EARTHQUAKE

Afghanistan's state-run news agency reported a powerful earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region of the country's east, killing 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more.

Moderate shaking was reported near the epicenter of the quake east of Stillmore. The earthquake was reportedly felt as far south as Brunswick, and as far north as Columbia, South Carolina.

Comedian Earthquake fell on hard times while living right beside one of Hollywood’s highest-paid Black actors, Jamie Foxx.

A relatively rare East Coast earthquake centered northeast of South Carolina’s capital city has jolted large numbers of state residents awake.

An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted south-central Alaska on Saturday, officials said. >> Read more trending newsAccording to the Alaska Earthquake Center, the epicenter of the earthquake was 26 miles west of Nikiski across Cook Inlet on the Kenai Peninsula, The Anchorage Daily News reported. Residents from Willow to Anchorage reported feeling the effects of the quake, KTUU-TV reported. The earthquake widely felt in southcentral Alaska this morning was a M5.1 located 26 miles west of Nikiski, but fairly deep at 55 miles. https://t.co/hHjrnok0We — Alaska Earthquake Center (@AKearthquake) March 12, 2022A tsunami was not expected, according to the U.S. Tsunami Warning Center.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.5 struck northern Peru early Sunday, damaging some buildings and blocking several roads with rubble.

ATHENS, Greece — (AP) — A strong earthquake has jolted the Greek island of Crete, three weeks after another temblor killed a man on the island and damaged hundreds of buildings. The Geodynamic Institute in Athens said the earthquake that struck Tuesday morning had a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 and occurred undersea off the eastern coast of the island. There were no immediate reports of damage or injury. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

Volunteers loaded a small aircraft with tons of medical supplies Wednesday evening bound for Haiti Thursday morning.

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake rattles Australia's second largest city, causing damage to buildings.

A U.N. official says tens of thousands of Haitians are still awaiting help more than a month after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the country’s southern region.

A powerful earthquake has struck in southern Mexico near the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, causing buildings to rock and sway in Mexico City hundreds of kilometers away.

Haitians continue to show up at hospitals seeking care for injuries two weeks after an earthquake battered their country.

Haiti's entrenched poverty, insecurity and lack of basic infrastructure are posing huge challenges to helping the victims of a powerful weekend earthquake.

Haitian community leaders and elected officials in Palm Bay and across Florida were working to organize a unified response to a devastating earthquake that brought more misery and death to the Caribbean nation.

Haiti’s civil protection agency says at least 304 people have been killed and 1,800 injured fromr a 7.2 magnitude earthquake striking the poor island nation.

Scientists are excavating one of the most important Jurassic sites ever discovered in the UK.

The magnitude 3.8 earthquake was reported at 2:18 p.m. about 2 miles west of Bloomingdale, Indiana, but reportedly also felt by Chicago-area residents.

A 5.0 earthquake has struck off the southeast coast of the Dominican Republic.

Good evening northern California, M 4.7 earthquake about 11 mi Northwest of Truckee, CA. at 9:35 pm PT. A #ShakeAlert Message was issued by the USGS and alerts were delivered. Send us a screenshot. Hope everyone is safe @Cal_OES @CalConservation pic.twitter.com/wU5pY40X2H

Soldiers inspect the remains of a building damaged in an earthquake, in Petrinja, Croatia, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020. A strong earthquake has hit central Croatia and caused major damage and at least one death in a town southeast of the capital. The European Mediterranean Seismological Center said the magnitude 6.3 quake hit 46 kilometers (28 miles) southeast of Zagreb just before 12:20 p.m. local time. The last strong quake struck in the 1990s when the picturesque Adriatic coast village of Ston was destroyed. The power plant is jointly owned by Slovenia and Croatia and located near their border.

IZMIR – When firefighter Muammer Celik reached a 3-year-old girl trapped for three days under the rubble of a deadly earthquake in a Turkish coastal city, his heart sank. But as Celik extended his arm to wipe her face, the child opened her eyes and grabbed hold of his thumb. It was the second dramatic rescue Monday after a 14-year-old was also pulled out alive. Officials said 147 quake survivors were still hospitalized, and three of them were in serious condition. The tremors were felt across western Turkey, including in Istanbul as well as in the Greek capital of Athens.

