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A 7.1-magnitude quake struck Christchurch, New Zealand's second largest city, earlier (September 4), severing many wires, cracking roads and destroying many buildings.

Today New Zealand's Christchurch city is shaken by a 5.1-magnitude seismic. This is just one of more than 280 aftershocks of the September 4 earthquake.

A strong earthquake last night

AP on October 30 led sources from the Japan Meteorological Agency, saying that in Kagosima and Amani Islands, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Japan.

Early on October 15, a 6-magnitude earthquake rocked the Pacific region near Samoa, which has suffered a strong earthquake that caused devastating tsunamis two weeks ago.

A 6.1-magnitude quake struck this morning, causing Indonesia's Sulawesi island to shake - the US Geological Survey said.

On the morning of October 8, four earthquakes of magnitude 7.1-7.8 on the Richter scale shook the area between Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands, the South Pacific in just 70

Last night, a 6.2-magnitude quake struck the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia but there was no tsunami warning and no information was available on the damage and casualties.

At least 1,100 people have been killed by a massive earthquake in Sumatra, Indonesia, while thousands of others are still buried under rubble.

Last night, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake shook the southern Philippines. Hours earlier, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake also occurred in eastern Indonesia - the US Geological Survey