The undersea quake rocked at 11.22 a.m. Jakarta time (0422 GMT) with its epicenter situated at 132 km northeast of Tuban regency, and a depth of 10 km, the agency said, Xinhua news agency reported.
No tsunami alert was issued by the agency as the tremors would not potentially trigger giant waves.
Indonesia, an archipelagic country, is prone to earthquakes for its location along the Pacific Ring of Fire, a tectonic belt of volcanoes and earthquakes.
Details are awaited.
"Earthquake of Magnitude:7.2, Occurred on 22-01-2024, 23:39:11 IST, Lat: 40.96 & Long: 78.30, Depth: 80 Km,Location: Southern Xinjiang, China," the National Center for Seismology said on X.
The US Geological Survey, which estimated the intensity of the quake at 7 on the Richter Scale, said that it occurred 129 km west by nortthwest of China's Aykol, and neighbouring Kyrgyzstan, Tajikstan, and Kazakhstan were also impacted.
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck southern Xinjiang earlier on Monday too, reports said.
The earthquake jolted at 01:29 a.m. Jakarta time on Thursday (1829 GMT on Wednesday), the agency reported.
The epicentre was located 46 km southwest of Keerom Regency with a depth of 62 km, it said as quoted by Xinhua news agency report.
No tsunami warning was issued. No damage or casualties were caused by the quake, provincial disaster agency official William Manderi told Xinhua.
Indonesia, an archipelagic nation, has been frequently jolted off by earthquakes for its location on a vulnerable quake-jolted area called "the Pacific Ring of Fire".
According to the GFZ German Research Centre for Geoscience, the quake's epicentre, with a depth of 192.1 km, was initially determined to be at 36.52 degrees north latitude and 70.71 degrees east longitude, reports Xinhua news agency.
There were no immediate reports of any casualties or damages.
The US Geological Survey (USGS said the quake’s magnitude was 6.4 while its epicentre was 44km south-southeast of Jurm, Afghanistan.
According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), tremors were felt in Islamabad, Lahore and its surrounding areas, and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, reports Dawn news.
In India, light tremors were felt in Delhi-NCR.
Further details are awaited.
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), a 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck off the Noto Peninsula at 10:54 a.m. (local time) on Wednesday at a depth of 10 km, reports Xinhua news agency.
On Tuesday at at 5:13 p.m, the JMA said a 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the Noto Peninsula at 5:13 p.m. local time on Tuesday at a depth of 10 km, measuring upper 5.
Since the massive earthquakes, with the strongest one measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, occurred on Monday, the region has witnessed at least 155 temblors.
The JMA has also lifted all tsunami advisories along the Sea of Japan following the quake, but weather officials warned that strong aftershocks may occur in the week, especially over the next two to three days.
Meanwhile, a total of 57,360 people evacuated in 955 locations across quake-affected Ishikawa and Niigata prefectures, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told mediapersons.
Local media reports showed that the water supply has been cut in a total of 16 cities and towns in the quake-hit Noto region.
Approximately 1,000 Self-Defense Force officers have arrived at the disaster area to carry out rescue operations.
The JMA said the earthquake, which measured the country's maximum seismic intensity of 7, recorded a maximum three-component vector sum peak ground acceleration of 28,266 gals.
The figure is comparable to the 29,334 gals recorded in Kuriyama city, Miyagi prefecture, which also experienced a top-intensity quake during the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
It is generally assumed that the greater the acceleration, the larger the shaking and damage, but other factors, such as the duration of the shaking, also play a role, said the JMA.
Injuries were reported in the prefectures of Ishikawa, Niigata, Fukui, Toyama, and Gifu.
On Monday, the earthquakes struck the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture at a shallow depth, reports Xinhua news agency.
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has officially named it the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake.
Since Monday, Japan has been hit by at least 155 quakes.
According to the Wajima city authority, the victims included a male teenager.
A large-scale fire broke out around the famous tourist spot Wajima morning market, engulfing approximately 200 buildings.
The city also experienced building collapses, with 14 cases of people being buried.
As more damage reports and information about people trapped continued to come in regarding other municipalities, injuries were reported in Niigata, Toyama, Fukui, and Gifu prefectures due to collapsed or damaged buildings.
Calling the rescue of those impacted by the earthquakes a battle against time,Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday said that the government has already dispatched a number of self-defense force troops to the impacted areas and will continue to provide assistance.
Meanwhile, all tsunami advisories in Japan have been removed, the JMA said in its latest update on Tuesday morning.
Following the temblors, a major tsunami warning was issued by the Agency for the Noto region, urging people to evacuate immediately.
Tsunami warnings were also in place for Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa prefectures.
The first waves reportedly hit the coast just over 10 minutes later after the earthquake struck.
Tsunami waves of up to 4 feet hit a number of areas along the country's western coast.
Currently, some 45,700 households are without power in Ishikawa prefecture, according to the Hokuriku Electric Power company on Tuesday.
Japan's public broadcaster NHK said that four bullet trains, whose high-speed journeys were halted on Monday, have now resumed service to their destinations, reports CNN.
The high-speed trains had been stranded between the central cities of Toyama and Kanazawa.
After being stationary for more than 11 hours, two trains arrived at the Toyama station at 4 a.m. on Tuesday, officials said.
Another two trains traveling in the opposite direction arrived at the Kanazawa station in Ishiwaka prefecture.
Nearly 1,400 passengers had been stranded inside the high-speed trains, NHK said, citing Japan Railways West.
Japan is one of the most seismically active nations on Earth, owing to its location on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, where many tectonic plates meet.
The 9.0-magnitude earthquake which hit Japan in 2011 resulted in a tsunami - which tore through the country's north-eastern coastal communities, killing almost 18,000 people and displacing tens of thousands.
