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Due to the 8.9 quake and the tsunami that stroke Japan, Google launched its Person Finder tool to help people look for missing friends and family on the web. The search engine had already done this when Chile and Haiti earthquakes happened. The application allows people to report...

In the province of Santa Elena, in the Ecuadorian coast, the citizens ask authorities to save them. Several military and civilian trucks carry people while the soldier, with a human chain, contains the desperate mass of people that has gathered in the sides of the road to get on...

Japanese defence ministry officials told the Kyodo news agency that 1,800 homes in Fukushima prefecture have been destroyed. More than 1,000 people probably died in the massive earthquake and tsunami disaster that devastated parts of Japan on Friday, Kyodo news agency said. Some...

Inhabitants of Santa Cruz, San Cristobal, and Isabela islands were evacuated to safe areas since 06:00 due to the tsunami warning in the Ecuadorian coasts. In Santa Cruz, the evacuation to the top of the Bellavista parish (10 minutes from Puerto Ayora) was done in order....

Today, Karangetang Volcano erupted after the devastating earthquake of 8.9 degrees that slamed northeastern Japan. The volcano began to spew clouds of gas and lava down its slopes. Indonesian authorities have begun evacuating residents living in villages near the volcano. So far...

The quake that stroke Japan’s North East today (8.9 degrees on the Richter scale) has caused tsunami waves to hit Hawaii. Kauai Island was the first one that received the impact, according to reports from the Tsunami Warning Center Pacific in Hawaii, the tsunami waves quickly...

Due to the earthquake of 8.9 on the Richter Scale that slamed Japan yesterday afternoon, the Galapagos Islands (1,000 km from the coast of America) prepares for an evacuation of the entire village. The earthquake warning extends from the Mexican coast to Chile, according to the...

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa signed a 60-day state of emergency  decree on Friday. This decree orders the evacuation of the coastal areas until there is an updated  report of the situation today at 17:00, because it is the estimated time when the tsunami could reach the...

The quake, which struck at 15:00 in Japan, reached at 8.9 on the Richter scale and is the largest recorded earthquake in Japan in 140 years. At the moment, according to the latest reports of the local police, 288 people are dead and more than 349 are missing. The quake triggered...

The new Forbes list has been published and it reveals the names of the billionaires with assets superior to $ 1,000 billion. There are 1,210 billionaires in the world, and they come from 54 countries, 100 of these are Chinese and Russian tycoons, in fact, 79 of the more than $...