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When a magnitude 6.9 earthquake shook flood-ravaged northern Papua New Guinea on Monday, authorities claimed that at least five people had died and that an estimated 1,000 homes had been demolished. Disaster teams were flooding into...

Japan will spend an additional $660 million rebuilding areas ravaged by a devastating New Year’s Day earthquake, its prime minister said, taking the total amount of quake relief to $1.7 billion. The magnitude-7.5 earthquake and its...

According to its prime minister, Japan will reconstruct areas devastated by a severe earthquake on New Year’s Day at a cost of $660 million more, bringing the total amount of relief efforts for the earthquake to...

One year after the deadliest earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria’s recent history, the impacts of the catastrophe continue to reverberate for children. For those in Syria, the impact is compounded by the effects of a wider...

100 days after earthquakes struck western Afghanistan, UNICEF is calling for greater support for over 96,000 children affected in the aftermath, as a crippling winter grips the country. Over 1,000 people, most of whom were women...

Authorities focused on resettling thousands of people who had been affected by the disaster, and state media reported that the death toll from China’s biggest earthquake in years had increased to 148 on Friday. At least...

More than 80 tonnes of UNICEF medical supplies arrived in Kabul yesterday, including medicines, medical equipment, as well as midwifery and surgical kits, for children, pregnant women, and families following several devastating earthquakes in Herat, western...

Dhaka was among the cities in Bangladesh that were affected by an earthquake on Monday, October 2. Around 6:45 pm, an earthquake was detected in Bangladesh. Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Bhutan, and China are the affected nations....

The High Atlas Mountains in Morocco became the site of an open-air shelter for earthquake survivors on Saturday, a day after the country’s biggest earthquake in more than six decades claimed more than 2,000 lives and...

A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Central Sulawesi province in central Indonesia on Thursday, according to the country’s meteorology, climatology, and geophysics department. The earthquake struck at 1:14 p.m. Jakarta time (0614 GMT), with...