A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Moluccas islands on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, revising down a preliminary reading of 6.8.

The quake struck in the Moluccas Sea, 1

A 5.6 magnitude medium-intensity quake with its epicentre along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border was felt in the Kashmir Valley Thursday.

A 6.4-magnitude undersea earthquake on Monday jolted the sea area off the east coast of Honshu, the main island of Japan, US seismologists said, but no tsunami alert was issued.

The US Geological Su

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake jolted the sea area off the Philippine island of Luzon early on Sunday, US seismologists said.

The US Geological Survey said the quake had a depth of 35 kilometres (22 mile

An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted Hokkaido island of Japan on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.

The temblor occurred at 3.02 p.m. GMT. It had its epicentre, wit

A 6.2-magnitude quake struck off northeast Papua New Guinea on Friday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage.

The quake hit a

Chilean authorities ordered the evacuation of the central coast of Chile on Sunday because of the threat of a tsunami after a 7.1 magnitude quake.

Government spokesman Andres Chadwick said the Office

An earthquake of mild intensity hit the Assam-Nagaland border region on Friday night.

According to the Met department, the earthquake measured 4.4 on the Richter scale. The tremor occurred at 9.15 p

Rescuers assisted by armed forces scrambled to find survivors in quake-hit central Philippines on Tuesday but a series of powerful aftershocks hampered them, as President Ninoy Aquino appealed for cal

An undersea quake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale on Thursday jolted the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, the US Geological Survey said.

The epicentre was at a depth of 23.10 km, and determ