Northeastern Mexico's Sea of Cortez region was rocked by an earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale at around 5 a.m. local time (1100 GMT) on Friday.

By press time, there have been no reports of injuries or property damage. This was partly because the epicenter was out at sea, said the National Seismology Service, which is a unit of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Cities in the region, Baja California Sur capital La Paz and tourist town Los Cabos, felt a moderate tremor.Local authorities reported that emergency service agencies had not received any calls for help.

Delaware was shaken up by an earthquake Wednesday morning that rattled some homes in New Jersey too!!

The tremor hit at 9:44 a.m. weighing in on the Richter scale at a 2.8 magnitude, according to Associated Press.  A quake of that level means people could feel the quake, but did not experience any severe damages from it.

The United States Geological Survey’s Web site located the start of the earth quake around two miles from Pennsville, N.J., after reports originally placed its epicenter in Wilmington by the Delaware River.Its epicenter spread out about three miles deep making it approximately 30 miles away from Philadelphia.

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The unique views of the active lava within the Halema`uma`u crater on the Kilauea volcano summit keep on coming, thanks to the efforts of scientists at the Hawaii Volcano Observatory.

Another "nightshot" image, captured on June 29th, has been released by the United States Geological Survey's HVO team.

According to the USGS website, the movie shows the lava surface within the cavity at Halema`uma`u. Keeping an eye on the lower left portion of the screen, one can see a large rock impacting the lava surface. This impact appears to trigger degassing and overturning that migrates across a large portion of the lava surface.

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An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale shook Mianzhu City, southwest of Sichuan Province, saw minor damange to more than 8,000 homes, the China National Seismological Network reported Tuesday.

The earthquake which took happened at about 2.03am (local time) on Tuesday, also saw eight people including one woman worker, suffering from slight injuries.

The woman worker were injured when she attempted to open a door when the earthquake struck, Xinhua news agency said in its report.

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A 3.4 magnitude earthquake shook Maui last night at 8:39 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.The quake centered 15 miles west-south-west of Hana, Pukalani and Makawao areas. Residents reported moderate shaking from the earthquake. Police say no damages were reported the temblor.

"We have no reports of injuries or damages," said Mahina Martin, Maui county spokeswoman. "But we did receive calls from Molokai, Kula and Lahaina, even though the earthquake was on the southern slopes of Haleakala."More than 300 people reported to the USGS Did you feel it website that they felt the shaker.

A Taiwanese commuter rides his scooter over a fault line that cracked the road after a 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck in December 2006. -- PHOTO: AP
TAIPEI - AN EARTHQUAKE with a magnitude of 5.3 struck off the east coast of Taiwan on Thursday, the central weather bureau said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

The undersea tremor hit at 05.09 am, 82 kilometres east of eastern Hualien city at a depth of 18 kilometres, the bureau said.

It was followed by a 5.0 magnitude aftershock one hour later, 70 kilometres east of Hualien at a depth of 31 kilometres.

Taiwan, which lies near the junction of two tectonic plates, is regularly shaken by earthquakes. A 7.6-magnitude quake killed around 2,400 people in September 1999

An earthquake with magnitude of 4.9 degrees on the Richter scale shook the central Chile Friday, without reports of casualty and damage.

The earthquake occurred at 9:06 a.m. local time (1306 GMT), its epicenter was located 29 km west to Illape, in Coquimbo region, according to the Seismological Service from the University of Chile.

According to the National office of Emergencies (Onemi), the earthquake has a maximum intensity of III grade in Mercalli scale in the cities of Illapel, Canela, Salamanca, Punitaqui, Los Villos and La Ligua.    The Onemi did not report casualties and material damages in the earthquake.

Southern Californians may be living on borrowed time. At least two sections of the notorious San Andreas Fault, a hotbed of tectonic tension, are apparently overdue for a huge earthquake that could devastate Los Angeles County or San Francisco. Though they can neither prevent nor pinpoint it, scientists would like to get as much information as they can as to where and when the next "Big One" could happen. Increasingly, they're turning to air and space to learn what's happening 10 miles underground.
A new radar plane developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the first American system designed to map earthquake hot zones. Previously, the only ways to scan the San Andreas involved using radar satellites launched by the European Space Agency, Canada,

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The U.S. Geological Survey said the 5.4 magnitude temblor struck about 24 miles from the town of Willow at 11:28 a.m. The rumbling lasted several moments in Anchorage, 58 miles from the epicenter, and was felt as far south as Kenai and north to Fairbanks, a span of 300 miles.

"Things were swinging pretty good and shaking, like pictures on the wall, bottles rattling — and my blood pressure went up at least 20 points," said Pam Rannals, a bartender in Talkeetna, about 30 miles from the epicenter. "We had bears in the parking lot last night and now the earthquake. Those are the talk of the town."No damage other than fallen dishes has been reported anywhere, and Rannals said even the liquor bottles at her workplace stayed put.

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The aftershock, which struck at around 11pm local time and had a magnitude of 4.6, was felt as far away as Rome, 75 miles to the west.
Italy's civil protection agency said its epicentre was just north of L'Aquila, a city which sits in a high valley in the Apennine Mountains of central Italy.It was followed by two smaller aftershocks, although there were no reports of casualties or damage.
Even so, it will raise new questions over the wisdom of holding the summit in L'Aquila, after it was moved from its original venue on an island off Sardinia.
The decision was taken by the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, who said the gesture was to show solidarity with the people who were killed and made homeless by the earthquake.

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