A strong earthquake shakes vans back and forth in Osaka, Western Japan. Source - @NewsKali

A quake measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale was felt across Napier last night.

A local tsunami alert has been lifted after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Sumatra, Indonesia.

Tsunami-wrecked houses in Samoa are being rebuilt on higher ground - but without protection against cyclones or earthquakes, engineers say.

California geology officials have released an updated seismic activity map that they hope will improve earthquake preparedness.

A woman who was disgruntled when an Iranian cleric preached that female cleavage causes earthquakes has caused her own social networking phenomenon.