Those tsunami waves triggered a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima power plant, causing the most serious nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
The major quake hitting Ishikawa, a coastal prefecture on the Island of Honshu, registered an intensity of 7 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale which peaks at 7, with temblors felt in multiple regions of the Asian country, according to the weather agency, Xinhua news agency reported.
The weather agency said the latest major temblor occurred at 4:10 p.m. local time (0710 GMT) at a shallow depth.
The temblor's epicenter was located in Ishikawa's Noto region, at Wajima east-northeast 30 km at 37.5 degrees north latitude and 137.2 degrees east longitude.
A major tsunami warning has been issued by the JMA for Noto region, urging people to evacuate immediately, following tsunami warnings for Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa prefectures of the Japan Sea side of the country.
Japanese public broadcaster NHK has warned of torrents of water of up to 5 meters.
According to the China Earthquake Networks Centre, the shallow quake jolted Gansu and Qinghai provinces at 11:59 p.m. on Monday, with a focal depth of 10 kilometres.
The epicentre of the earthquake Liugou township is about 8 kilometres from the county seat of Jishishan Bao'an, Dongxiang, Sala autonomous county in Linxia Hui autonomous prefecture in Gansu.
Experts say shallow quakes cause heavy damage to infrastructure.
Qinghai province is adjacent to the Tibet Himalayan region which is prone to frequent earthquakes due to shifting of continental plates.
A second quake struck the neighbouring Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region hours later on Tuesday.
The Atux City of Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, was struck by the earthquake at 9:46 a.m. loacal time on Tuesday, the CENC said.
The epicentre, with a depth of 10 km, was monitored at 40.02 degrees north latitude and 77.86 degrees east longitude, the CENC said.
Gansu and Qinghai also experienced aftershocks.
While 105 people were killed in Gansu, 13 others died in Qinghai due to the quake, according to official media reports.
So far 579 people have been reported injured in the quake-hit areas, officials said.
The quake has damaged 6,381 houses in Jishishan.
So far 32 aftershocks were recorded, with the largest registering a magnitude of 4.0, said Han Shujun, a spokesperson for the provincial emergency management department, at the press conference.
The quake has destroyed some rural roads, leading to power outages and telecommunication failures. The maintenance crew has been working overnight to repair the damaged infrastructure.
Several villages suffered power failures and disruption of water.
The Ministry of Transport, which monitors the operation of roads, said on Tuesday morning that a bridge across the Yellow River had cracked because of the quake.
According to local meteorological authorities, the daily low temperature in Jishishan is reported to climb minus 10 degrees Celsius on Tuesday.
The provincial fire and rescue department sent 580 rescuers aided with 88 fire engines, 12 search and rescue dogs, and more than 10,000 sets of equipment to the disaster area.
The railway authority has suspended passenger and cargo trains passing through the quake zone and ordered a safety check of railway tracks.
Hu Changsheng, the ruling Communist Party chief of Gansu, and Ren Zhenhe, the governor of Gansu, have rushed to the disaster-hit area to command rescue and relief efforts.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang have ordered all-out rescue efforts to minimise casualties after the earthquake.
Xi asked local authorities to rescue and treat the injured people promptly, and closely monitor the earthquake situation and weather changes to prevent secondary disasters.
The local disaster reduction office reported that a woman from Tagum City in Davao del Norte province was killed when a wall of her house collapsed, reports Xinhua news agency.
Her husband and child were injured.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council was still assessing the quake's impact and has yet to confirm any quake-related deaths or injuries.
In an updated report on Sunday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology upgraded the magnitude of the earthquake from 6.9 to 7.4.
The institute said the quake, which occurred at 10.37 p.m. on Saturday night, hit at a depth of 25 km, about 30 km northeast of Hinatuan town.
The institute said the tectonic quake, which was felt in parts of Mindanao island and central Philippines, will cause damage.
The institute has recorded over 500 aftershocks till Sunday morning, some with magnitude of over 5 and 6.
The institute also issued a tsunami warning on Saturday night, prompting residents living in the coastal areas close to the epicenter to evacuate to higher grounds or move farther inland.
The residents returned home after the institute lifted the tsunami alert.
Philippine Coast Guard said on Sunday morning that all vessels and aircraft were placed on alert to be ready for dispatch.
Last month, a 6.8-magnitude offshore earthquake, hitting about 34 km northwest of Sarangani town with a depth of 72 km, led to at least nine deaths, according to authorities.
The archipelagic Philippines has frequent seismic activities due to its location along the Pacific "Ring of Fire".
It said the epicentre for the quake was 233 kilometres north of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh.
The quake triggered panic among people, with many in Delhi and the National Capital Region reporting vigorous shaking of furniture.
Several social media users shared visuals of people rushing out of residential buildings.
At least 157 people were killed and more than 160 injured when a powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake, the worst since 2015, struck Nepal on Friday night and destroyed hundreds of houses in the Himalayan nation's remote mountainous region.
Nepal lies in one of the most active tectonic zones (seismic zones IV and V) of the world, making the country extremely vulnerable to earthquakes.
According to the National Centre for Seismology (NSC), the earthquake occurred at 1 a.m. on Sunday.
The NCS further said that the quake's epicentre was 215 km north of Ayodhya at a depth of 10 km.
"Earthquake of Magnitude: 3.6, Occurred on 05-11-2023, 01:07:22 IST, Lat: 28.73 & Long: 82.26, Depth: 10 Km, Location: 215 km N of Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh," it said.
Earlier on Friday, tremors were felt in the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) and some other parts of north India as an earthquake of 6.4 magnitude hit Nepal.
“Deeply saddened by loss of lives and damage due to the earthquake in Nepal. India stands in solidarity with the people of Nepal and is ready to extend all possible assistance. Our thoughts are with the bereaved families and we wish the injured a quick recovery," the Prime Minister said in a post on X, tagging Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda'.
At least 69 people were killed and dozens were injured on midnight Friday when a 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit western Nepal, officials said.
