Quake hits Taiwan

An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted Tibet in southwest China Wednesday, the China Earthquake Networks Centre said. The epicentre of the temblor, which hit Tibet's Nyima county at 6.54 p.m. Wednesday, had a depth of 10 km,

A 4.8-magnitude earthquake jolted a city in southwest China's Sichuan Province today, leaving 61 people injured, six days after a strong quake in the same province had killed nearly 200 people. More than 29,000 houses have been damaged and nearly ...

Company supplies DMR portable radios, repeaters and dispatching system to earthquake hit area Hytera has been supply emergency communications support in China following the 7.0-magnitude earthquake, which struck Ya'an, Sichuan province on 20 April ...

Chengdu. Death toll has risen to 186 in the earthquake in southwest China's Sichuan Province, according to latest statistics gathered by the provincial emergency response command centre, Xinhua reported. Twenty-one people are reported missing, and ...

A powerful earthquake jolted China's Sichuan province Saturday near where a devastating quake struck five years ago, leaving at least 12 dead and more than 100 injured and prompting state media to warn the casualty toll could climb sharply. The ...

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THE area of southwestern China struck by a violent tremor on Saturday has witnessed some of the world's deadliest earthquakes. The area sits on the boundary between two of the earth's tectonic plates, the Indian and Asian plates, which are ...

A massive earthquake hit China's southwestern Sichuan on Saturday morning, killing at least 76 people and injuring thousands, the China Earthquake Networks Centre (CENC) said. The 6.6 magnitude quake caused widespread damage, flattening buildings, ...

Written by IRIN Fending off a list of disasters China, which annually faces almost every disaster possible - including earthquakes, floods, cyclones and landslides - is doing something right in the field of disaster risk reduction, experts say. A ...