Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2076 science Earthquakes & Volcanoes en-us Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:45:11 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2076 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091105/wl_asia_afp/taiwanquake afp/20091105/taiwanquake AFP world Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:45:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091105/wl_asia_afp/taiwanquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091105/capt.photo_1257432255329-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=oqx_lOYXLj4U1QhLXoy9qA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A Taiwanese scientist points to a seismograph indicating an earthquake in Taipei. A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit central Taiwan with initial reports stating that one person had suffered minor injuries.(AFP/Sam Yeh)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit central Taiwan on Thursday, the government said, with initial reports stating that one person had suffered minor injuries.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091105/wl_asia_afp/taiwanquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091105/capt.photo_1257432255329-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=oqx_lOYXLj4U1QhLXoy9qA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Taiwanese scientist points to a seismograph indicating an earthquake in Taipei. A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit central Taiwan with initial reports stating that one person had suffered minor injuries.(AFP/Sam Yeh)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/20091105/wl_oneworld/world3678861257395287 oneworld/20091105/world3678861257395287 OneWorld.net world Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:27:36 GMT OneWorld.net - JAKARTA, Nov 4 (IRIN) - Thousands of survivors of an earthquake that devastated Indonesia's West Sumatra Province are still grappling with a lack of clean water and adequate sanitation more than a month after the disaster, relief workers say. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091104/sc_livescience/recentmidwestquakescalledaftershocksfrom1800s livescience/20091104/recentmidwestquakescalledaftershocksfrom1800s LiveScience.com science Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:17:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091104/sc_livescience/recentmidwestquakescalledaftershocksfrom1800s"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091104/capt.photo_1257313674986-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=dciZfjr03jg_tzTfY73hCA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="File picture of a seismograph. A 4.9-scale earthquake struck the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas early Wednesday injuring at least 209 people, according to the official news agency Irna(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)" border="0" /></a>LiveScience.com - The small earthquakes that sporadically rattle the central United States may actually be aftershocks from a few extremely large quakes that occurred in the region almost 200 years ago, according to a new study</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091104/sc_livescience/recentmidwestquakescalledaftershocksfrom1800s"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091104/capt.photo_1257313674986-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=dciZfjr03jg_tzTfY73hCA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="File picture of a seismograph. A 4.9-scale earthquake struck the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas early Wednesday injuring at least 209 people, according to the official news agency Irna(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (LiveScience.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_earthquake ap/20091104/ml_iran_earthquake AP world Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:58:50 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_earthquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.fcf8ed14eae74cff80fbc865266e8f9d.iran_earthquake_gfx854.jpg?x=115&y=130&q=85&sig=j0Y0J1fTZcJRzeo9fLHvAw--" align="left" height="130" width="115" alt="Map locates Bandar Abbas, Iran, where an earthquake injured hundreds" border="0" /></a>AP - An earthquake struck a key port city in southern Iran early Wednesday, injuring at least 700 people and cutting power and telephone lines, the state news agency reported.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_earthquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.fcf8ed14eae74cff80fbc865266e8f9d.iran_earthquake_gfx854.jpg?x=115&y=130&q=85&sig=j0Y0J1fTZcJRzeo9fLHvAw--" align="left" height="130" width="115" alt="photo" title="Map locates Bandar Abbas, Iran, where an earthquake injured hundreds" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091104/ts_alt_afp/usquake_20091104151031 afp/20091104/usquake AFP us Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:54:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091104/ts_alt_afp/usquake_20091104151031"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091104/capt.photo_1257346449703-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=nj_pwj5O2jtsEV3FLI8Ajg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="The western US state of Oregon was rattled early Wednesday by a pair of earthquakes, the US Geological Survey said. The first temblor off Oregon's coast struck at 1238 GMT and measured 5.0 on the moment magnitude scale, followed 30 seconds later by a quake measuring 5.3.(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The western US state of Oregon was rattled early Wednesday by a pair of earthquakes, the US Geological Survey said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091104/ts_alt_afp/usquake_20091104151031"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091104/capt.photo_1257346449703-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=nj_pwj5O2jtsEV3FLI8Ajg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="The western US state of Oregon was rattled early Wednesday by a pair of earthquakes, the US Geological Survey said. The first temblor off Oregon's coast struck at 1238 GMT and measured 5.0 on the moment magnitude scale, followed 30 seconds later by a quake measuring 5.3.