The earthquake jolted the western Jajarkot district at around 2:02 a.m. local time Saturday (1802 GMT Friday) with a depth of 18 km, Xinhua news agency reported, citing the US Geological Survey.
The quake killed at least 35 people in Rukum district and 34 others in neighbouring Jajarkot district, officials said.
According to the National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre, the earthquake with an epicentre in Jajarkot district was recorded at 11:47 pm.
The impact of the quake was felt in Kathmandu and surrounding districts, and even in New Delhi in neighbouring India.
The Jajarkot and Rukum districts of western Nepal were worst hit by the quake, according to state-run Nepal Television.
According to the Home Ministry, 128 people were killed and 140 others were injured in the two districts. The number of houses damaged could not be ascertained so far.
The death toll is expected to rise.
Prime Minister Pushpakamal Dahal 'Prachanda' headed towards the quake-hit region with a medical team Saturday morning. Both Nepal Army and Nepal Police personnel have been mobilised to carry out rescue work, officials said.
“Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has expressed his deep sorrow over the loss of lives and property in the earthquake on Friday night and has mobilised all the three security bodies for the immediate rescue and relief,” reads a post from the prime minister’s office on X.
Injured people are undergoing treatment at the Surkhet District Hospital, officials said. The Prime Minister has instructed security agencies to immediately carry out rescue and relief works.
As the roads were blocked and bridges damaged, rescue and relief works on the incident site have been obstructed, according to officials.
All three security agencies, the Nepal Army, Nepal Police and Armed Police Force have been mobilised for rescue works.
At least four aftershocks with more than 4 magnitude hit Jajarkot after the quake.
Earthquakes are common in Nepal which is situated on the ridge where the Tibetan and Indian tectonic plates meet and advance two meters closer to one another every century which results in pressure which is released in the form of earthquakes.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake and subsequent aftershocks killed around 9,000 people in 2015
The epicentre was in Faridabad and the depth was 10 km, said NCS.
"Earthquake of Magnitude:3.1, Occurred on 15-10-2023, 16:08:16 IST, Lat: 28.41 & Long: 77.41, Depth: 10 Km ,Location: 9 km E of Faridabad, Haryana, India," NCS tweeted.
Delhi and its surrounding areas experienced strong tremors, lasting for several seconds.
The most affected area is the Zanda Jan district in Herat, where 13 villages have been "utterly destroyed", Xinhua news agency quoted Mawlawi Musa Ashari, Herat's provincial director for the National Disaster Management Authority, as saying on Sunday night.
Earlier on Sunday, spokesman for the National Disaster Management Authority, Mullah Janan Shaeq, said more than 9,200 people had been injured during the quakes.
The earthquake struck about 40 km north-west of the city of Herat at around 11 a.m. on October 7.
With communications down and many roads blocked, rescue workers are struggling to reach remote areas.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 465 houses have been completely destroyed.
Herat is located 120 km east of the Iranian border and an estimated 1.9 million people are believed to be living in the province.
Afghanistan is frequently hit by earthquakes -- especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range as it lies near the junction of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates.
In June last year, Paktika province was hit by a 5.9 magnitude quake which killed more than 1,000 people and left thousands homeless.
The tremor took place at around 11.10 local time a.m., forcing people to flee from their houses, Xinhua news agency quoted the locals as saying.
There no immediate information on injuries or damages.
Officials are also yet to comment.
The epicentre was in Nepal and the depth was five kms, said NCS.
“Earthquake of Magnitude:6.2, Occurred on 03-10-2023, 14:51:04 IST, Lat: 29.39 & Long: 81.23, Depth: 5 Km, Location:Nepal," NCS tweeted.
Delhi and its peripherals felt strong tremors, lasting for several seconds.
Videos on social media showed people running out of their residential premises and offices.
The rescue teams dispatched by Spain and the UK have arrived in the village of Amizmiz near the epicentre. Helicopters are seen shuttling back and forth between the tremor-hit old city of Marrakesh and other quake-affected areas, Xinhua news agency reported.
Rescue and relief efforts are also continuing to access the hardest-hit mountainous regions.
There is still a shortage in the supply of gasoline and covers.
The 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit the North African country at 11:11 p.m. local time on Friday at a depth of 18.5 km, said the US Geological Survey.
According to the US Geological Survey, the epicentre was in the High Atlas Mountains, 71 km south-west of Marrakesh, at a depth of 18.5 km, the BBC reported.
The quake struck at 11.11 p.m. and videos on social media showed people fleeing on the roads, damaged buildings and rubble-strewn streets.
The tremors were also reportedly felt in the capital Rabat, some 350 km away from the epicentre, as well as the cities of Casablanca and Essaouira.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday condoled the loss of lives in a massive earthquake in Morocco. He also offered assistance to the North African country.
Extremely pained by the loss of lives due to an earthquake in Morocco. In this tragic hour, my thoughts are with the people of Morocco. Condolences to those who have lost their loved ones. May the injured recover at the earliest. India is ready to offer all possible assistance to…
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 9, 2023
"Extremely pained by the loss of lives due to an earthquake in Morocco. In this tragic hour, my thoughts are with the people of Morocco. Condolences to those who have lost their loved ones. May the injured recover at the earliest. India is ready to offer all possible assistance to Morocco in this difficult time," Modi posted on X (formerly Twitter).
The agency reported that the quake occurred at 2:55 a.m. Tuesday Jakarta Time (1955 GMT Monday), with its epicenter at 180 km southeast of Tanah Bumbu and a depth of 10 km under the seabed, Xinhua news agency reported.
The tremor did not potentially trigger giant waves, it added.
According to a tweet by the National Centre for Seismology (NCS), the earthquake of magnitude occurred on Saturday at 9.31.48 IST, at a point at latitude 36.38 degrees and longitude 70.77 degrees, at a depth of 181 km in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan.
