Minor Tsunami

A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Tuesday triggering a tsunami warning and sending residents fleeing from their homes but causing only minor damage and injuring one person, authorities said.

Facebook is failing to rein in a "tsunami" of hate posts inflaming ethnic tensions in India's Assam state, campaign group Avaaz said on Wednesday, with content about "criminals", "rapists", "terrorists" and "dogs" shared almost 100,000 times.

A minor tsunami was monitored in northern Japan early on Friday after a powerful quake struck off Chile, Japanese authorities said.

A minor tsunami hit the coast of northern Japan on Tuesday morning after an advisory was issued following a 6.8-magnitude earthquake in northern Japan, the USGS and the Japanese meteorological agency said.

Small tsunami waves hit northern Japan early on Thursday following a powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake thousands of kilometres away across the Pacific Ocean in Chile after officials issued an evacuation advisory for certain areas.

Two minor earthquakes jolted Gujarat and Maharashtra today. While a quake measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale struck Rann of Kutch in Gujarat at 9 am, a 4.9-magnitude quake shook parts of Maharashtra including Mumbai, Pune and Satara two hours later.

A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Tuesday triggering a tsunami warning and sending residents fleeing from their homes but causing only minor damage and injuring one person, authorities said.

Facebook is failing to rein in a "tsunami" of hate posts inflaming ethnic tensions in India's Assam state, campaign group Avaaz said on Wednesday, with content about "criminals", "rapists", "terrorists" and "dogs" shared almost 100,000 times.

A minor tsunami was monitored in northern Japan early on Friday after a powerful quake struck off Chile, Japanese authorities said.

A minor tsunami hit the coast of northern Japan on Tuesday morning after an advisory was issued following a 6.8-magnitude earthquake in northern Japan, the USGS and the Japanese meteorological agency said.

Small tsunami waves hit northern Japan early on Thursday following a powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake thousands of kilometres away across the Pacific Ocean in Chile after officials issued an evacuation advisory for certain areas.

Two minor earthquakes jolted Gujarat and Maharashtra today. While a quake measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale struck Rann of Kutch in Gujarat at 9 am, a 4.9-magnitude quake shook parts of Maharashtra including Mumbai, Pune and Satara two hours later.