(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091104/wl_nm/us_iran_quake nm/20091104/us_iran_quake Reuters world Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:22:04 GMT Reuters - An earthquake hit Iran's southern province of Hormozgan on Wednesday, injuring 269 people, the official news agency IRNA reported. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091104/wl_mideast_afp/iranquake afp/20091104/iranquake AFP world Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:48:13 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091104/wl_mideast_afp/iranquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091104/capt.photo_1257313674986-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=dciZfjr03jg_tzTfY73hCA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="File picture of a seismograph. A 4.9-scale earthquake struck the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas early Wednesday injuring at least 209 people, according to the official news agency Irna(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A 4.9-scale earthquake struck the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas early Wednesday injuring at least 209 people, according to the official news agency Irna.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091104/wl_mideast_afp/iranquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091104/capt.photo_1257313674986-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=dciZfjr03jg_tzTfY73hCA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="File picture of a seismograph. A 4.9-scale earthquake struck the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas early Wednesday injuring at least 209 people, according to the official news agency Irna(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091103/wl_nm/us_quake_greece nm/20091103/us_quake_greece Reuters world Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:47:57 GMT Reuters - A magnitude 5.9 quake struck off Greece on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_re_us/us_border_earthquakes ap/20091102/us_border_earthquakes AP us Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:47:58 GMT AP - A magnitude-4.0 earthquake has shaken part of the southeastern California region bordering Baja California. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091102/wl_africa_afp/algeriaquake afp/20091102/algeriaquake AFP world Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:51:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091102/wl_africa_afp/algeriaquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091102/capt.photo_1257159038753-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=EspCdXZ3ImzsYHNtkkvCQQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A seismograph reading. An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the open-ended Richter scale has hit the Ain Defla region, about 150 kilometres west of Algiers.(AFP/DDP/File/Nigel Treblin)" border="0" /></a>AFP - An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the open-ended Richter scale hit the Ain Defla region, about 150 kilometres west of Algiers, Monday, seismologists said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091102/wl_africa_afp/algeriaquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091102/capt.photo_1257159038753-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=EspCdXZ3ImzsYHNtkkvCQQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A seismograph reading. An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the open-ended Richter scale has hit the Ain Defla region, about 150 kilometres west of Algiers.(AFP/DDP/File/Nigel Treblin)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091102/wl_asia_afp/chinaquake_20091102073059 afp/20091102/chinaquake AFP world Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:30:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091102/wl_asia_afp/chinaquake_20091102073059"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091102/capt.photo_1257146987945-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=jdVhnjEpuOVQaWo7.m1YSw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A seismologist looks at data showing an earthquake. A moderate earthquake hit southwest China Monday, injuring 28 people, toppling more than 1,000 houses, and killing hundreds of livestock, local authorities reported.(DDP/AFP/File/Nigel Treblin)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A moderate earthquake hit southwest China Monday, injuring 28 people, toppling more than 1,000 houses, and killing hundreds of livestock, local authorities reported.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091102/wl_asia_afp/chinaquake_20091102073059"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091102/capt.photo_1257146987945-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=jdVhnjEpuOVQaWo7.m1YSw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A seismologist looks at data showing an earthquake. A moderate earthquake hit southwest China Monday, injuring 28 people, toppling more than 1,000 houses, and killing hundreds of livestock, local authorities reported.(DDP/AFP/File/Nigel Treblin)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091030/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_earthquake ap/20091030/as_japan_earthquake AP world Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:42:31 GMT AP - A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit off Japan's southern coast Friday, according to Japan's Meteorological Agency. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091030/ap_on_re_us/us_pacific_earthquake_donations ap/20091030/us_pacific_earthquake_donations AP us Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:52:13 GMT AP - Close to $300,000 in financial donations have been received in American Samoa in the month following a tsunami that claimed 34 lives in the U.S. territory. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanquake afp/20091029/pakistanquake AFP world Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:36:22 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091029/capt.photo_1256841343582-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=.GkAgfyxWLBawswaeoRJxg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A quake reading on a seismograph. A 6.1 magnitude earthquake jolted several Pakistani cities late Thursday, but there were no reports of casualties or damage, officials said.