A 7.0-magnitude earthquake has struck a remote Amazon region of Peru, shaking office buildings far away in the capital and in neighbouring Brazil although no injuries or damage were reported immediately.
The New Zealand Civil Defence acknowledges there were mixed messages with this morning's tsunami warning following this morning's 7.6 magnitude earthquake off the Kermadec Islands.
The man's body lay face down, his white dress shirt shining like wax in the sun, as he was unearthed in the ruins of a Port-au-Prince restaurant a year after the earthquake.
On Otago Regional Council earthquake maps, areas of liquefaction spread across the province like old-fashioned ink blots.
The Christchurch earthquake has raised the obvious question of whether Dunedin is likely to be similarly struck, and how prepared the city is to cope. Mark Price and Kim Dungey report.
Dunedin has a reasonably large number of unreinforced masonry buildings typical of those that failed in the Canterbury earthquake.
Collapsed buildings, landslips and disrupted services would face Dunedin people in a large earthquake.
The only earthquake to cause significant damage in Dunedin occurred on April 9, 1974.
Fiordland has been shaken by a magnitude 4.6 quake this morning.
South Westland was shaken by a 4.1 magnitude quake this morning.
Hawke's Bay and Gisborne have been shaken by two earthquakes minutes apart this morning.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 has rattled northern Japan.
Residents of a northern town in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu ran into the streets Friday as a powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake shook the area, police said.
Too busy for Facebook, let alone Twitter? Tracey Barnett has second thoughts.
Chile's government has raised the number of confirmed deaths from the February 27 earthquake and tsunami to 486. A report last week listed 432 dead.
A 7.8 earthquake shook Indonesia's northwest island of Sumatra early today, prompting a brief tsunami warning and sending residents rushing for higher ground. There were no immediate reports of widespread damage.
New Zealand is giving half a million dollars towards efforts to help Chile recover from Saturday's earthquake.
The 40 retirees enjoying summer vacation at a seaside campground nestled under pine trees knew they had to move fast after Chile's powerful earthquake struck. They didn't make it.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade this afternoon confirmed 230 New Zealanders were safe while another 40 remained unaccounted for following the weekend's devastating earthquake in Chile, that has so far left more than 700 dead.
The largest earthquake ever recorded in the area rocked Haiti today, collapsing a hospital where people screamed for help and damaging other buildings.