Further details were awaited.
Data released by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said the quake struck at 8.36 a.m. in the morning and its epicentre was recorded in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Its depth was 129 kms inside the earth and its coordinates are latitude 35.46 degrees north and longitude 73.32 degrees east.
Kashmir is situated on a highly earthquake prone zone and temblors have wrought havoc here in the past.
Over 80,000 people were killed by an earthquake that occurred on October 8, 2005 measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale.
That earthquake caused colossal damage to life and property on both sides of the Line of Control.
According to the French Central Seismological Bureau (FCSB), the epicentre of the quake which struck at 6.38 p.m. on Friday evening, was determined to be 28 km to the southwest of the city of Niort, in the Deux-Sevres department, reports Xinhua news agency.
Calling it "one of the strongest earthquakes recorded in metropolitan France", Minister for the Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, Christophe Bechu, said that the evaluation of the damage is being conducted.
"So far, one minor injury has been taken care of by the emergency services," he said on social media.
In the neighbouring Charente-Maritime prefecture, numerous material damages such as cracks have been reported on buildings, but no casualty has been reported.
"1,100 homes are currently without electricity, and a high voltage line has been affected", the prefecture added.
The epicentre of the quake, that took place at 5.15 p.m., was located at a latitude of 23.291 and a longitude of 70.293, with a depth of 18.5 kilometers, informed Gujarat government's Institute of Seismological Research.
This recent earthquake comes just weeks after the last seismic event in Kutch, which occurred in May 2023. The previous earthquake, measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale, struck the Khavda region of Kutch near the India-Pakistan border.
As the region braced for the approaching cyclone Biparjoy, parts of the Saurashtra-Kutch region experienced heavy rainfall accompanied by strong winds, as reported by the Meteorological Department on Wednesday.
According to the State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC), in last 24 hour, 54 talukas across the Saurashtra and Kutch districts received more than 10 mm of rainfall. The districts of Devbhumi Dwarka, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Porbandar, and Junagadh witnessed particularly intense rainfall.
Among the affected areas, Khambhaliya taluka in Devbhumi Dwarka district recorded the highest rainfall with 121 mm, followed by Dwarka with 92 mm and Kalyanpur with 70 mm during the mentioned period, as reported by the SEOC.
The combination of the earthquake and heavy rainfall has added to the challenges faced by the residents of Kutch, who are already preparing for the impact of cyclone Biparjoy.
The authorities continue to monitor the situation closely and are working diligently to ensure the safety and well-being of the affected population.
The tremors were felt across Delhi and other parts of north India, and in neighbouring Pakistan.
The National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said the 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck the region at 1:33 pm. Its epicentre was in Doda.
The earthquake struck at a depth of 6 kilometres, it said.
In Doda's Bhaderwah town, a few buildings developed cracks due to the tremors.
The false ceiling of a ward of the sub-district hospital collapsed.
Some of the debris fell on patients recuperating in the hospital ward, an official said.
The patients have been moved to safety and are being treated in an emergency ward of the hospital, he said.
Azim Malik, a resident of Ghata Bhaderwah, said his house was damaged due to the tremors.
"It was a strong earthquake and cracks have developed in my house," Malik told PTI.
Panic-stricken schoolchildren gathered in fields in the Bhaderwah valley and teachers were seen consoling a few of them who were sobbing.
Officials in Doda said they are assessing the damage caused by the earthquake.
Tremors were also felt in Chamba in Himachal Pradesh, about 150 km from Doda.
"Things in my kitchen were shaking due to the tremors," said Nandini, a resident of Shimla.
The earthquake was also felt in parts of Punjab and Haryana but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage to property.
"The tremors were mild and I felt them while I was sitting on a chair," said Baldev Chand, a resident of Chandigarh.
According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the epicentre of the Tuesday night tremor, with a depth of 187.589 km, was initially determined to be at 36.5227 degrees north latitude and 70.9787 degrees east longitude in Jurm, Afghanistan, reports Xinhua news agency.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Disaster Management Authority in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa said five men, two women and two children were killed in the Pakistani province.
At least 21 women, 19 men and seven children were also injured and admitted to different hospitals for treatment, the Authority added.
Ensuing landslides have also blocked roads in the city of Abbotabad as well as the Karakoram Highway in the Harban area of Kohistan.
Major Pakistani cities, including Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Lahore, Mansehra, Abbottabad, Muzaffarabad, Peshawar, Haripur, Mardan, Chitral, Charsadda, also felt the quake.
Videos from Islamabad show panic-stricken people, especially those living in high-rises, rushing out of their homes, reports Dawn news.
According to initial reports, cracks appeared in the Al-Janaat Mall in Rawalpindi and buildings in Islamabad.
Following the earthquake, emergency response centres were established and an emergency was declared in hospitals in northwest Pakistan.
Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif ordered the National Disaster Management Authority and other institutions to be ready to deal with any emergency.
Meanwhile in Afghanistan, two people died in the Takhar province and a third fatality was reported in Laghman.
Spokesman for the Public Health Ministry Sharafat Zaman Amar on Wednesday said that at least 44 people were also injured, adding that the number of casualties might increase as search and rescue operations are currently underway.
Acting Interior Minister Sarajudin Haqqani has instructed concerned bodies to provide humanitarian aid to the affected families.
The tremors were also felt strongly across north India, from Kashmir to Delhi-NCR and reports poured in on social media about people reporting fans and appliances swaying, while many ran out of their houses.
There were no reports of any casualties or injuries in India.
Tremors were felt over a 1,000-km area that spans India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre.
Earthquakes are more likely in this region because it lies at the juncture of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates.
In June last year more than 1,000 people were killed after a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan's Paktika province, the country's deadliest in nearly a quarter of a century.
Therefore, it is important to know what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided in such an emergency situation.
