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DAVAO CITY, Philippines-A 5.1 magnitude earthquake Struck off in General Santos City at 12:19 a.m. Saturday, hardly 8 hours after one more moderate earthquake hit Southern Mindanao, the United States Geological Survey statement said.

There were no instant reports of damage or injuries from the tectonic quake that had a depth of 53.7 kilometers. The hottest jolt was traced 74 kilometers east-southeast of General Santos City & was felt as much as Cotabato City & Davao city.

The Philippines sits on the supposed Pacific Ring of Fire & has daily bouts with earthquakes, some of which are also weak to be felt. Earthquakes in Mindanao & in other parts of the country are usually caused by the faction of the tectonic plates.

One of the deadliest quakes took place in Central & Western Mindanao in August 1976. The magnitude 7.6 jerk started a tsunami that killed more than 3,000 people & flattened millions of pesos in properties.

A moderate 5.1 earthquake has hit the southwest region of China & missing 23 people injured as more residential homes were collapsed.

An earthquake calculated at 5.1-magnitude struck the southwest region of Yunnan in China On Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake’s strength was measured at 24.4 miles & it was positioned 60 miles of northwest of Kunming & 1,300 miles southwest of Beijing.

Local authorities publicized there were 23 people wounded as dozens of houses collapsed but no damages to heritage sites have been reported. The Yunnan Provincial Red Cross humanity & provincial authorities have sent aid efforts & aid supplies, containing quilts, tents, clothes & extra vital items to the area, reports said.

WASHINGTON: A team of earthquake engineers has out information on the damage done in Haiti after the 7.2 quake on January 12. “The need of the people combined with the density of population & more building codes resulted in the extensive damage,” told Eberhard.

A major report is that much of the loss of human life might have been prevented by using earthquake-resistant models & construction, plus improved quality control in concrete & masonry work. The creators of the report suggest that simple & cost-effective earthquake production be highlighted in Haiti’s rebuilding effort.

They also gathered more seismic data similar to Earthquake monitoring stations were not having in Haiti. Identifying the location will help what caused the earthquake and forecast the likelihood of future quakes in the area.

The team submits a ground assessment of places that were most evil hit, including the port in Port-au-Prince, the cathedral, the National Palace, the Hotel Montana & the Union School, attended by children of more nationalities. A review of 107 buildings in a heavily damaged portion of downtown Port-au-Prince found that 28 percent had distorted & a 3rd would require repairs.

RESTON, Va. -the threat of additional damaging earthquakes in Haiti will remain for the next year. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) issued an update to its Jan. 21, 2010, statement, which includes the aftershock probabilities for the next 30-to-90-day period and for the overall year.

U.S. Geological Survey Director Marcia McNutt asked the team of USGS earthquake scientists to continue to provide an evaluation of the earthquakes facing Haiti now and in the future. Here is the updated statement in its entirety from the USGS:This statement revises and updates the statement issued by the USGS on Jan. 21, 2010.

The magnitude-7 earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010, near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has generated a sharp increase in concerns about the potential for future earthquakes in Haiti and the surrounding region. These concerns extend to understanding the causes of the earthquake hazard and learning what can be done to ensure seismic safety in the future. The purpose of this statement is to convey our best judgment on these subjects.

The president of Haiti has claimed the death toll from last month’s devastating earthquake could reach 300,000, as salvage operations continue to pull bodies from the rubble. The Caribbean nation is still desperately attempting to deal with the aftermath of a 7.0-magnitude quake which struck on January 12th and left millions homeless and in urgent need of aid.

Speaking to a meeting of Latin American and Caribbean leaders at the weekend, the Haiti president Rene Preval said: “You have seen the images you are familiar with the pictures. More than 200,000 bodies were collected on the streets without counting those that are still under the rubble.

“We might reach 300,000 people.” If the official death toll was to reach that level it would make the earthquake one of the worst natural disasters in modern history, significantly worse than the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 which left 200,000 dead.

