An earthquake authority in Pakistan has received a staggering Rs.2 billion bill for design and consultancy services while it has only Rs.1 billion budgeted this year for its various projects.

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Japan issued a tsunami warning Thursday after a magnitude-6.7 earthquake struck in the northeast of the country, rattling the areas hardest hit by the March 11 quake and tsunami disasters.

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New Zealand offered to buy 5,000 damaged homes in quake-devastated Christchurch on Thursday and said it was assessing whether to purchase another 10,000.

Prime Minister John Key said the offer relate

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Japan on Saturday, seismologists said, rattling one of the areas hardest hit by the March 11 quake and tsunami disasters.

The quake hit at 8:31pm (1131 GMT)

A series of powerful earthquakes, including one of magnitude 6.0, rocked New Zealand's stricken city of Christchurch on Monday causing further damage.

More buildings came down and there was severe di

Face to face with the legions of homeless and the bereaved, President Barack Obama on Sunday toured the apocalyptic landscape left by Missouri's killer tornado, consoled the community and committed th

The death toll from one of the worst tornadoes ever to hit the United States rose to 132 on Friday as crews continued to search the rubble for survivors and victims.

Five days after the massive torna

At least 13 people were killed as a new wave of tornadoes hit the US states of Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas, authorities said.

The new bout of deadly weather came after at least 124 people died and

At least 24 people were killed in Joplin, a southern city of Missouri state, and one person died in Minneapolis city as tornadoes battered parts of the central areas of the US on Sunday, Xinhua report

The Grimsvoetn volcano under Iceland's largest glacier began erupting Saturday, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said, reporting a tall plume of smoke rising from the crater.

"An eruption at Grims