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The death toll is rising from a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit southeast Turkey and northern Syria early on Monday. Hundreds were killed in the two countries, thousands were injured and the toll was expected to rise further. ( read original story ...)

A powerful 7.8 magnitude quake rocked wide swathes of Turkey and Syria early on Monday, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing more than 2300 people. The death toll was expected to rise as rescue workers searched mounds of wreckage in cities and towns across the area, ( read original story ...)

The device is said to have detected an earthquake 400 miles away. Although this early device could determine whether an earthquake had happened in its vicinity, it could not measure the strength of the quake. ( read original story ...)

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake and major aftershocks rocked Turkey and Syria early Monday, killing thousands and leaving hundreds trapped under the rubble of flattened buildings. ( read original story ...)

Here we look at the devastating earthquakes in history that has forced human being scaling heights to kneel down always. ( read original story ...)

Some of the world's most deadly earthquakes in the past two decades are listed below, after a 7.8 magnitude quake struck central Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday and killed hundreds of people. ( read original story ...)

In the wake of a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that has struck Turkey and northwest Syria, killing hundreds of people across both nations, here are some the largest earthquakes from around the world during ... ( read original story ...)

A 7.8-strong earthquake struck Turkey near the Syrian border early morning, causing major damage, killing over 90 people, with many more feared dead. It evokes memories of other major earthquakes that ... ( read original story ...)

Aiming to better convey information to foreigners during times of emergency, a seminar including a workshop on speaking in ... ( read original story ...)

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Eastern New Guinea region on Saturday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. ( read original story ...)

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Eastern New Guinea region on Saturday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. ( read original story ...)

Both China and the United Nations have voiced serious concerns over Japan's plan to dump radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, amid widespread opposition, criticism and concerns from around ... ( read original story ...)

Its president, David Panuelo, who said in a speech at the UN General Assembly last year he had the “gravest concern” about the dumping of the radioactive water, told reporters in Tokyo he was now ... ( read original story ...)

The Pacific island country of Micronesia, one of the fiercest critics of a Japanese decision to release water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, said on Friday it was no longer ... ( read original story ...)

Micronesia President David Panuelo, in a joint statement issued with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ... was badly damaged by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, sparking three ... ( read original story ...)

A photographer captured the abandoned ghost towns surrounding Fukushima, Japan, six and 12 years after the famous disaster was triggered by the Tohoku tsunami off the country's eastern coast ... ( read original story ...)