All posts tagged "Earthquake"

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Sunday doubled down on her stance that recent earthquakes and eclipses are "signs for those of us who believe" to repent.

Raw Story recently reported that Greene on Friday had issued the stern warning on social media after a magnitude 4.8 earthquake rumbled east coast cities from Philadelphia to Boston and three days before a solar eclipse was slated to cross over the northern hemisphere.

After receiving plenty of flak for that remark, she decided to double down Sunday....

The far-right gets a lot of credit for concocting conspiracy theories linked to the highest level of government, but an earthquake near former President Donald Trump's golf Friday gave Democrats a chance to shine.

Donald Trump’s National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Friday was at the epicenter of a magnitude 4.8 earthquake that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) warned was a message from God to "repent."

This spurred Trump biographer Tim O'Brien to reply, "Does MTG know the earthquake’s epicenter was a 12-minute drive from Trump’s Bedminster, NJ golf course?"...

TAIPEI (AFP) – A major 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan’s east on Wednesday morning, prompting tsunami warnings for the self-ruled island as well as parts of southern Japan and the Philippines.

The quake hit just before 8:00am local time (0000 GMT), with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) putting the epicenter 18 kilometres (11 miles) south of Taiwan’s Hualien City, at a depth of 34.8 km.

Japan’s Meteorological Agency issued a warning for tsunami waves as high as three metres (10 feet) for remote Japanese islands in the region, including Miyakojima island....

When a newborn baby was rescued alive from beneath the rubble in the rebel-held Syrian town of Jandaris after earthquakes devastated Turkey and Syria in 2023, her news made headlines worldwide. Some 60,000 people were killed after two powerful earthquakes with a magnitude of 7.7 and 7.6 shook south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6, 2023. The "miracle baby" born under the rubble was her family's sole survivor. Now nearly a year old, she was named Afraa after her deceased mother. When rescuers pulled the baby, whose fragile body was bruised and covered with dust, from the rubble o......

TOKYO (Reuters) -A massive earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 hit central Japan on Monday, triggering a tsunami warning and advisories for residents to evacuate. A tsunami around 1 metre high struck parts of the coast along the Sea of Japan with a larger wave expected, public broadcaster NHK reported. The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued tsunami warnings for the coastal prefectures of Ishikawa, Niigata and Toyama. Hokuriku Electric Power said it is checking for any irregularities at its nuclear power plants, NHK reported. A spokesperson for Kansai Electric Power said there we......

By Liz Lee, Qiaoyi Li and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) -A magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck one of China's poorest regions just before midnight on Monday, killing at least 126 people, injuring hundreds and bringing down mud houses in remote villages that never stood a chance. Chinese state media arriving at the sixth commune of Dahe village, one of the worst-hit areas in China's northwestern Gansu province, found many houses were either at risk of collapse, or had already crumbled to the ground, especially homes built from earth and clay. "I've lived for more than 80 years and had never seen such ......