Rescue workers in Nepal began digging through the rubble of collapsed houses with their bare hands on Saturday, searching for survivors after the country’s worst earthquake in eight years killed 157 people and shook buildings as far away as Delhi. The 5.6-magnitude…
Survivors of a series of powerful earthquakes that struck western Afghanistan on Saturday have spent a second night sleeping amid the rubble of demolished villages as they search for loved ones using shovels. The death toll is approaching 3,000, according to senior…
A Welsh firefighter who has been deployed to Morocco has told ITV Wales about the moment an elderly woman was pulled from the rubble five days after a devastating earthquake. The north African country was hit by the disaster on Friday…
Rescuers raced against time on Monday to find survivors in the rubble more than 48 hours after the devastating earthquake in Morocco. Search teams from Spain and Britain were joining efforts to find survivors of the 6.8 magnitude quake that…
An earthquake of 6.3 magnitude followed by dozens of aftershocks has struck the Colombian capital Bogota, according to the United States Geological Survey, prompting frightened residents to flee into the street and leading a woman to fall to her death.…
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck central Japan on Friday, forcing the suspension of bullet train services, but no tsunami warning was issued, authorities said. The quake hit the central Ishikawa region at 2:42 pm (0542 GMT) at a depth of…
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake has rattled much of Pakistan and Afghanistan, sending panicked residents fleeing from homes and offices, and frightening people even in remote villages. At least nine people died in Pakistan and two in Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday…
A huge fire at one of Turkey's main ports has been extinguished, the defence ministry has said. The blaze at Iskenderun, on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, was caused by Monday's earthquakes, which have devastated parts of the country. Hundreds of shipping…
Rescuers are using their bare hands to search for survivors from the devastating earthquake which has now killed more than 5,000 people in Turkey and Syria. The magnitude 7.8 quake toppled entire apartment blocks, wrecked hospitals, and left thousands of people injured or…
A powerful earthquake has struck in south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, killing more than 500 people as they slept and trapping many others. The US Geological Survey said the 7.8 magnitude tremor struck at 04:17 local time (01:17 GMT)…