TEHRAN, October 03 - Indonesian President Joko Widodo made a second visit to earth quake -devastated Sulawesi island on Wednesday, saying efforts to help survivors were gearing up and he was keen to see economic activity resume.
TEHRAN, October 02 - Indonesian President Joko Widodo ordered more rescuers to be sent in to find victims of a devastating earth quake and tsunami on Tuesday as the official death toll rose above 1,200 and looting raised fears of growing lawlessness.
TEHRAN, October 01 - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expressed condolences to Indonesia over deaths in recent twin natural disasters, a 7.5 magnitude earth quake and a subsequent tsunami.
TEHRAN, October 01 - Indonesian volunteers dug mass graves for more than 1,000 bodies on Monday after a quake and tsunami devastated swathes of Sulawesi, as authorities -- struggling to deal with the sheer scale of the disaster -- appealed for international help.
TEHRAN, September 30 -The death toll from a devastating earth quake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has soared to 832, the country’s national disaster agency says.
TEHRAN, September 29 - At least 384 people were killed, many swept away by giant waves as they played on the beach, when a major earth quake and tsunami hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, authorities said on Saturday.
TEHRAN, September 29 - At least 30 people have been killed in the bay city of Palu in Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island, a hospital official told Metro TV on Saturday, after the area was hit by strong earth quake s and a tsunami a day earlier.
TEHRAN, July 29 -A powerful earth quake which struck the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok on Sunday killed at least 14 people, injured scores and damaged thousands of homes, officials said.
TEHRAN, March 7 - A magnitude 6.7 earth quake struck Papua New Guinea’s mountainous Southern Highlands on Wednesday killing at least 18 people, an official said, a week after a larger quake flattened villages and killed at least 55 people.
TEHRAN, February 7 -Rescuers combed through the rubble of collapsed buildings on Wednesday, some using their hands as they searched for about 145 people missing after a magnitude 6.4 earth quake struck near the popular Taiwanese tourist city of Hualien overnight.
TEHRAN, January 20 - An earth quake measuring 5 on the Richter scale hit an area near Iran’s western city of Soumar in Kermanshah Province early on Saturday more than two months after a massive temblor killed over 620 people in the province and displaced thousands of others.
TEHRAN, December 1 -An earth quake with a magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale has jolted southeastern Iran near the city of Kerman, the Iranian Seismological Center says.
TEHRAN, October 17 - A powerful earth quake shook the Greek island of Kos early Friday morning, damaging several buildings and the main port, killing at least two people and causing more than 120 injuries, authorities said.
TEHRAN, September 20 - Rescue crews and ordinary citizens searched through rubble for survivors as night fell on Tuesday on battered cities in central Mexico, where the death toll from a major earth quake grew to 216.