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A magnitude-6.5 earthquake strikes off the southwestern coast of Java island, Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was located about 150 kilometers away from Garut, West Java. At least four people are injured and some buildings are damaged.
2024-04-27

Another magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes Herat Province, Afghanistan, killing four people and injuring more than 150 others, several days after a series of powerful earthquakes killed over 1,000 people in the province.
2023-10-15

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 M L strikes 27 km| east of Rasht, Tajikistan, killing at least five people and destroying at least 20 houses.
2021-07-10

A magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes the island of Java causing massive damage along with two confirmed deaths.
2017-12-15

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, west of the Alaskan Aleutian Island of Attu, in the North Pacific Ocean. No immediate reports of casualties or damage; a tsunami warning was cancelled.
2017-07-18

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake hits the northwestern coast of Nicaragua not far from the Honduran border. "La Prensa" reports the walls of a church collapsed in the city of Chinandega. There are no immediate reports of casualties.
2016-06-9

The U.S. Geological Survey reports a magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes Christchurch in New Zealand. The St. John ambulance service says that several people suffered minor injuries from falls as they ran from the quake but there were no immediate reports of serious damage.
2016-02-14

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck 25 miles (40 kilometers) west of Ovalle in Chile's central region. No injuries or damage have been reported.
2016-02-9

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck southern Taiwan. Taiwan's official Central News Agency reported that 14 people were killed and 484 injured.
2016-02-6

At least 17 people are injured in Peshawar, Pakistan, and five people are hurt in Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit near the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border. The epicenter is in Afghanistan's quake-prone Ishkashim district, a mountainous area where mainly impoverished farmers live in homes made with mud, according to Peshawar District Officer Muhmand Asim Khan. Other details about damage or casualties are not presently available.
2015-12-25