Summary Earthquake killed more than 1,000 people Sanctions, frozen central bank assets stem funding flow Taliban spokesman says relief effort should be priority KABUL, June 25 – Afghanistan’s Taliban administration on Saturday called on international governments to roll back sanctions and lift a freeze on central bank assets […]
GAYAN, Afghanistan — Villagers rushed to bury the dead Thursday and dug by hand through the rubble of their homes in search of survivors of a powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan that state media reported killed 1,000 people. The Taliban and the international community that fled their takeover struggled to […]
HAVANA — A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck in the Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and eastern Cuba on Tuesday, shaking a vast area from Mexico to Florida and beyond, but there were no reports of casualties or heavy damage. The quake was centered 139 kilometers (86 miles) northwest […]
ISLAMABAD – The death toll from an earthquake in Pakistan on Tuesday has risen to 37, the Mirpur divisional commissioner, Muhammad Tayyab, said on Wednesday. Tayyab said the dead included men, women and children. Reuters Sep 25, 2019 Reporting by Asif Shahzad in Islamabad; Editing by Toby ChopraOur […]
open view news desk JAMMU: Earthquake tremors felt at Jammu. At about 4.45 pm when I was working on compilation of news in my office situated at Shastri Nagar, Jammu, I felt my office chair is shaking and vibrating which puts me slightly in state of panic. I […]
TIRANA – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 and an aftershock only slightly weaker shook the Albanian port town of Durres on Saturday, rocking buildings there and in the capital Tirana and sending residents rushing into the streets and parks for safety. The Defence Ministry said […]
Fairbanks : The Alaska Earthquake Center says a small quake has hit the central part of the state. The centre says the magnitude 3.7 earthquake hit an area 29 kilometers south of Fairbanks, the state’s second-largest city, at 2.39 pm (local time) on Saturday. The earthquake had a depth […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina : The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 has struck off the southern tip of South America. The quake, which hit at 2:54 a.m. local time Monday, was centered in the ocean, 312.9 kilometers (194 miles) south southeast of […]
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