Earthquake

After the earthquake in Morocco, it took around eight hours before assistance arrived in the hamlet of Ardouz, one of many little mountain communities whose isolation is both alluring and horribly dangerous. Nearly a week after...

Three days after the country’s largest earthquake on record, rescuers in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains faced a race against time to extract any survivors from the ruins of destroyed villages. According to official data revised late on...

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...

According to the US Geological Survey, a strong 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck northern Papua New Guinea early on Monday. The temblor happened just after 4:00 am local time, 62 kilometers (or miles) beneath the surface, 97 kilometers...

Following the devastating earthquake in February, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that there would be no poll delays and that the vote would take place on May 14. “(Turkish) people will do what is...

Since the disaster on February 6 that affected Turkey and Syria, fears of a further large earthquake have returned to Istanbul, but a renowned Turkish seismologist has reassured residents that the danger “hasn’t increased.” “The risk...

The United Nations made a $1 billion appeal on Friday as the dead toll from the earthquake that has ravaged areas of Turkey and Syria reached 41,000. A 17-year-old girl and a lady in her 20s...

With the guidance of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh extends its hand of compassion by delivering a humanitarian aid package to Syria via a special flight of the Bangladesh Air Force C-130J. Upon arrival at the...

On Saturday, a small amount of foreign help was making its way into sections of Turkey and Syria as rescuers labored to extricate kids from the wreckage in regions devastated by a powerful earthquake that has...