In the wake of the tremors in Delhi on Tuesday, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has released a set of do's and don'ts to ensure safety before, during and after an earthquake.
• Consult a structural engineer to make your house earthquake resistant.
• Repair deep plaster cracks on walls and ceilings.
• Fasten shelves securely to walls: place heavy/large objects on lower shelves.
• Have an emergency kit ready.
• Develop an emergency communication plan for family.
• Learn the technique of Drop — Cover — Hold.
• Stay Calm and Do Not Panic.
• DROP under a table: COVER your head with one hand and HOLD the table till the tremors last.
• Run outside as soon as the tremors stop — DO NOT use lift.
• When outside move away from buildings, trees, walls and poles.
• When inside a vehicle — pull over in an open place and remain inside; avoid bridges.
• Avoid entering damaged buildings.
• If trapped in rubble: - Do not light a matchstick: - Cover your mouth with a cloth; - Tap on a pipe or wall; - Sound a whistle; - Shout only as a last resort.
• Use stairs and NOT lifts or elevators.
As per the National Center for Seismology (NCS), an earthquake of magnitude 6.6 occurred on Tuesday at 22:17:27 IST.
Earthquake
The location of the earthquake as per NCS was 133 km SSE of Fayzabad in Afghanistan.
The earthquake was recorded at a depth of 156 km, the NCS tweeted.
On the other hand, the US Geological Services said, the 6.5 magnitude quake had an epicentre 40 km south by south east of Afghanistan's Jurm. It occurred at a depth of nearly 190 km.
In Delhi, following the earthquake, Delhi Fire Services sources said that they received a call about the tilting of a building in Shakarpur area.
Delhi Earthquake: People come out of their apartments following tremors in Noida, Sector 21#DelhiEarthquake #Earthquake pic.twitter.com/WmqAy5bWNe
— OTV (@otvnews) March 21, 2023
Panic-stricken people rushed out of buildings as the earthquake struck around 10.20 pm and was also felt in Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan. In no time, images of people out on roads and open spaces started flooding the social media.
There was no immediate report of any loss of life or property.
Later in the evening, Delhi Fire Services director confirmed that "No building in Shakarpur area was found tilted. An initial call was given by some of the neighbours. The occupants of the building were not aware of the call."
The earthquake occurred at 03:02 a.m. local time Friday (2002 GMT Thursday) with its epicentre located 133 km northwest of Morotai Island district and a depth of 112 km under the seabed, and did not trigger a tsunami, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said.
The tremors of the earthquake were also felt in the nearby province of North Sulawesi, according to the agency.
So far, the tremors of the quake did not cause damages on buildings or infrastructure facilities, said Abdul Muhari, spokesman of the National Disaster Management and Mitigation Agency as quoted by Xinhua news agency report.
"There are no initial reports of damages or casualties after the earthquake," the spokesman told Xinhua through phone.
"The residents in the Morotai Island district felt the tremors, but they were not panic," Yusri A Kasim, head of the emergency unit of the disaster agency in North Maluku province, told Xinhua by phone.
Indonesia sits on a vulnerable quake-hit zone called "the Pacific Ring of Fire".
Louisa Vinton, the UNDP's Turkey resident representative, told an online press briefing on Tuesday that the country's government had inspected around 70 per cent of the buildings affected by the quakes. Of these, 412,000 housing units in 118,000 buildings have collapsed or need to be demolished completely.
She said that the amount of rubble that needed to be cleared was enormous, and that the UNDP was seeking to minimise the threat of hazardous waste, Xinhua news agency reported.
According to Vinton, two weeks after the first quakes, there is reason to call this the largest natural disaster in Turkey's history.
She added that the government concluded the search and rescue phase for the first quakes on Sunday, and the last survivor was pulled from the rubble almost 300 hours after the quake.
Catherine Smallwood, senior emergency officer for the WHO, told Tuesday's press briefing that managing the risks of communicable diseases is now vital as several displaced people live in close quarters, sometimes with poor access to toilets and clean water.
"There is a heightened risk of respiratory illnesses, cholera, hepatitis A and measles," she said.
In recent weeks, Turkey's southern Kahramanmaras province has been rattled by a series of earthquakes ranging from magnitude 6.4 to 7.7.
The quakes also hit parts of Syria. In total, an estimated 47,000 people have lost their lives in the two countries, according to media reports.
The magnitude of the earthquake was recorded as 3 on the Richter scale. There was no loss of life or damage to houses due to the quake.
The epicentre of the quake was close to the Pulichintala reservoir.
Tremors were felt in several villages of Chintalapalem and Mellacheruvu mandals (blocks) of Suryapet district of Telangana at around 7.25 a.m. The tremors felt for about 10 seconds.
Scientists at National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) have asked people not to panic as it was not a major earthquake.
Tremors were also felt in villages surrounding the Pulichintala project in Palnadu district of Andhra Pradesh.
People in Madipadu, Challagariga, Ginjupalli in Achampet mandal said they heard a loud explosion.
The tremors sent panic among people in the villages around the project.
The region had also experienced an earthquake of 4.7 magnitude on January 26, 2020.
The man has been identified as Hakan Yasinoglu. Even after almost 12 days, which is around 278 hours, Hakan was miraculously alive under the rubble.
However, the mood on the ground seemed somber, unlike other rescues, where teams rejoiced or applauded. Three other people including a 14-year-old boy were rescued safely late Thursday and early Friday. Similarly, Turkish rescuers had pulled out a 17-year-old girl and a woman in her 20s out of the rubble a day back.
278. saat mucizesi!
— Ekrem İmamoğlu (@ekrem_imamoglu) February 17, 2023
Hatay'da 278 saat sonra Hakan Yasinoğlu sağ olarak kurtarıldı. pic.twitter.com/O8excnDmi9
Meanwhile, rescue teams have been working round the clock to find survivors under the rubble, although their numbers have dropped in the past few days. The hopes of finding more survivors have largely faded.
