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Earthquakes

  • Wednesday, 23 April, 2025
    Turkey
    Istanbul shaken by 6.2 magnitude earthquake

    At least 150 people injured two years after quakes in south-west Turkey killed more than 53,000

    People gather on a street in Istanbul. The crowd includes individuals engaged in conversation
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    News in-depthMyanmar
    Myanmar earthquake tests military junta’s grip

    Regime’s aid appeal shows vulnerability after four years of civil war

    Two women in front of a collapsed building in Mandalay, Myanmar on March 30 2025
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    Japanese politics & policy
    Japan warns ‘big one’ earthquake could kill 300,000 people

    New report says a magnitude 9 tremor in the Nankai Trough has potential for damage equivalent to half of annual GDP

    The prow of a ship lies on top of a destroyed house in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture, north-eastern Japan in March 2011
  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    Myanmar
    Earthquake deepens crisis in Myanmar as aid effort intensifies

    Military government has lost control of much of country riven by armed conflict and crime

    A monk walks past damaged houses in Mandalay on Sunday
  • Saturday, 29 March, 2025
    Myanmar earthquake death toll passes 1,600

    USGS warns damage could exceed country’s GDP after 7.7 magnitude tremor

    People look at the collapsed Maha Myat Muni Pagoda following an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar on Friday
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Myanmar
    Powerful earthquake strikes central Myanmar

    7.7-magnitude quake near Mandalay causes deaths hundreds of miles away in Bangkok

    Rescuers stand in front of a pile of rubble and concrete in Bangkok, Thailand on March 28 2025
  • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Syria’s Assad trapped by rebel advance and refusal to compromise

    Rapid capture of Aleppo from government forces underlines regime’s fragility despite Russian and Iranian help

    A masked Islamist rebel holding a rifle and making a victory sign stands in front of a torn poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
  • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Syrian rebels sweep into Aleppo after lightning assault

    Offensive highlights Bashar al-Assad’s weakness as Israel targets regime supporters Iran and Hizbollah

    Rebel fighters pose for a photo in front of Aleppo’s citadel
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Japan
    Japanese prime minister cancels trip over major earthquake warning

    Meteorological agency issues first-ever alert on potential quake

    A collapsed house
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Special ReportThriving Cities
    Helping child earthquake victims rebuild dreams for the future

    A Turkish foundation is looking beyond the provision of ‘psychological first aid’ to give young people career opportunities

    In a classroom with wooden walls, a teacher shows her students a paper with sketches of pottery designs, indicating specific details with her finger. A map of the world titled “Dünyamız” is displayed behind her
  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
    Taiwan
    Taiwan hit by strongest earthquake since 1999

    Nine dead after 7.2 magnitude tremor damages buildings and sparks evacuations at chip plants

    Emergency workers rescue a survivor from a damaged building in New Taipei City on Wednesday
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    Turkey-Syria earthquake
    Container cities: Turkey’s quake zone one year on

    Huge numbers of people still live in temporary shelters despite a state pledge to ‘heal the wounds’ within 12 months

    A woman walks past a flooded street as diggers work to clean the rubble of collapsed buildings in Antakya, south-east Turkey
  • Thursday, 4 January, 2024
    Leo Lewis
    Japan’s natural disaster preparedness has a corporate price

    Companies serve as visible units of permanence in an unstable world but that can make for unwieldy strategy

    A collapsed building in Japan after the earthquake
  • Tuesday, 2 January, 2024
    Japan
    Japan earthquake death toll rises to 55 as military joins relief effort

    Tsunami warnings lifted but thousands of residents remain in temporary shelters

    A collapsed house in Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture
  • Tuesday, 2 January, 2024
    Insurance
    Reinsurance costs surge after Turkey quake as industry assesses Japan fallout

    Reinsurers lift prices for property cover in annual renewal as major quake hits Japan

    Collapsed buildings in the aftermath of powerful earthquakes in Hatay, Turkey, in February 2023
  • Monday, 1 January, 2024
    Japan
    Deaths, blackouts and evacuations follow Japan coast earthquake

    Military sent to rescue people trapped after shocks kill four and leave thousands of homes without power

    Damage at a shrine in Kanazawa after a powerful earthquake hit Japan on Monday
  • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
    China’s Xi calls for ‘all-out’ search after earthquake kills at least 118

    Rescuers race to find survivors as hundreds injured in mountainous region in north-western provinces

    rescuers search a collapsed building in Caotan village of Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County in Haidong City, northwestern China’s Qinghai Province on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
    Natural disasters
    Iceland volcano erupts after weeks of heightened earthquake activity

    Lava spews from 4km fissure but international airport and power plant currently unaffected

    A volcano spews lava and smoke as it erupts in Grindavik, Iceland late on Monday
  • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
    Anjana Ahuja
    Volcanic drama reminds us that nature remains in charge

    A river of molten lava is on the move in an Icelandic town

    Andy Carter illustration of an erupting volcano breaking through ice sheets
  • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
    Iceland
    Iceland declares state of emergency as it braces for volcanic eruption

    Town in south-west evacuated as thousands of earthquakes are recorded close to country’s main airport

    Crack in road caused by volcanic activity
  • Sunday, 8 October, 2023
    Afghanistan
    Hundreds killed as Afghanistan reels from 6.3 magnitude earthquake

    Officials struggle to cope with one of the deadliest natural disasters to hit the country in recent years

    The rescuers stand on top of a pile of bricks
  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    Morocco
    Morocco gives no response to French offer to join quake rescue efforts

    Apparent diplomatic snub comes after Rabat welcomes help from other countries

    People look at ruined buildings after the earthquae
  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    News in-depthMorocco
    ‘Completely destroyed’: Morocco’s mountain villages count human cost of earthquake

    The remote High Atlas region has borne the brunt of the most powerful quake to strike the country in 120 years

    A man walks past damaged buildings in Ouirgane, Morocco
  • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
    Morocco
    Rescuers dig for quake survivors in Morocco

    At least 2,000 people have been killed but many more could still be trapped in collapsed buildings in mountain villages

    An elderly woman is given help in the wake of the earthquake in the mountain village of Tafeghaghte, south-west of Marrakesh
  • Friday, 14 July, 2023
    FT live news
    News updates from July 13: SEC sues bankrupt crypto lender Celsius, Decline in UK GDP less steep than expected
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