TEHRAN, December 02 - Roads broke apart, cracks radiated up buildings, and books fell from shelves when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake rocked Anchorage, Alaska and surrounding areas.
TEHRAN, December 01 - An earthquake with a preliminary 7-magnitude shook Alaska on Friday, damaging roads and buildings, and disrupting air traffic in and out of the state's largest city, officials said.
TEHRAN, October 28 - An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 rattled central and eastern Romania early Sunday and was also felt in Ukraine, Moldova and Bulgaria. No significant damage was reported.
TEHRAN, October 23 - An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck Taiwan, the United States Geological Survey said on Tuesday, and witnesses said it set buildings shaking in the capital Taipei.
TEHRAN, October 03 - New research suggests traditional earthquake forecasting models pay too much attention to individual surface faults and not enough attention to the underlying megathrust.
TEHRAN, September 10 - A strong but deep earthquake has struck near New Zealand but didn't immediately cause damage or injuries and a tsunami wasn't expected.
TEHRAN, September 09 - Japanese authorities say 37 people have been confirmed dead from a powerful earthquake that struck the northern island of Hokkaido last week.
TEHRAN, September 07 - Rescue workers with dogs searched for survivors on Friday in debris-strewn landslides caused by an earthquake in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido that killed at least 16 people, officials said, with 26 still missing.
TEHRAN, September 06 - A powerful earthquake rocked Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido early Thursday, triggering landslides that crushed homes, knocking out power and forcing a nuclear power plant to switch to a backup generator.
TEHRAN, August 26 -At least three people have been killed and 243 others wounded after an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale hit western Iran.
TEHRAN, August 22 - A powerful earthquake shook Venezuela's northeastern coast and parts of the Caribbean but likely caused little damage besides knocking out power in some places and toppling supermarket shelves because of its depth, experts said.
TEHRAN, August 11 - An earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok has killed 387 people, authorities said Saturday, adding hundreds of thousands of displaced people were still short of clean water, food and medicine nearly a week on.
TEHRAN, August 6 -Scenes of destruction greeted rescue workers across Indonesia’s resort island of Lombok on Monday, after an earthquake of magnitude 6.9 killed at least 98 people and prompted an exodus of tourists rattled by the second powerful quake in a week.
TEHRAN, August 6 - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi extended condolences to Indonesian nation and government over the devastating earthquake .
TEHRAN, August 5 - Earlier reports said 82 people were killed. At least 91 people were killed after a 6.9-magnituted earthquake struck Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok Sunday.