On the other hand, the death toll has exceeded 41,000 due to the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria. On the other hand, the survivors are trying to survive amid the freezing cold without food, water and toilets.
Martin Griffiths, UN under secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, said the plan now is to cover three months of humanitarian needs in Syria, Xinhua news agency reported.
"Now (in) the humanitarian phase, the urgency is providing shelter, it's like social care, food, schooling and a sense of the future for these people. That's our obligation," he told reporters in the government-controlled northern Syrian city of Aleppo, following a tour to sites damaged by the February 6 earthquakes.
About the situation in the rebel-held areas in the northwestern province of Idlib, Griffiths said the UN would have aid moving to that region and that truckloads of relief supplies were also moving from Turkey to northwestern Syria.
He lauded the international search and rescue response to the earthquake as "unparalleled in history", wishing to see "the same for the humanitarian needs".
The United Nations had said on Friday that the earthquake in Syria had displaced 5.3 million people.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Monday that the death toll from quakes in rebel-held areas in northwestern Syria stood at 4,300, while 7,600 others were injured.
Meanwhile, the Syrian health ministry estimated that the earthquakes have killed 1,414 people and wounded 2,349 others in government-controlled areas.
The number of wounded, meanwhile, rose to more than 80,000 in Turkey and 2,349 in Syria, according to official figures released on Sunday.
Turkey has issued arrest warrants for 134 suspects involved in the faulty construction of buildings that collapsed in the earthquakes, Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Sunday.
Three of the suspects were arrested, Bozdag told reporters.
The catastrophic earthquakes have flattened more than 20,000 buildings across the 10 quake-affected regions, Xinhua news agency reported.
Yavuz Karakus and Sevilay Karakus, contractors of many buildings destroyed in the earthquake in southern Adiyaman province, were detained at Istanbul Airport while trying to escape to Georgia, the local NTV broadcaster reported on Sunday.
Two more people were arrested for cutting the column of a building that collapsed in Gaziantep province, the semi-official Anadolu Agency reported.
Thousands of rescuers continued to search for any sign of life in collapsed multi-storey buildings on the seventh day of the disaster. Hopes for finding alive survivors are fading, but the teams still manage some incredible rescues.
Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca posted a video of a girl child rescued at the 150th hour. "Rescued a little while ago by crews. There is always hope!" he tweeted on Sunday.
Rescue workers pulled out 65-year-old women in the Antakya district of Hatay province 160 hours after the quake, the Anadolu Agency reported.
A survivor was rescued from the debris in the Antakya district of Hatay province by Chinese and local rescuers on Sunday afternoon, 150 hours after the quake hit the region.
On Sunday, Algeria and Libya also sent planes full of relief items to the quake-hit areas.
Meanwhile, foreign heads of state and ministers started to pay visits to Turkey and Syria for showing solidarity.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias visited Turkey on Sunday in a show of support. "We will continue to do our best to overcome difficult times, both at bilateral and the level of the European Union," said Dendias, the first European Foreign Minister visiting Turkey after the disaster.
The visit by the Greek Foreign Minister comes amid long-standing tensions between the two NATO states over territorial disputes.
The Qatari emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the first foreign head of a state visiting quake-hit Turkey, met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Sunday.
Qatar has sent the first part of the 10,000 container houses for earthquake victims in Turkey, the Anadolu Agency reported.
On Sunday, Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan visited Syria, promising continuing support for the country to overcome the repercussions of the catastrophic earthquake, Syrian state news agency SANA reported.
"Earthquake of Magnitude:4.0, Occurred on 12-02-2023, 16:18:17 IST, Lat: 26.10 & Long: 92.72, Depth: 10 Km ,Location: Nagaon, Assam...," tweeted the National Center for Seismology.
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— National Center for Seismology (@NCS_Earthquake) February 12, 2023
Earlier on Saturday, an earthquake of magnitude 4.2 occurred 343 km North of Kargil, Ladakh.
Meanwhile, the combined death toll in the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6 has surpassed 28,000.
On the other hand, the seventh plane from India, carrying relief material, essentials, and emergency and critical care medicines for earthquake relief efforts for Syria and Turkey, was despatched on Saturday.
"On Saturday evening, earthquake relief material and equipment were sent to Syria and Turkey onboard another IAF C-17 aircraft. After offloading relief material at Damascus, the flight will head towards Adana," informed an MEA official.
The rescue operations, which were paused on Saturday after two unidentified groups clashed, resumed after Turkish army stepped in to offer protection, BBC reported.
Nearly 50 people have been arrested for looting ration at gun point, local media reported.
As food supply is dwindling, security is expected to worsen, BBC quoted a rescuer as saying.
During a visit to the disaster zone, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: "We've declared a state of emergency and would use emergency powers to punish anyone breaking the law."
Meanwhile, a two-month-old baby was rescued miraculously from under the rubble after over 128 hours. The crowd erupted in joy after the baby was pulled out from the debris in the heart-wrenching rescue operation.
With little bit of bruises, the child is doing fine and has been admitted to a hospital. A few days back, a newborn baby with its umbilical cord tied to its dead mother was also rescued safely from under the rubble. She has been named Aya- meaning miracle in Arabic.
2 months old, 120 hrs under the rubble just in case you don’t believe in miracles. #Turkey#earthquake pic.twitter.com/c0MGtnrnE9
— Abier (@abierkhatib) February 11, 2023
Similarly, a little boy, who was rescued from under the rubble, was overjoyed and started playing with the rescue team. A video of the incident had earlier gone viral on social media platforms.
Similarly, a newborn baby and his mother were rescued almost 90 hours after the first of Turkey’s deadly earthquakes. The 10-day-old baby was retrieved from a ruined structure. He was then wrapped in a thermal blanket and taken to the hospital for treatment. His mother was also brought out alive and admitted to the hospital.