(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A 6.1 magnitude earthquake jolted several Pakistani cities late Thursday, but there were no reports of casualties or damage, officials said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091029/capt.photo_1256841343582-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=.GkAgfyxWLBawswaeoRJxg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A quake reading on a seismograph. A 6.1 magnitude earthquake jolted several Pakistani cities late Thursday, but there were no reports of casualties or damage, officials said.(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_afghan_earthquake ap/20091029/as_pakistan_afghan_earthquake AP world Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:34:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_afghan_earthquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091029/capt.photo_1256841343582-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=.GkAgfyxWLBawswaeoRJxg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A quake reading on a seismograph. A 6.1 magnitude earthquake jolted several Pakistani cities late Thursday, but there were no reports of casualties or damage, officials said.(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)" border="0" /></a>AP - A strong earthquake hit Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains Thursday, shaking large areas of the country and neighboring Pakistan, officials said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_afghan_earthquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091029/capt.photo_1256841343582-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=.GkAgfyxWLBawswaeoRJxg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A quake reading on a seismograph. A 6.1 magnitude earthquake jolted several Pakistani cities late Thursday, but there were no reports of casualties or damage, officials said.(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_on_re_us/us_bay_bridge_closure ap/20091029/us_bay_bridge_closure AP us Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:38:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_on_re_us/us_bay_bridge_closure"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091028/capt.e714a0db3a754c21a0c01713d113c369.bay_bridge_closure_cams108.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=Lq4oC5x7dbYCekiaHuzXWA--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Traffic is seen at a standstill near the intersection of highway 80 and the Bay Bridge in Emeryville, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has been closed indefinitely after a rod installed during last month's emergency repairs snapped, causing a traffic nightmare for the 280,000 motorists who cross the landmark span every day.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)" border="0" /></a>AP - Engineers desperately tried to repair and fortify the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Thursday after a 5,000-pound piece of steel plummeted onto the span during rush hour this week.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_on_re_us/us_bay_bridge_closure"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091028/capt.e714a0db3a754c21a0c01713d113c369.bay_bridge_closure_cams108.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=Lq4oC5x7dbYCekiaHuzXWA--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="Traffic is seen at a standstill near the intersection of highway 80 and the Bay Bridge in Emeryville, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has been closed indefinitely after a rod installed during last month's emergency repairs snapped, causing a traffic nightmare for the 280,000 motorists who cross the landmark span every day.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20091028/ts_pew/154ifitsanaturaldisasteritleads pew/20091028/154ifitsanaturaldisasteritleads Pew topstories Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - The media love natural disasters, and nowhere is this truer than in the sector where the damage from a flood or earthquake can be shown in all its horror: network television news. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091027/ap_on_re_us/us_los_alamos_quake_danger ap/20091027/us_los_alamos_quake_danger AP us Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:13:36 GMT AP - An independent safety oversight board is warning that a major earthquake could cause a catastrophic fire triggering a massive radiation leak at the main plutonium laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_re_as/as_indonesia_earthquake ap/20091025/as_indonesia_earthquake AP world Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:47:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_re_as/as_indonesia_earthquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091024/capt.af201def2d0e4279a4b4ed8023a6aaaa.indonesia_quake_gfx750.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=a2BjprwAW3awtM_B6yL6Pw--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="Map locates magnitude-7.0 earthquake 225 miles south of Ambon, Indonesia, centered in the Banda Sea Saturday" border="0" /></a>AP - A powerful earthquake struck deep under the sea in eastern Indonesia, causing panic and sending residents running out of their homes, officials and witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_re_as/as_indonesia_earthquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091024/capt.af201def2d0e4279a4b4ed8023a6aaaa.indonesia_quake_gfx750.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=a2BjprwAW3awtM_B6yL6Pw--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="photo" title="Map locates magnitude-7.0 earthquake 225 miles south of Ambon, Indonesia, centered in the Banda Sea Saturday" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091024/india_nm/india434100 nm/20091024/india434100 Reuters world Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:19:24 GMT Reuters - Indonesia briefly issued a tsunami warning on Saturday after a powerful earthquake struck the eastern part of the country, but the meteorology agency later lifted the alert.