Earthquake

Following a powerful earthquake in Japan's Greater Tokyo, 32 people have reportedly been injured, said media reports on October 8. Furthermore, reports said that three of them are in critical condition. Earlier, an earthquake magnitude of 5.9 on the Richter scale struck the capital city of Japan on the evening of October 7. However, Japan is very close to the Ring of fire that usually causes powerful earthquakes here.

Earthquake struck southern Pakistan early in the morning of October 7 while people were sleeping. It killed nearly 20 people, and more than 200 were wounded. Many of the casualties were killed when roofs and walls fell following the 5.7 magnitude earthquake that hit the Balochistan region, with a power-outage requiring health-personnel to treat the injured with flashlights. The most hit location was Harnai and was also felt in Quetta.

National Center of Seismology (NCS) on October 4 informed that Arunachal Pradesh's district Basar received an earthquake of 4.4 magnitudes. The earthquake (32.41 Latitude, 92.73 Longitude) had a depth of 106km NNW of Basar. NCS informed about the occurance over a tweet along with all the necessary information. Moreover, Arunachal Pradesh received earthquakes twice in the month of October last year.

Over 5000 people were evacuated on Spain's La Palma island, part of the Canary Islands archipelago, before the volcanic eruption on September 19. Reportedly, an earthquake magnitude of 4.2 also jolted the island before the eruption and the last eruption was reported here in 1971. Meanwhile, the president of La Palama island, Mariano Hernandez said, ''There are no immediate reports of death but the lava flows made him concerned".

Earthquake hits Joshimath city in Chamoli District of Uttarakhand on Sept 11 at around 5:58 AM. The city was hit with a magnitude of 4.6 on Richter's scale, at a depth of 5km. According to the National Center of Seismology's report, the epicenter of the quake was located 31km southwest of Joshimath. However, India, Nepal & China were among the affected countries.