A major 7.9 earthquake hit the sea area east of the Philippines on Friday and a tsunami warning was issued for the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan and Japan, US seismologists said.

A 7.6 earthquake hit off the Philippine coast on Friday, triggering a tsunami warning for the eastern part of the archipelago and Indonesia, US seismologists said.

The US Geological Survey said the q

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

Dozens of small to moderate earthquakes rattled Southern California on Sunday, shaking an area from rural Imperial County to the San Diego coast and north into the Coachella Valley.

The largest quake

A powerful earthquake measuring up to 7.3 hit off El Salvador's Pacific coast, triggering a brief tsunami alert for Central America and Mexico but causing no injuries or damage.

The warning was later

A moderate intensity earthquake shook parts of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday afternoon.

The earthquake had an intensity of 5 on the richter scale, according to preliminary information release

An earthquake of moderate intensity rocked the entire north eastern region with no injury to people and damage to property.

The earthquake having a magnitude of 5.0 on the Richter scale shook the reg

A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck in the Sea of Okhotsk off the east Russian coast on early Tuesday, US and Japanese monitors said, with the tremor felt as far away as Tokyo.

A moderate intensity earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale hit Kashmir Valley in the wee hours on Tuesday but there was no report of any damage from anywhere.

"Earthquake of magnitude 5.2 oc

Twin earthquakes that devastated rural villages in northwest Iran at the weekend killed a total of 306 people -- most of them women and children -- and injured 3,037, Health minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi said on Monday.