earthquake

LAHJ, March 12 (YPA) - An earthquake struck some areas of Yafea and Halimin in Lahj province, southern Yemen, at 3:00 pm on Sunday. The shaking was felt by the residents of Abyan, Bayda and Dhalea provinces. Residents expected the tremor to…

MUSCAT, Feb. 26 (YPA) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 on the Richter scale and a depth of 10 Kilometers jolted off the coast of Sur, the Sultanate of Oman, during the past few hours on Sunday. YPA

SYRIA, Feb. 19 (YPA) - The governor of Latakia governorate in Syria, Eng. Amer Hilal, praised on Sunday the Yemeni people's solidarity with the Syrian people in the ordeal of the earthquake that struck the country recently. This came during…

MOSCOW, Feb. 19 (YPA) - The Russian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned on Sunday the Zionist raids on Damascus and its suburbs last night and considered them a flagrant violation of the rules of international law. Maria Zakharova, a…

NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (YPA) - UN Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, on Sunday acknowledged the organization's failure to help thousands of Syrian civilians, and its inability to deliver aid to those…

ANKARA, Feb. 09 (YPA) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Thursday that the death toll as a result of the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria has risen to about 20,000. Erdogan said in a press statement…

GENEVA, Feb. 08 (YPA) - The World Health Organization declared a level three emergency due to the repercussions of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey. This comes amid fears of an outbreak of epidemics because of it, especially in northern…

SIRYA, Feb. 07 (YPA) - The residents of Aleppo, Latakia, and Homs governorates in the northern part of Syria felt an aftershock on Tuesday evening, the Syrian News Agency, SANA, said. Rescue operations are continuing in Syria and Turkey,…

SYRIA, Feb. 07 (YPA) - A number of prisoners in a Syrian prison escaped in the northwest of the country, taking advantage of the cracks that occurred in the walls of the facility following the devastating earthquake that occurred on Monday…

ANKARA, Feb. 06 (YPA)— The death toll from the earthquake that struck at dawn Monday in southern Turkey has risen to 1,014, in addition to the injuries of 2,323 people in several provinces, according to the Turkish authorities. According to…