The hopes of finding more survivors are diminishing amid freezing cold conditions. However, several rescue teams are continuing with their efforts and scouring through flattened neighbourhoods in both Turkey and neighbouring Syria to save lives.
On the other hand, the death toll has risen to 28,000 with 6000 buildings collapsed under the aftershocks after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
In its latest update, Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said the overall death toll currently stood at 20,318, with 80,052 reported injuries, Anadolu News Agency reported.
The 7.7- and 7.6-magnitude earthquakes, centred in the Kahramanmaras province, affected more than 13 million people across the provinces of Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye and Sanliurfa.
In Syria, the total number of those killed stands at 3,513, CNN reported.
According to volunteer organisation Syria Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, 2,166 deaths were registered in rebel-held areas in the northwest of the country.
Meanwhile, the Syrian state media has said that 1,347 fatalities were reported in government-controlled parts of the war-torn nation.
The delivery of urgent supplies to quake-hit rebel-held areas in northern and northwestern Syria has been complicated by a long-running civil war between opposition groups and the Syrian government.
On Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan acknowledged that his government's response to the massive disaster was not as fast as desired, reports Xinhua news agency.
"Too many buildings were damaged, unfortunately. We were not able to speed up our interventions as quickly as we had desired," he told reporters in the quake-affected Adiyaman province.
The emergency work was "very difficult" as the devastating effect of the earthquake spread over an area of 500 km, he said, adding that the harsh winter has been another obstacle.
"Most of the public workers, who would have conducted the first intervention and organizations, were themselves under the collapsed buildings," the President added.
Erdogan had earlier admitted that the government had shortcomings in responding to disaster on the first day, but then had better managed the situation.
But now the country has gathered "perhaps the world's largest search and rescue teams" with more than 141,000 staff, including foreign emergency teams, he said.
The President has pledged to rebuild the quake-hit region within one year and provide one-year rental assistance for victims of the earthquake if they do not want to live in tents.
Erdogan's government has faced criticism from the quake victims that the emergency response was late and humanitarian aid was not sufficient in the earthquake zone of 10 provinces, which are home to nearly 13.5 million people.
The Turkish parliament on Thursday passed a state of emergency decision in 10 provinces impacted by the earthquake for three months upon the request of the President.
Meanwhile, over 81,000 people have been evacuated from the quake hit regions, according to AFAD.
Rescuers, relatives and local citizens burst into tears of joy after an eight-year-old boy was saved from the ruins of a building at Antakya, a district of Hatay province, 108 hours after the quake.
In the town of Iskenderun, a family of six was extracted from the rubble after 102 hours.
Raziye and Haci Murat Kilinc, two neighbours of the family, were rescued after 107 hours.
Many countries and global aid agencies have voiced support for the two countries, and some of them have sent rescue teams and relief supplies to quake-hit regions.
The devastating 7.8 tremor struck Turkey's southern province of Kahramanmaras at 4.17 a.m. on February 6, which was followed by a 6.4-magnitude temblor a few minutes later in Gaziantep province.
The epicentre of the 7.8-magnitude quake was 23 km east of Nurdagi in Gaziantep, at a depth of 24.1 km.
At around 1.30 p.m, a third 7.5-magnitude tremor hit Kahramanmaras.
The woman could not help but kissed the face of the woman soldier and blessed her for the rescue and relief work. Now, the picture of the Turkish woman kissing the woman soldier has been going viral online.
The beautiful picture was shared by Additional Directorate General of Public Information (ADG PI) of the Indian Army. Sharing the beautiful picture, they wrote, “We care #OperationDost.”
#OperationDost
— ADG PI - INDIAN ARMY (@adgpi) February 9, 2023
We Care.#IndianArmy#Türkiye pic.twitter.com/WoV3NhOYap
After being shared online, the post has garnered over 763.2K views and 19K likes and counting.
“Respect and gratitude to the Indian Army and their selfless services. This is such a nice gesture,” commented a user.
Similarly, another user wrote, “Muslim Ummah is sending prayers for Turkey and Syria and non-Muslims are sending humanitarian aid.”
A Pakistani girl also praised India and wrote, “Some Pakistanis are calling me an Indian agent for praising India’s Operation Dost launched to help earthquake hit Turkey and Syria. But, I still praise what is in favour of the humanity. I praise India for their efforts to save lives. Prayers.”
India has initiated ‘Operation Dost’ to help the Earthquake-hit Turkey and Syria in the aftermath of the quakes. As part of Operation Dost, the Indian Army had sent medical supplies, medical professions, a mobile hospital and rescue teams as part of ‘Operation Dost’.
The mobile hospital was well equipped with surgical and emergency wards.
Sharing the news, S Jaishankar wrote, “Under Operation Dost, India is sending search and rescue teams, a field hospital, materials, medicines and equipment to Turkey and Syria. This is an ongoing operation and we would be posting updates.”
Meanwhile, the death count in Monday’s Turkey-Syria earthquake has crossed 21,000 even as the rescue operations are on round the clock.
The baby’s mother died after giving birth under the rubble of their home in the Syrian town of Jenderis. The baby was rescued with her umbilical cord still tied to her dead mother. Unfortunately, her father and siblings also died in the devastating natural disaster.
She has been named Aya which means ‘Miracle’ in English. Currently, the baby is under treatment at a hospital. The baby had bumps, bruises; she was cold and barely breathing.
Beautiful Syrian newborn #Aya is now in stable condition. Arriving on Monday at the hospital with bumps, bruises, cold and barely breathing according to Hani Marouf MD. Her name ‘Aya’ translates to miracle and her birth & survival is nothing short of one! #HelpTurkeySyria🇹🇷🇸🇾❤️ pic.twitter.com/uT2MExEXtn
— ᎶᏗᏰᏰᎩᏒᎧᏕᏋᥫ᭡❤️🔥🐺❤️🔥🇺🇦 (@GabbieRose26) February 10, 2023
A doctor’s wife has been breastfeeding the baby along with her child. Thousands of people had come forward to adopt Aya, but her father’s uncle has offered to adopt the baby and take her home.
