunday, said the US Geological Survey. Turkey's Anatolia news agency put the scale at 6.6.
The tremblor's epicentre, with a depth of 7.20 kilometers, was initially determined to be at 38.6270 degrees north latitude and 43.5349 degrees east longitude, Xinhua quoted the US Geological Survey as saying.
The quake destroyed several buildings in Van and caused panic. The quake was felt in the cities of Diyarbakir, Sirnak, Siirt, Batman and Mardin.
Over 100 people feared dead under debris and hundreds severely injured in this quake. Rescue teams are searching for the people trapped under debris.
This is the first ever massive earth quake that hits Turkey.
2011/8/23 23:27:38 Earth quake measuring 5.9-6 on Richter scale shakes USA on Tuesday noon. Washington, New York, New Jersey, Colorado, Virginia and North Carolina cities have experienced this horrific situation. However, there is no loss of life but some loss of properties reported. The quake remains active for around 15 seconds. Officials have vacated the Presidential White House, Pentagon and US Capital Building as a safety measure. The epee center of the earth quake is located in Richmond city in Virginia State that is 139 km away from Washington.
2011/9/18 22:54:59 Tremors shook some parts of Maharashtra early Monday, barely 12 hours after the earthquake that rocked northern and eastern India, an official said.
The tremors were recorded around 6.20 a.m., but the intensity or its epicentre have not yet been confirmed, the official from the Seismological Monitoring Centre here said.
So far there is no information on loss of life or property from anywhere.
Among the areas which were shaken up Monday include Latur, Osmanabad and Solapur districts.
Maharashtra had been hit by a mega-quake Sep 30, 1993. (IANS)
(IANS) A 6.9-magnitude quake struck off the coast of central Peru Friday, Xinhua reported.
The tremor occurred at 18:54:35 GMT, the US Geological Survey said. The epicentre was located at 14.46 degrees south latitude and 75.99 degrees west longitude.
2011/10/20 22:53:18 An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale hit Gujarat state Thursday night, the Seismology department said. There were no immediate reports of casualty or damage to property.
The quake, which had its epicentre in Junagad district of Gujarat, hit the region at 8.49 p.m., an official told IANS over phone.
The epicentre, with a focal depth of 10 km, was stated to be 21.2 degrees north latitude and 70.7 degrees east longitude. IANS
2011/9/20 2:10:05 The toll in the devastating weekend earthquake in Sikkim Tuesday went up to 40 with five more bodies being recovered during overnight operations from separate places, an official said.
Workers recovered the five bodies from various locations in north and east Sikkim, said an official at the central control room in the state capital here.
About 300 people were injured in the 6.8 magnitude quake, with reports from far-flung areas also pouring in.
Road links between the state and the rest of the country, snapped since Sunday due to landslides, were restored. But there are still stretches where mudslides are continuing.
More than 5,000 army police and paramilitary troopers are engaged in a massive rescue and relief operation, with more than half of them deployed in the worst-hit north Sikkim areas.
Authorities opened at least 100 relief camps to provide food and medicines to those whose homes are damaged.
Sunday's quake rattled large parts of India, from New Delhi to Mizoram. It also shook Nepal, Tibet and Bangladesh. (IANS)
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A massive earth quake followed by Tsunami struck Japan on Friday measuring 8.8 on Rector Scale. Including Japan capital Tokyo, many cities across the country were badly affected by the earth quake and Tsunami. Several air ports in the country were closed down as many of them were submerged under gushing sea waters. Power, Communication, Train services were badly affected with this multiple disasters. Japan has closed down all its 5 Nuclear power plants and its power plants to avoid further disaster. Although, there was no reports about the loss of human lives, lakhs of people become homeless with in minutes of the disaster. Japan is looking for international aid to overcome its critical situation.
Philippines, Russia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Australia, Mexico, chili, New Zealand and some other countries were alerted of possible Tsunami attack. However, Centre has declared that there is no threat for India.
The earthquake Sunday damaged some Indian Army bunkers in eastern Sikkim near Nathu-La pass along the India-China border and left many soldiers injured, said sources.
Helicopters were deployed to evacuate the soldiers, said sources adding that on-ground army installations were intact. The required soldier strength in the sensitive area was in place, they said.