Members of rescue services search in the debris of a collapsed building for survivors in Izmir, Turkey, early Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. A strong earthquake struck Friday in the Aegean Sea between the Turkish coast and the Greek island of Samos, killing several people and injuring hundreds amid collapsed buildings and flooding. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)ISTANBUL – A strong earthquake struck Friday in the Aegean Sea between the Turkish coast and the Greek island of Samos, killing at least 19 people and injuring over 700 amid collapsed buildings and flooding, officials said. At least 17 people were killed in Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city, including one who drowned, and 709 were injured, according to Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, or AFAD. Clouds of dust or smoke rose from several spots as buildings collapsed in the quake.

After weeks of bad weather, an Earthquake and other delays, private space startup Astra launched its orbital rocket on the first of three tests from Alaska last week. On Sept. 11, Rocket 3.1 launched from the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Kodiak, Alaska. That triggered a shutdown of the engines by the flight safety system and the rocket broke apart, tumbling back down in a fiery explosion. “I don’t think that’s supposed to happen,” someone says, and then when the explosion can be seen from the launch site, “holy moly!”Culton and her viewing party were worried about the Astra launch operators. Rocket 3.1's orbital launch attempt pic.twitter.com/nm1bDewdl5 — Astra (@Astra) September 12, 2020The next rocket, called 3.2 is ready for Astra’s second orbital launch test, according to the company.

MOUNT CARMEL, Fla. No damage was reported after a weak earthquake occurred Thursday morning along the Alabama-Florida line. The U.S. Geological Survey reported that a magnitude 4.0 quake happened just after 10 a.m. north of Mount Carmel, Florida, mostly a forested area southwest of Brewton, Alabama. The Escambia County Sheriffs Office said it had not received any calls about damage, but some area residents reported feeling the quake in response to a question posed by the area National Weather Service office on its Facebook page. The earthquake occurred more than 6 miles beneath the surface, according to the Geological Survey.

LOS ANGELES – A magnitude 4.2 earthquake gave the Los Angeles region a predawn wake-up call Thursday, triggering local alerts from the state's new quake warning system but resulting in no reports of significant damage. The Los Angeles Fire Department found no damage or injuries in a survey by ground and air units, a standard procedure after earthquakes in the nation's second-largest city. “Good morning Los Angeles. Yes, we felt it too," Los Angeles police tweeted, noting that 911 and other systems were not impacted. Thursday's quakes were “garden variety," according to former USGS seismologist Lucy Jones, who now leads a center focusing on making communities disaster-resilient.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A powerful earthquake off Alaska’s southern coast shook sparsely populated coastal communities late Tuesday and prompted some residents to briefly flee to higher ground because of tsunami fears. There were no immediate reports of damage in the Alaska Peninsula and the tsunami warning was canceled after the magnitude 7.8 quake offshore created a wave of a less than a foot (30 centimeters). The tsunami warning prompted coastal residents to evacuate to higher ground, with social media posts showing long lines of people fleeing towns like Homer and Kodiak as tsunami sirens wailed. Tuesday’s quake was more powerful than the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that caused damage in the Anchorage area in November 2018. More than a dozen aftershocks of magnitude 4.0 or higher were reported immediately after the earthquake, he said from the Alaska Earthquake Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

TONOPAH, Nev. – The cracked main highway between Las Vegas and Reno reopened Friday, 10 hours after a predawn magnitude 6.5 earthquake that a researcher called the largest to strike the remote area of western Nevada in 65 years. Nevada Highway Patrol photos showed cracks on U.S. 95 before crews repaired them about 35 miles (56 kilometers) west of Tonopah. The vast open range east of the snow-capped Sierra Nevada is seismically active, said Graham Kent, director of the Nevada Seismological Lab at the University of Nevada, Reno. The U.S. Geological Survey reported Friday's temblor struck just east of the Sierra Nevada. “”However, we have learned that other than obvious earthquake damage some damage is discovered later."

SAN JUAN – A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck near southern Puerto Rico on Saturday, briefly knocking out power and forcing the relocation of at least 50 families on an island where some people still remain in shelters from previous quakes earlier this year. Most of the damage was reported in Ponce, where officials were still going neighborhood by neighborhood to assess damage as rescue crews fanned out across the region. “The infrastructure is already weak.”Several aftershocks hit Puerto Rico's southern region, including a 4.9-magnitude one. Nerves are already frayed in many parts of the island as Puerto Rico continues to recover from Hurricane Maria, a string of strong earthquakes and the coronavirus. Silvestre Alicea, a 67-year-old man who moved back to Puerto Rico from New York upon retiring, lost his home in January's earthquake and is still living with his sister in Guanica.

