#Earthquake

Cyprus has sent €92,000 to Unicef and the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (Unocha) as humanitarian aid to the people affected by the earthquake in Vanuatu, in December 2024. ...

Southern Japan was hit by a strong earthquake on Monday that authorities said did not warrant the kind of megaquake warning that was triggered for the first time last year. ...

A strong earthquake struck the foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet’s holiest cities on Tuesday, killing at least 126 people and flattening hundreds of houses, Chinese authorities said. ...

An earthquake of magnitude 7.4 struck Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila on Tuesday, damaging buildings and cars with at least one person reported killed. Vanuatu state broadcaster VBTC showed footage of ...

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Sulawesi, Indonesia, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 40 km (25 miles), EMSC said.

Following a series of minor earthquakes in Cyprus, including the latest on Thursday night, Civil Defence on Friday issued comprehensive guidelines for earthquake preparedness and safety. In a statement, it ...

A large magnitude 7 earthquake hit off a sparsely populated stretch of northern California coast on Thursday, prompting coastal towns to evacuate low-lying areas amid a tsunami warning that was later ...

An earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale hit the sea area between Cyprus and Turkey at 11.09am on Wednesday. Cyprus’ geological survey department said the quake, felt in Cyprus, occurred ...

The collapse of the Isias hotel in the southeastern Turkish city of Adiyaman, which killed 35 Cypriots, was “a murder woven with greed and immorality”, Rusen Karakaya, the mother of one ...

An earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale was reported on Monday night off Limassol and was felt across the island. The Geological Survey Department said the quake struck at 11.23pm ...

An earthquake measuring five on the Richter scale hit off the coast of Cyprus on Friday evening. According to Turkey’s disaster and emergency management directorate (Afad), the earthquake occurred ...

The trial of the 11 people held responsible for the deaths of 24 Cypriot children, 11 Cypriot adults, and 37 others when the hotel in which they were staying collapsed “has turned into a ...

The Isias hotel in the southeastern Turkish city of Adiyaman, which collapsed during earthquakes in February last year killing 24 Cypriot children, 11 Cypriot adults, and 37 others, “would not have collapsed” if ...

Rusen Karakaya, whose daughter Selin was one of the 24 Cypriot children killed when the Isias hotel in the southeastern Turkish city of Adiyaman collapsed during the earthquakes which hit the ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 struck eastern Turkey’s Malatya province on Wednesday, the country’s disaster and emergency management authority (AFAD) said, adding that there were no immediate ...

Mehmet Tulek, whose daughter Asya was one of the 24 Cypriot children who were killed when the Isias hotel in the southeastern Turkish city of Adiyaman collapsed during last year’s ...

A 4.3 Richter earthquake was reported overnight in the seas off Paphos. According to the EuroMediterranean Seismological Center, the earthquake occurred at 2.18 on Sunday morning with an epicenter 47km southwest of ...

New samples were taken from the wreckage of the Isias hotel in the Turkish city of Adiyaman, where 35 Cypriots and 37 others were killed during last year’s earthquakes, as scientific ...

State services caution against panic following Paphos quakeBy Iole Damaskinos and Jonathan Shkurko An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale struck the Paphos sea area overnight, according to announcements on ...

Concerns were raised on Tuesday over the continued use of portacabins as makeshift classrooms in the north’s schools. Cyprus Turkish teachers’ trade union (Ktos) leader Burak Mavis insisted after ...

An earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale occurred in Famagusta in the early hours of Friday morning. According to the north’s met office, the earthquake took place around 19 kilometres ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 hit southwestern Japan on Thursday, triggering tsunami advisories, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said, but there were no immediate signs of major damage. There ...

A 4.1 Richter earthquake was felt in Cyprus on Friday morning, the European Seismological Centre said. According to the centre, the earthquake registered at 7.34am, and was felt in Limassol. In ...

The families of the 24 Cypriot children who were killed when the Isias hotel in the Turkish city of Adiyaman collapsed travelled to Turkey on Tuesday ahead of the resumption of ...