By Aluta News Oct. 9, 2023 Another 4.9 magnitude earthquake jolted western Afghanistan on Monday as the government’s death toll from Saturday’s quake reached more than 2,000. The new tremors were confirmed by the U.S. Geological Survey and residents in the area. “It was quite intense,” a doctor in theContinue Reading
By Aluta News March 13, 2023 Ankara: The number of people killed by the devastating earthquakes in Turkey’s southeast has reached 48,000, with over 115,000 people injured, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday.“The death toll has reached 48,000 and the number of injured has exceeded 115,000,” Erdogan saidContinue Reading
By Aluta News June 17, 2022 A magnitude–5.1 earthquakes jolted areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan on Friday, triggering panic as people ran out of residential and commercial buildings in fear. The intermittent tremors were felt in several Pakistani cities including those near the country’s border with India, the National DisasterContinue Reading
By Aluta News Mar. 21, 2022 Norway registered its biggest North Sea earthquake in years early on Monday, a tremor registering between magnitude 4.4 and 5.1, 160 kilometres west of its coastline. It was the country’s biggest earthquake since 1989, according to the NORSAR seismological institute, which put the magnitudeContinue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 19, 2021 Another quake has shaken people on the Greek island of Crete and in towns on Turkey’s south-western coast. The 6.1-magnitude quake struck at around 8.30 a.m. (0530 GMT) on Tuesday morning, centred in the sea about 130 kilometres southeast of islands such as CreteContinue Reading
By Aluta News Aug 15, 2021 UN Secretary-General António Guterres has extended his deep condolences to the families of the victims as well as the government and people of Haiti over the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck the country on Saturday. Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, said in aContinue Reading