The quake was centered 139 kilometers (86 miles) northwest of Montego Bay, Jamaica, and 140 kilometers (87 miles) west-southwest of Niquero, Cuba, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The Cayman Islands were rocked by several of the strong aftershocks that followed in the area, including one measured at magnitude 6.1. In the Cayman Islands, the quake left cracked roads and what appeared to be sewage spilling from cracked mains. There were no reports of injuries or more severe damage, said Kevin Morales, editor-in-chief of the Cayman Compass newspaper. Mexico’s National Seismological Service reported that the quake was felt in five states including as far away as Veracruz, on the country’s Gulf Coast.

GUANICA, PUERTO RICO – Another earthquake has hit the island of Puerto Rico, registering magnitude 5.2 on Wednesday. Scientists at the United States Geologic Survey placed the center of the earthquake west-southwest of the town of Guanica. More than 1,280 earthquakes have hit Puerto Rico’s southern region since Dec. 28, more than two dozen of them magnitude 4.5 or greater, according to the USGS. Among them was a 6.4 magnitude quake that hit on Jan. 7, killing one person and injuring nine others, and a 5.9 magnitude aftershock that occurred Saturday, causing further damage. Scientists say they don’t yet know much about the faults causing the quakes, although some experts believe at least three faults are involved, including the Punta Montalva one in southwest Puerto Rico that students and professors at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez discovered in the early 2000s.

“Deep down, I know there was an element of trying to get a pat on the back,” Albert said. “That’s when they completely blew me away with their response.”What the community leaders essentially told Albert and Zelaya was this: Thanks for your efforts and compassion, but you actually did more harm than good. The experience was such an eye-opener that it led Albert and Zelaya to a greater purpose and mission. “That goes back to the negative aid that is undermining the natural development of the Haitian people,” Albert said. The two discovered that nearly 80% of Haitian teachers haven’t been properly trained, and 60% of kids dropped out of classes during elementary school.

SAN JUAN – A 5.8 magnitude quake hit Puerto Rico before dawn Monday, unleashing small landslides, causing power outages and collapsing some homes, as well as a famed tourist attraction. In the southern town of Guanica, Mayor Santos Seda told The Associated Press that five homes collapsed, but only one of them was inhabited. Previous quakes of lesser magnitudes in recent days have cracked homes and knocked goods off supermarket shelves. He said the quakes overall come as the North American plate and the Caribbean plate squeeze Puerto Rico, and that more earthquakes and aftershocks are expected, although officials expect them to eventually taper off. One of the largest and most damaging earthquakes to hit Puerto Rico occurred in October 1918, when a magnitude 7.3 quake struck near the island’s northwest coast, unleashing a tsunami and killing 116 people.

The death toll from Saturday's 7.8 earthquake in Ecuador rose to at least 480 Tuesday. Teams continue to dig through the rubble and search for missing people. David Begnaud is there.

The strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador since 1979 has left more than 230 dead and several hundred injured after striking 100 miles northwest of the country's capital. Manuel Bojorquez has more.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 hit northern Oklahoma last night. The region has seen a spike in earthquakes recently. Mirreya Villarreal gives us a closer look at the trend.

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Indonesia's easternmost province Papua, though there were no initial reports of injuries. CBSN's Contessa Brewer has more.

Earthquake disaster flick "San Andreas" grossed $53.2 million during its opening weekend despite predictions that people in earthquake-prone areas wouldn't go see it. CBS News correspondent John Blackstone spoke with a seismologist to see what was real in the movie and what was fake.

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the small nation of Nepal nestled in the Himalayan mountain range. According to Charlie D’Agata, tens of thousands of people have been displaced.

Strong earthquake rocks central Japan At least 20 people were injured as a strong earthquake hit the Japanese city of Nagano. The quake caused power outages and triggered a landslide blocking roads. Seth Doane reports.

Major earthquake hits northwest of Anchorage, Alaska A 6.2 magnitude earthquake centered 80 miles northwest of Anchorage struck Thursday. In some areas shaking lasted for at least a minute. Norah O'Donnell reports.

Earthquake in southeastern China kills over 350 At least 381 people were killed Sunday after a major earthquake struck Yunnan Province in southeastern China. Seth Doane reports on the search and rescue efforts.

5.1 magnitude earthquake shakes up Los Angeles People in Los Angeles are assessing the damage done after a 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck 20-miles southeast of the city. There aren’t any reports of major damage, but the earthquake broke water mains and gas lines. Vinita Nair reports.

Calif. earthquake causes more chatter than shatter A 4.4-magnitude earthquake, centered in the Santa Monica mountains, was felt across a 150-mile stretch of southern California. It was the largest quake to hit the Los Angeles area in five years, but it caused no major damage. Ben Tracy reports.