The 6.8-magnitude quake of around two minutes followed by after-shocks rocked the region and caused the damage to the bunkers. According to sources, rescue work was getting affected because of land slides in the area as a result of torrential rains in the past two days.
Army contingents in small teams have been deployed in rescue missions across Sikkim to provide humanitarian assistance. Army units comprising medical teams, engineer detachments as also personnel for relief and rescue operation have been pressed into service, said sources. (IANS)
2011/3/15 12:19:18 As if the almighty has cursed the humble Japanese people, once again they were put to face another earth quake on Monday morning. The epee centre of the earth quake lies 250km away from Tokyo. The intensity of the earth quake was measured as 6.0 on Rector Scale. People, who were experiencing the worst nightmares of their lives, were terrified with the latest earth quake.
On the other side, two big explosions takes place in the Nuclear power plants located in #OOPS#shima city, with which radiation grew to dangerous levels. Japan Government has already evacuated more than 2.5 lakhs people from the surrounding areas of the power plant in #OOPS#shima city and its planning for a complete evacuation of the entire city.
The radiation generated out of the blasts is now gradually spreading to other areas also in the country, which will be fatal for it. Experts who arrived in Japan from several countries are trying to gain control over the remaining plants to avert further disaster. However, the situation seems to be beyond control as some of the nuclear reactors are exposed to heat due to failure of cooling system. Unless, the experts gain control over all the plants, the Japanese people still have the biggest test to face in their lives.
About 1,000 people may have died in the 7.3-magnitude quake which hit Turkey's southeastern province of Van Sunday, an official said.
The magnitude-7.3 quake's epicentre, with a depth of 7.20 km, was initially determined to be at 38.6270 degrees north latitude and 43.5349 degrees east longitude, the US Geological Survey said.
"The toll from this earthquake could be 500 to 1,000," Xinhua quoted Mustafa Erdik, the head of the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute in Istanbul, as saying.
The Turkish earthquake observatory, however, put the quake's magnitute at 7.2 on the Richter scale.
The Kandilli centre originally reported that the earthquake was 6.6 on the Richter scale, but later corrected it to 7.2 on the Richter scale.
The earthquake damaged several buildings in the Van province, but the most serious damage was in the neighbouring town of Ercis. Several strong aftershocks were also reported.
Turky's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to visit the area shortly to assess the situation.
Over 500 search, rescue and health personnel have been sent to Van from nearly 40 provinces, said Prime Ministry's Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD) in a release.
"There are so many dead. Several buildings have collapsed, there is so much destruction," Zulfikar Arapoglu, mayor of Ercis, told NTV television. "We need urgent aid, we need medics."
Turky's deputy prime minister Besir Atalay earlier said that 25 to 30 buildings collapsed in the town of Ercis.
Residents spilled out into the streets in panic as rescue workers struggled to save people believed to be trapped under collapsed buildings, the television footage showed.
Turkish Red Crescent is sending tents, blankets and other aid materials to the quake-hit province despite ongoing aftershocks, according to Anatolia reports.
Some people were trapped under debris of buildings in central Van, it added.
2011/9/21 0:53:25 The toll in the Sikkim earthquake Wednesday went up to 61 as workers continued to feverishly search the affected areas, an official said.
Heavy rains and landslides were hampering rescue work and locals were in a state of shock, he said.
The 6.8-mangitude quake Sunday had rattled large parts of India. It also jolted Nepal, Tibet and Bangladesh.
About 350 people were injured in the temblor, said the official.
About 2,000 people had taken shelter in makeshift relief camps set up by the government in various parts of the state.
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit Sikkim later Wednesday to take stock of the rescue and relief efforts.
Educational institutions remain closed indefinitely. Students from outside Sikkim are moving out of the state for fear of fresh tremors.
People in the worst affected north Sikkim are distraught over the extensive damage to their homes and many passed the nights on pavements.
"We are scared to go inside our house at night and hence are staying in the open...," said Maya Devi, 65, resident of Mangan, the epicentre of the earthquake in north Sikkim.
Road communication between Sikkim and the rest of India has been restored with army soldiers clearing massive landslides on National Highway 31A, the lifeline linking capital Gangtok to Siliguri in West Bengal. (IANS)
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At least 35 people were killed and hundreds injured in India in the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that wreaked havoc in the Sikkim-Nepal border region Sunday, officials said Monday.
