Strong 6.0 magnitude quake hits Mexico: USGS (AFP)
Quake shakes Italian town hosting G8 summit (Reuters) Reuters - A strong tremor struck on Friday the Italian town that will host next week's G8 summit of world leaders, shaking buildings, setting off car alarms and startling residents who lived through April's deadly quake. Italy hopes for quake reconstruction pledges at G8 (AP) AP - Italy is using the upcoming Group of Eight summit in quake-devastated central Italy to encourage participating countries to adopt monuments damaged in the temblor and pledge to help restore them. Quake jolts China's Sichuan, damaging houses (Reuters)
Series of quakes shake Taipei buildings (AFP)
PNG 6.7-magnitude quake triggers local tsunami warning: US (AFP)
Magnitude 6.7 quake hits off Papua New Guinea (Reuters) Reuters - A magnitude 6.7 quake hit off Papua New Guinea's island of New Ireland, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Tuesday. Strong quake hits off northern Japan (AFP)
Quake jolts Anchorage, Alaska, but damage minimal (AP)
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AFP - A strong earthquake measuring a magnitude of six shook Panama early Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of casuaties or damage, the US Geological Survey reported.
AFP - An earthquake measuring 6.0 in magnitude shook northwestern Mexico early Friday but caused no damage.
Reuters - A small earthquake on Tuesday damaged thousands of houses in China's Sichuan province, where an 8.0 magnitude quake last year killed more than 80,000 people.
AFP - A series of earthquakes including one with a magnitude of 5.6 rocked Taiwan on Sunday, the Seismology Centre said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
AFP - An undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 struck off the remote New Ireland area of Papua New Guinea on Wednesday, triggering a local tsunami warning, US scientists said.
AFP - A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck off northern Japan on Tuesday, the meteorological agency said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties and no tsunami alert was issued. seismograph
AP - A strong earthquake jolted Alaska's most populous region Monday, sending residents and office workers diving under desks and huddling in doorways but causing almost no damage.
