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Haiti earthquake aid workers say all 33 children United States missionaries tried to illegally take from the country have parents.
SOS Children’s Village said all of the children have finally been reunited with their families.
“It has turned out that all of the 33 children have parents. SOS Children’s Villages is convinced that in most cases, the [...]

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck near Los Angeles, awakening residents but causing no apparent damage in America’s second largest city.
Police at the epicentre of Pico Rivera, 18 kilometres south east of downtown Los Angeles, said there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage from the light quake.
It hit at 4:04am local time and [...]

TOKYO — A strong magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit off the eastern coast of Japan on Sunday, rattling buildings across a broad swath of the country, including the crowded capital.
There were no reports of casualties, with only light damage to structures near the epicenter, according to local officials.
The quake hit at 5:08 p.m. and [...]

Authorities in Bolivia have rescued 19 children and teenagers thought to have been kidnapped in Haiti by human trafficking gangs.
A state prosecutor says the children are now being looked after by the Bolivian government and a search is continuing for at least eight others.
The 19 children who are now being looked after in a safe [...]

Oghi (Manshera, Pakistan), Mar.10 (ANI): At least five people were killed here after suspected Islamist militants attacked the office of a U.S.-based Christian aid agency on Wednesday.
Media reports said the gunmen burst into the office of the World Vision agency in Mansehra district, 65 km north of Islamabad, at about 9 a.m. local time.
The town [...]

LONDON: Glamorous and enterprising Indian-origin British journalist Inderdeep Bains has offered a date with herself as a prize to help raise money for victims of the Haiti earthquake.
A chief reporter at the Slough and Windsor Observer, Bains, 26, agreed to being the top prize for the charity drive, with the proviso that male readers donate [...]

New York, Mar 5(ANI): Former US President Bill Clinton has revealed he had no anaesthetic for his recent heart operation at New York’’s Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital.
“I didn’t have any anaesthesia or any sedatives. I just had this stent put in and I asked if I could watch it on the screen while they were fixing me. [...]

* Los Pelambres mine shut after power disruption
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* Resumed operations on Sunday, no major problems expected (Adds details, quotes, background)
LONDON, March 1 (Reuters) – Operations at Antofagasta’s (ANTO.L) flagship Los Pelambres copper mine in Chile resumed operations on Sunday after an earthquake temporarily disrupted power supplies, the firm said on Monday.
“Presently it is not [...]

Guwahati, Sep 9 (ANI): As experts claim that a big earthquake might hit Assam region shortly, locals are rushing to get their houses insured while the authorities are conducting sensitization campaigns as a precautionary measure.

The region was rocked by four earthquakes in past three weeks, including a tremor with 5.9 magnitude, the biggest in [...]

New Delhi, Sep 4 (ANI): A moderate earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale, the biggest in nine years, shook the North-East early on Friday, officials at the Central Seismological Observatory said.

The quake took place at 1:21 a.m. local time and was centered 96 km [...]

Washington, September 3 (ANI): A team of engineers from the Stanford University has designed a new earthquake-resistant structural system for buildings, which will not only help a multi-story building hold itself together during a violent quake, but [...]

Washington, Sep 1 (ANI): The earthquake that jolted Wenchuan, China, in 2008 has had an acute impact on the brain function of physically healthy survivors, and even poses a risk to their mental health, according a new research.

Working with collaborators from universities in China, the US and Liverpool, researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry focussed [...]

London, Aug 31 (ANI): A five-strong group of scientists have developed a new technique that can monitor movements beneath the earth’s surface to help understand how earthquakes behave.

The scientists, led by Andrew Curtis, Professor of Mathematical Geoscience at Edinburgh University, used computers to simulate the motion of one earthquake at the location of another to [...]

Washington, August 29 (ANI): A new research by scientists from the University of Arizona (UA) in Tucson has determined that some slow-moving faults may help protect some regions of Italy and other parts of the world against destructive earthquakes.

Until now, geologists thought when the crack between two pieces of the Earth’s crust was at a [...]

Washington, August 26 (ANI): Scientists have recently tried an innovative “slow motion earthquake” testing that may provide a safer, far less expensive way to learn about how and why full-scale buildings collapse during quakes.

The method was developed by researchers at the University [...]

Karachi, Aug 13 (ANI): Refuting the idea that countries were “after Pakistan” in order to destroy it, a well known political and defence analyst has said that Pakistan had more internal threats than external.

Speaking at the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of [...]

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The U.S. Geological Survey reported on Monday( Time was around 0130 hours of 11th August) that huge earthquake to the magnitude 7.7,was about [...]

Washington, July 28 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have shown that when the magnitude 8 Sichuan earthquake struck southern China in May 2008, more than 23 percent of the pandas’ habitat was destroyed in the area.

The Sichuan region is designated as one of 25 global hotspots for biodiversity conservation.

Home to more than 12,000 species [...]

London, July 11 (ANI): French First lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy gave glimpse of her philanthropist side as she pledged a personal donation of a whopping 43,000 pounds to a hospital treating survivors of earthquake- ravaged town of L’Aquila.

The former model-singer visited the earthquake-hit region a day after the wives of other leaders participating in the [...]

Washington, July 10 (ANI): In what may give earthquake-hit people of L’Aquila in Italy a boost, Hollywood star George Clooney is planning to shoot his next film there.

The actor owns a vacation home on the banks of Lake Como in Italy.

According to reports, he recently visited the devastated Italian city, and thrilled locals with [...]