As many as 100 people are feared dead in an earthquake and landslide that buried more than 20 houses in northern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said.

Rescuers have so far pulled two women's bodies

Rescue teams were on Tuesday struggling to free up to 70 villagers believed to be trapped after a double earthquake destroyed homes in northern Afghanistan, officials said.

At least three bodies have

A low intensity earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter Scale shook the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir in the wee hours on Monday, an official said here.

"Earthquake of 4.3 magnitude (on Richter

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

Panicked people rushed into the streets when a powerful earthquake shook northern Italy early on Sunday, killing three people and injuring at least 50, emergency services said.

The 5.9-magnitude quak

Japan was hit by two shallow earthquakes in the space of just eight minutes on Sunday, one of them measuring a strong 6.2-magnitude, but there were no reports of damage and no tsunami alert.

The 6.2-

An earthquake of slight intensity struck Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday night.

The quake, measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale, occurred at 11.36 pm, a Met office statement said.

A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake on Saturday struck off the Pacific nation of Tonga, US seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning was issued.

The quake

A moderate earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale jolted the Nicobar islands on Wednesday afternoon, an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official here said.

The temblor struck at 1.12 p.m

A moderate 5.9-magnitude quake struck Indonesia's Sunda Strait early on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage.

The qua