United States Geological Survey (USGS)
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Magnitude 7.8 quake jolts Russia’s Far East region
TEHRAN, Sep. 19 (MNA) – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake has struck the Kamchatka region in Russia’s Far East in what the US Geological Survey has called an “aftershock” from a massive earlier quake in July.
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Magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Hokkaido in Japan, no tsunam
TEHRAN, Feb. 24 (MNA) – A massive earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale struck Japan on Saturday. The quake's epicentre was Hokkaido with seismic intensity of 5-lower.