The high-intensity quake rocked large parts of northern and eastern India and eastern region of Nepal just after 6 p.m. Sunday. It was followed by two after-shocks.
Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh, in New Delhi, put the casualty figure at 25. However, figures made available officially in Sikkim, West Bengal and Bihar pointed to the higher toll.
Sikkim, the epicentre of the quake, was the worst-affected, accounting for 23 deaths with the figure likely to go up, according to officials. Six people were killed in the northern districts of West Bengal and another six in Bihar, reports said.
In Nepal, which experienced its biggest quake in 80 years, nine people had died as per latest reports.
Neighbouring Tibet reported seven deaths in Sunday's quake.
An early morning mild quake in Maharashtra triggered more fears, though it was of 3.9 magnitude only.
Sikkim was cut-off from the rest of the country due to landslides triggered by the quake which blocked national highway 31-A at eight places, said G. Anandan, district magistrate, Sikkim East.
As many as 25 concrete bridges were damaged between West Bengal's Siliguri and Gangtok on the 120-km stretch of national highway 31-A, he said. Five National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams were unable to reach Sikkim due to the landslides.
About 10 army combat engineer columns were rushed with equipment for opening the blocked road between Siliguri and Gangtok. The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) was also mobilised for restoring normal traffic on NH-31A.
About 50 army columns -- comprising medical teams, engineer detachments and relief units -- in small teams were deployed across Sikkim -- where over 200 people have been injured, and at Siliguri and Binaguri towns in West Bengal.
The Sikkim secretariat building in Gangtok also developed cracks.
In neighbouring West Bengal, two people died in Siliguri, three in Darjeeling and one in Jalpaiguri district, police said.
Many patients in a nursing home in Siliguri were also injured, North Bengal Affairs Minister Gautam Deb said late Sunday. The injured figure is said to be over 200.
Power supply was disrupted in areas near Sikkim -- at Kalimpong, adjoining Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar districts. A sub-station was damaged in Siliguri but the supply was restored late Sunday.
"Most of the north Bengal areas, including Darjeeling, were lashed by heavy rains that continued through Sunday night. The situation deteriorated with landslides in Kalimpong and Kurseong (in Darjeeling)," Deb said.
In Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announced Rs.1.5 lakh compensation for the kin of each of the six deceased.
A seven-year-old girl died at Harnaut in Nalanda in a wall collapse while a man died in Darbhanga and another in Bhagalpur when they fell down while running for safety during the earthquake.
Two people died in Nawada and another person in Patna.
In Nepal, which was hit in the eastern region and capital city Kathmandu, over 100 people were injured with hundreds of houses and buildings collapsing.
Three people died in a wall collapse in capital Kathmandu while over 50 were injured trying to jump from windows and balconies in panic.
The nine-foot-wall fencing the compound of the British Embassy in Kathmandu, close to the Indian Embassy, collapsed, smashing down on a two-wheeler, a car and a pedestrian. (IANS)
2011/9/21 0:59:29 Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Tuesday expressed grief over the deaths due to the earthquake that hit eastern and northern India, Nepal and Tibet, and donated Rs.500,000 for relief work in Sikkim.
In a letter to Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling, the Nobel laureate said: "I was saddened to learn about the loss of life and damage to property... I offer my sympathy and condolences to all those families who have been directly affected by what I understand is one of the worst earthquakes in recent memory."
He donated Rs.500,000 from the Dalai Lama Trust towards relief work in the affected areas of Sikkim, the Dalai Lama's office said here.
At least 68 people in India died in Sunday's 6.8 magnitude earthquake, which had its epicentre on the Sikkim-Nepal border. (IANS)
At least 14 people were killed and at least 160 injured Sunday as a 6.8 intensity earthquake ravaged the Sikkim-Nepal border region, jolting large parts of India, Bangladesh and Nepal and causing widespread panic.
Tens of thousands scurried out of their homes just after 6 p.m. in numerous cities, including New Delhi, following the powerful tremor that was quickly followed by two major aftershocks.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said the epicentre of the quake was on the Sikkim-Nepal border.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh immediately convened a meeting of the National Disaster Management Authority. The Indian Army was put on alert for deployment in Sikkim.
In no time, the Indian Air Force flew five cargo planes with relief material and rescue personnel for deployment in Sikkim and West Bengal, which accounted for nine deaths.
