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          The quake, which cut power to more than two million households, was centred off the coast of the Fukushima region at a depth of 60 kilometres. AFP

          Japan issues tsunami alert after 7.3-magnitude earthquake

          AsiaMarch 16, 2022
          Two women embrace at the 10th anniversary memorial service of the Christchurch earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, on February 22, 2021. The 2011 earthquake killed 185 people. NZ Herald via AP

          New Zealand remembers 185 who died in Christchurch earthquake on 10th anniversary of disaster

          February 22, 2021
          Three-year-old Elif Perincek holds on to the thumb her rescuer as she is carried out of a collapsed building in Izmir, Turkey, that collapsed in an earthquake three days earlier. Istanbul Fire Department / AFP

          Two girls rescued from rubble three days after Turkey quake

          EuropeNovember 03, 2020
          Donald Trump is on a four-day state visit to Japan where he will be the first leader to meet the country's new Emperor​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​. Reuters

          US and Japan 'hard at work' negotiating new trade deal, says Trump

          EconomyMay 25, 2019
          A partially exposed 66-million-year-old fish fossil uncovered by Robert DePalma and his colleagues in North Dakota. Robert DePalma / Kansas University / AFP

          Killer asteroid: fossils provide evidence of catastrophic impact

          The AmericasApril 01, 2019
          A picture taken on November 14, 2017 shows a view of the buildings left damaged by a 7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck two days before in the town of Sarpol-e Zahab in Iran's western Kermanshah province. AFP

          Hundreds injured in Iran earthquake

          November 26, 2018
          epa07079819 A nun walks by a Catholic school which was destroyed by the 5.9 earthquake in Gros Morne, Haiti, 08 October 2018. At least 15 people died and 333 were injuried after a 5.9 magnitude earthquake that occurred on the night of 06 October in Haiti followed by several aftershocks causing moments of panic. EPA/ORLANDO BARRIA

          Haiti earthquake death toll rises to 15 while hundreds injured

          The AmericasOctober 09, 2018
          Indonesian Marines search for survivors in Palu, Indonesia's Central Sulawesi, on October 2, 2018. AFP

          Death toll exceeds 1,200 in Indonesia quake-tsunami

          AsiaOctober 04, 2018
          A house sits damaged after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake in Donggala, central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Disaster Management Agency via AP

          Powerful quakes rock Sulawesi in Indonesia, destroying homes

          AsiaSeptember 28, 2018
          Rescue workers search for survivors from a house damaged by a landslide caused by an earthquake in Atsuma town, Hokkaido, Japan, September 6, 2018. Kyodo via Reuters

          At least 7 dead in northern Japan quake

          AsiaSeptember 06, 2018
          South Korean official Ryoo Yong-gyu, director of the Korea earthquake and volcano monitoring division, holds discusses an artificial earthquake caused by a North Korean nuclear test, on September 3, 2017. Lee Jin-man / AP photo

          North Korea's nuclear test site believed to have collapsed

          AsiaApril 26, 2018
          A house sits collapsed following a 7.5 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea. Jerol Wepii / AP

          More than 30 people believed dead in Papua New Guinea earthquake

          February 27, 2018
          An Iranian girl looks through a salvaged mirror from a damaged building in the town of Sarpol-e Zahab in the western Kermanshah province near the border with Iraq, on November 14, 2017, following a 7.3-magnitude earthquake. Atta Kenare / AFP

          Eight earthquakes strike along Iran-Iraq border

          January 11, 2018
          Earthquake survivors carry their belongings in front of damaged buildings, in a compound which was built under the Mehr state-owned program, in Sarpol-e-Zahab in western Iran, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

          Anger in Iran after earthquake flattens Ahmadinejad housing projects

          November 14, 2017
          People gather around a levelled building in the mountainous town of Darbandikhan in Iraqi Kurdistan on November 13, 2017, following a 7.3-magnitude quake that hit the Iraq-Iran border area. Shwan Mohammed / AFP

          Deadliest quake of year causes panic among war-weary Iraqis

          November 14, 2017
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