Earthquakes

Magnitude 5+ Earthquakes – Global

6.0 Earthquake hits the southern east Pacific rise.

5.5 Earthquake hits Pakistan.

5.5 Earthquake hits Tonga.

5.3 Earthquake hits Pakistan.

5.0 Earthquake hits the Bonin Islands off Japan.

5.0 Earthquake hits northeastern Sakha, Russia.

5.0 Earthquake hits the Bougainville region, Papua New Guinea.

5.0 Earthquake hits north of Halmahera, Indonesia.

Pakistan Earthquake

Rescuers struggled Wednesday to help thousands of people injured and left homeless after their houses collapsed in the massive 7.7 earthquake in southwestern Pakistan, as the death toll rose overnight to 210.

375 people have been injured. In Pakistani cities such as Karachi along the Arabian Sea and Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, people ran into the streets in fear, praying for their lives when the quake hit.

Most of the victims were killed when their houses collapsed. Walls of the mud brick houses had collapsed, and people were gathered outside because they had no homes to sleep in. Baluchistan is Pakistan's largest province but also the least populated and most impoverished.

The quake created a new island in the sea just off the country's southern coast. The earthquake was so powerful that it caused the seabed to rise and create a small, mountain-like island about 600 meters (yards) off Pakistan's Gwadar coastline in the Arabian Sea.

Tremors were felt as far away as the Indian capital of New Delhi, 1,200 kilometers (about 740 miles) to the east, where buildings shook, as well as the sprawling port city of Karachi in Pakistan.