A number of people were reported to have been injured and others trapped under rubble in the city of l'Aquila and outlying areas from the quake that measured 6.3 on the Richter scale.
On 2/11/2009 5:34:50 PM UTC an earthquake of magnitude 7.2 and depth 20km has struck an moderately populated area in the Sulawesi Utara Province (population: 2.6 million) in Indonesia.
Thousands of people have been made homeless by an earthquake on Sunday 25 January in remote Qapqal, in China's far western region of Xinjiang near the Kazakh border.
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck off the northern coast of the island of Papua in Indonesia. Hundreds of people had gathered at a football stadium seeking medical aid for minor injuries.
On 7/15/2009 9:22:33 AM, an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 and depth 33km occurred in New Zealand generating a small tsunami with estimated maximum wave height of 0.3 m.
JAKARTA, July 13 (Reuters) - A strong earthquake struck Indonesia's Sumba island, more than 340 km (210) miles east of Bali, on Monday but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, a