The miracle baby survived under the rubbles even as all of her immediate family members have died. Now, her father’s uncle has decided to adopt her even though he has himself lost his family members in the quake. His own house has also been completely destroyed and he is currently living in a tent.
Aya is one of the several children who have been orphaned due to the earthquake. Meanwhile, the death toll in the devastating quake has crossed 21,000 on Friday.
The death toll from the earthquakes climbed to 17,674 in Turkey, with 72,879 injuries, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said on Thursday.
In Syria, 1,678 people were killed in government-held areas, and the death toll in the opposition-held region stood at 2,190, according to media reports.
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Turkey's southern province of Kahramanmaras at 4:17 a.m. local time, followed by a magnitude 6.4 quake a few minutes later in the country's southern province of Gaziantep and a magnitude 7.6 earthquake at 1:24 p.m. local time in Kahramanmaras province, Xinhua news agency reported.
International search and rescue teams, including an 82-member Chinese rescue team that arrived in Turkey on Wednesday, rushed to the quake-impacted zone to assist in rescue efforts.
In its latest update, Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD) said the country's overall death toll currently stood at 12,391 people, with 62,914 others injured, reports Anadolu News Agency.
More than 6,000 buildings collapsed in the aftermath of Monday's massive 7.8-magnitude quake, while more than 13 million people have been impacted so far in the 10 Turkish regions of Kahramanmaras, Gaziantep, Hatay, Osmaniye, Adiyaman, Malatya, Sanliurfa, Adana, Diyarbakir and Kilis.
In Syria, there were at least 2,992 deaths, of which 1,730 were reported in rebel-held areas in the northwest, according to the "White Helmets" civil defence group, and 1,262 fatalities were registered in government-controlled parts of the country, says the state media, CNN reported.
Since the disaster struck on Monday, 70 countries and 14 international organisations have offered Turkey relief, according to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
However, the international aid situation in Syria is less clear as the Country has been heavily sanctioned due to the ongoing civil war.
So far, the UAE, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Egypt, Algeria and India have sent relief directly to regime-controlled airports, reports CNN.
Others such as the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, China, Canada and the Vatican have pledged aid, though it is unclear if that relief will be sent directly to the regime.
The EU has confirmed it will send 3.5 million euroes in aid to Syria following a government request for assistance, but said the aid must be delivered to both government- and rebel-controlled areas.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Syrian government said it has set up more than a hundred shelters equipped with aid supplies for those affected by the earthquake across government-controlled areas, including in the cities of Aleppo, Hama, Homs, Tartus and Latakia, a coastal city which has the highest number of earthquake deaths counted in Syria so far, and over 100 collapsed buildings.
Meanwhile, Turkish President Erdogan, who visited the quake-hit areas on Wednesday, has defended his government's response, saying it was impossible to prepare for the scale of the disaster after critics claimed the emergency services' response was too slow, the BBC reported.
Addressing reporters in Hatay, he accepted the government had encountered some problems, but said the situation was now "under control".
Rescuers and volunteers are working round the clock to locate the trapped under rubble as the survival rate without food or water drops drastically after the 72nd hour, which is rapidly approaching, reports Xinhua news agency.
Experts have warned that the 72-hour window for rescuing those trapped by the earthquakes may be much smaller than anticipated, given the low temperatures that have swept through the earthquake-hit regions will increase the risk of hypothermia.
The devastating 7.8 tremor struck Turkey's southern province of Kahramanmaras at 4.17 a.m. on Monday morning, which was followed by a 6.4-magnitude temblor a few minutes later in Gaziantep province.
The epicentre of the 7.8-magnitude quake was 23 km east of Nurdagi in Gaziantep, at a depth of 24.1 km.
At around 1.30 p.m, a third 7.5-magnitude tremor hit Kahramanmaras, which officials said was "not an aftershock".
And interestingly, their anxiety is not unfounded as well. The coal-city of Talcher is said to be 'awaiting disaster', with many homes in the town developing cracks and sinkholes developing in several parts of the town.
With rampant mining of coal by the Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) from underneath the Talcher town and alleged faulty sand-filling, the residents are staring at a grim future.
Some residents even fear, if a high magnitude quake hits the region, their fate is all but sealed. Many fear that the town will collapse into the hollow mine underneath the surface like a deck of cards.
As per reports, MCL is mining coal from 13 coal fields in the area, out of which eight are opencast mines and five are underground mines. MCL is supposed to fill sand from the Brahmani River after extracting coal from the underground mines. However, it has been alleged that the sand-filling process is faulty which is resulting in development of cracks on the surface.
A local resident, Balaram Pati said, “God forbid if an earthquake hits Talcher, the town will have a little chance to survive. Both the State and the Centre should take the situation into consideration and make arrangements to fill the underground hollow spots with sand as soon as possible.”
It is pertinent to mention here that the Talcher town is sitting on the earthquake zone number-3.
The miners association blamed MCL and the district administration accusing them of negligence.
“People of Talcher are scared because of cracks in their houses, and sinkholes in their backyard. The district administration is not putting any pressure on the MCL to fill the sand properly after mining coal,” alleged Ranjit Mohapatra, Convenor of Underground Coal Mine Association.
BJP said, despite several protests, the elected representatives are not raising the issue in the Assembly or the Parliament, which is why the MCL is not paying any heed to the complaints of the residents.
The ruling BJD on the other hand has put the blame squarely on the Centre and MCL.
“The Centre should be accountable for this issue. And the MCL should abide by the rules which have been laid out on the agreement with the State government over the coal mining work,” said Talcher MLA, Braja Pradhan.
(Reported By Manil Kumar Maharana, OTV)