Five people have been killed and around 60 injured, Sikkim Chief Secretary Karma Gyatso said, adding the toll could go up as reports from various villages were still pouring in.
One of the dead was a child, officials in Gangtok said. Another was Sandipan Banerjee, an official with a pharmaceutical company who died when a house collapsed in Rangpo, 40 km from Gangtok.
Another man died when his vehicle was trapped in a massive mudslide on the outskirts of Gangtok.
The worst, officials said, was feared in the Sikkim-Nepal border region, where mudslides had blockaded roads.
Gyatso said army and paramilitary personnel were engaged in rescue and relief efforts in the affected areas.
The quake also damaged some Indian Army bunkers in eastern Sikkim near Nathu-La pass along the India-China border and left many soldiers injured, said sources.
Helicopters were deployed to evacuate the soldiers, said sources adding that on-ground army installations were intact. The required soldier strength in the sensitive area was in place, they said.
Meanwhile, National Highway 31-A, Sikkim's only road link to the rest of India, was blocked due to landslides in West Bengal's Darjeeling district.
Four people were killed, at least 100 injured and power supply was disrupted in parts of northern West Bengal. Many buildings developed cracks.
North Bengal Affairs Minister Gautam Deb said the deaths were reported from Siliguri in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri district, while police reported two deaths, one each in Kalimpong and Kurseong hill sub-divisions of Darjeeling.
"One person died in Siliguri. Another died in Jalpaiguri district," Deb told IANS over phone.
The quake triggered landslides in Kalimpong and Kurseong hill sub-divisions while several patients in a nursing home in Siliguri sub-division of Darjeeling district were injured, he said.
In New Delhi, Cabinet Secretary Ajit Kumar Seth told TimesNow: "As time passes, we will get more information... Everyone is helping out."
At least five people were killed in Nepal, three of them in Kathmandu alone, triggering panic and chaos all across the Himalayan kingdom, news reports said.
A wall of the British embassy in Kathmandu, located in the Lainchaur area close to the Indian embassy, collapsed after the quake, smashing a car and killing three people inside.
Dozens were injured as houses crashed across the mountainous country, snapping power supply and communication lines.
Across India, buildings shook triggering panic almost all over northern and eastern India, including Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and Mizoram.
In Assam's major city Guwahati, people ran out of their homes.
Power supply was disrupted in parts of northern West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said in Kolkata.
"In no time all the people in my neighbourhood were out of their apartments," said Anjani Kumari, who lives on Boring Road in Patna, Bihar.
The experience was particularly frightening for those in high rises.
"I was watching TV and for a few seconds thought my head was spinning. When I realised it was an earthquake, I ran out," said Meenakshi Sinha, who lives on the seventh floor of an apartment complex in Noida.
She said the tremors lasted 30 to 40 seconds.
Lucknow resident Vijay Dutt told IANS: "There were strong tremors. In our building, everybody rushed out fearing the worst. The furniture shook and windows rattled. It was scary," he added.
In Tripura, officials said the quake was also felt in neighbouring Bangladesh.
This is the fourth earthquake to hit India this month.
An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter Scale had shaken north India Sep 7 at around with its epicentre near Sonepat in Haryana, 65 km from New Delhi. (IANS)
An earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter Scale shook Maharashtra early Monday, barely 12 hours after a powerful quake jolted northern and eastern India, an official said.
Tremors shook some parts of Maharashtra early Monday, barely 12 hours after the earthquake that rocked northern and eastern India, an official said.
An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale hit Gujarat state Thursday night, the Seismology department said. There were no immediate reports of casualty or damage to property.
An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale jolted Japan's Hokkaido island Friday, Xinhua reported.
The toll in the Sikkim earthquake Wednesday went up to 61 as workers continued to feverishly search the affected areas, an official said.
We are aware that power star Pawan Kalyan, before marrying Renu Desai has divorced his first wife Nandita. The latest buzz is that, Pawan-Desai’s marital life is on rocks and they are heading for a divorce. Renu is currently staying with her parents Pune since last few months. However, we don’t confirm this news because still there is official word from anyone. Hope they will make a patch-up soon and live together forever.
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Tuesday expressed grief over the deaths due to the earthquake that hit eastern and northern India, Nepal and Tibet, and donated Rs.500,000 for relief work in Sikkim.
