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G20 delegates to visit 2001 quake victims memorial in Gujarat's Bhuj

A group of G20 delegates, including three from Turkiye, who are currently in Gujarat's Rann of Kutch for the influential bloc's first meeting under the tourism track, is slated to visit on Friday an iconic memorial in Bhuj built after the deadly 2001 earthquake. Their visit will take place days after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake and several powerful aftershocks hit Turkiye and Syria, killing over 17,000 people and flattening thousands of buildings. Turkiye is a member of the G20, or Group of 20, an intergovernmental forum of the world's major developed and developing economies. The death toll in Turkiye since the Monday quake has risen to more than 14,000, with over 63,000 injured, according to international media reports. Over 100 delegates, including both from India and foreign countries have taken part in the G20 event held at the pristine Rann of Kutch being hosted from February 7-9. "The first tourism working group meeting had started from February 7. On that day, one-minute ..

5.8-magnitude quake hits Nepal; tremors felt in Delhi-NCR, Rajasthan

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal Tuesday afternoon with tremors also being felt in parts of Delhi, national capital region and Jaipur. The quake struck at 2:28 pm with the epicentre in Nepal at a place 148 km east of Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand, the National Centre for Seismology said. "It was scary as the tremors hit," said Shantanu, who resides in a high-rise tower in Noida. Amit Pandey, a Delhi resident, said, "I was on the fifth floor of one of the blocks at the Civic Centre. I felt a growling noise beneath my feet and a mild shake, when the tremor passed through perhaps." Many others in the towering Civic Centre, the headqauters of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, also felt the tremors which hit when the House proceedings were underway. Tremors were felt in parts of Rajasthan's capital city of Jaipur as well. There was no immediate report of loss of life or property from there.

5.2-magnitude quake hits Myanmar's Mandalay region; some buildings damaged

The quake was strongly felt in Mandalay and Sagaing regions

UN refugee agency to build 2,300 earthquake-resilient houses in Afghanistan

UNHCR teams have met with communities to present the project, identify the worst-affected families, and organize community groups to implement the community-based scheme

Cleanup begins after 7.4-magnitude earthquake shakes north Japan

Residents in Fukushima and Miyagi were cleaninThe region is part of an area devastated by a deadly 9.0 quake and tsunami 11 years ago that caused nuclear reactor meltdowns

Assam earthquake: CM Sarbananda Sonowal urges citizens to stay alert

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Wednesday urged citizens to stay alert after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Assam's Sonitpur

South California hit by 7.1-magnitude earthquake, largest in two decades

The latest quake was 11 times stronger than the previous day's 'foreshock', according to the United States Geological Survey, and is part of what seismologists are calling an 'earthquake sequence'

6.1 magnitude quake, aftershocks shake northwest Nicaragua

Puerto Morazan is about 125 kilometres northwest of the capital Managua

8-magnitude earthquake can hit Himalayas soon

New geologic mapping in Himalayas suggests that the region is ripe for a major earthquake, that could endanger the lives of about a million people.