A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake has killed at least 77 people in Ecuador, Vice-President Jorge Glas says.A state of emergency is declared in six provinces and the National Guard is mobilised.

Female students of the nursing institute attached to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College start vacating their hostel two days after the authorities shut the institute due to cracks that developed on the building following an earthquake.

It is with a heavy heart that we offer our sincerest condolences to the families of those who have lost their dear ones during a devastating earthquake in southwestern Japan.

The Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) has completed a primary inspection and identified nine buildings in different areas of the

A powerful earthquake has struck near the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto, a day after a tremor there killed at least nine people. The magnitude-7.1 quake at a depth of 10km (6 miles) hit at 01:25 on Saturday (16:25 GMT on Friday). A second - smaller - quake hit later. A tsunami warning was issued, but has now been lifted.

An eight-month-old baby has been rescued from a flattened house with no visible injuries after an earthquake in Japan.

Chittagong Development Authority identifies three of nine buildings, which tilted during yesterday’s earthquake, as “dangerous”.

50 people are injured while rushing out of RMG factories in EPZ and Oxygen areas and four buildings tilted in Chittagong after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar.

Mild tremors were felt in Dhaka and other parts of Bangladesh this afternoon – as result of a 5.0 magnitude earthquake in India’s Lakhipur.

Japan is marking the fifth anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that left more than 18,000 dead or missing.

A 7.9 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of western Indonesia, USGS reports, no immediate reports of damage.

The authorities in Nepal are to extend for free permits for foreigners prevented from climbing Mount Everest by last year's earthquakes.

Cliffs have collapsed in New Zealand during an earthquake in the city of Christchurch on the South Island.

An eight-year-old girl is pulled alive from the rubble of a building in Taiwan more than 60 hours after it is destroyed by an earthquake.

An investigation has been launched into the construction of a Taiwanese apartment complex toppled by Saturday's earthquake.

A six-month-old baby girl is rescued from the ruins of an apartment building in Taiwan, 30 hours after it is brought down by an earthquake.

Rescuers are searching the rubble of a high-rise apartment block in southern Taiwan, after an earthquake that kills at least 14 people.

In the early morning of January 4, a strong earthquake jolted Bangladesh. Experts said that there is a chance that by 2020, a strong earthquake will strike our country.

The damage of utility networks and fire is going to be the main causes of casualties if any major earthquakes strike the Dhaka city, experts say.

In the wake of yet another earth-shattering earthquake and amidst threats of even more devastating ones in the near future...