Thursday, March 30, 2023

quake jolts

7.0-magnitude quake jolts NZ’s uninhabited island

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake jolted the uninhabited Kermadec Islands, located about 1,000 km northeast of New Zealand's North Island, on Thursday, with a depth of 10 km. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii issued a tsunami warning for coasts...

1 killed as 5.9-magnitude quake jolts Western Nepal

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake jolted the remote mountainous districts in Western Nepal on Tuesday, killing one person and damaging dozens of houses in the region, officials said.The earthquake, with epicentre in the Mela area of Bajura district in Sudurpaschim province,...

5.9-magnitude quake jolts Taiwan

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake jolted Taiwan’s Hualien county on Monday. According to the China Earthquake Networks Centre (CENC), the epicentre of the quake that struck at 9.05 a.m. was monitored at 23.66 degrees north latitude and 121.52 degrees east longitude,...