Two small earthquakes have currently been reported in Faulkner County. At 8:44 p.m. on Wednesday, a U.S. Geological Survey seismometer recorded a magnitude-2.5 earthquake 4 miles northwest of Greenbrier & 3 miles south of Twin Groves.

At 2:43 p.m. on Thursday, seismometers recorded a magnitude-1.7 earthquake 3 miles east of Greenbrier & 6 miles south of Guy. USGS recorded the depth of Wednesday night’s earthquake was about 2.7 miles; Thursday’s earthquake was approximately 7 miles deep.

A boy from Haiti whose leg was crushed previous month in the earthquake is now out of surgery. Doctors at Shriners hospital in St. Louis are operational to save the leg of 11-year-old Jean Patrickson. Doctors in Haiti required amputating the boy’s leg so he was brought to St. Louis by a Missouri charity.

BEIJING: A magnitude 6.5 earthquake jolted the boundary area among China and Russia Thursday morning, according to China Earthquake Networks Centre (CNEC). The CNEC tell that the quake struck at 9.13 am at strength of 540 km. “I hardly felt any tremors when the earthquake struck,” said Jin Jianghu, a resident in Yanji city in the northeastern area of Jilin.

The province’s emergency office said Xinhua it had not received any information of casualties. There was also no immediate information of damages or casualties from the neighboring Heilongjiang province which also limits Russia. The epicentre of the quake was located 110 km south-west of Russia’s Vladivostok.

The US Geological Survey put the magnitude at 6.7; addition that it occurred at a depth of 562 km. Officials in Vladivostok said there had been no wounded or damage on Russian territory. No information was available from North Korea. The quake’s epicentre was situated 111 km north-east of Chongjin, the Stalinist state’s 3rd -largest city.

Two seismic experts from the Oakland office of AMEC Geomatrix, an engg & project management company are helping prepare an exact report on the effects of the Jan 12 earthquake in Haiti.

Donald Wells, a geologist by AMEC, & Jim French, a geotechnical engineer with the firm, traveled to Haiti to research as part of an 11-member group organized by the National Science Foundation. The team’s head is Ellen Rathje, a professor from the University of Texas.

“We worked in the port region to collect the damage, in Port-au-Prince to catalog building damage, & further west from Leogane next to the coast & inland area near the fault that ruptured,” told Wells.

“The damage to structures & lives clearly was a result of cheap design and construction,” French said.
“We have the facts to design structures to survive the levels of ground shaking skilled in Haiti, but this facts was not put into practice in most of the collapsed buildings.” The group’s study will be used for the U.S. National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - 100s of houses that survived Haiti’s quake still stand empty even as quake victims worried for shelter crowd the streets. The cause is fear: No one is quite sure they can survive another quake. At least 54 aftershocks have shuddered during Haiti’s shattered capital while the Jan 12 quake take more than 200,000 people life.

Seismologists say that more negative aftershocks are likely and that there is even a chance of one larger quake in the capital of 3 million people. A magnitude-7.4 quake that takes more than 18,000 people in northwestern Turkey in 1999 was followed 3 months afterward by a magnitude-7.2 quake just 60 miles from the first epicenter.

“There are so many examples like that of 2 important earthquakes following each other,” said Eric Calais, a geophysicist at Purdue University. Still Haitian President Rene Preval is afraid to sleep inside. He said he was staying with friends until he can move to an earthquake-resistant arrangement. ‘Like you, I am nervous,’ Preval said.

The past, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said his state would spend up to $12 million to build Haiti’s govt a short-term base to restore official buildings damaged in the quake. The U.S. Geological Survey has estimated that there is a 90 % possibility of at least 1 more magnitude-5 quake in the upcoming month, a 15 % possibility of one of magnitude-6 or greater, as well as a 2 % possibility of a shock as huge, or larger, than the Jan. 12 quake.

The dead body of a fourth Lynn University student was recovered in the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Haiti, school officials said Sunday. Britney Gengel, a sophomore at the institution in Boca Raton, Fla., and 3 other students and 2 faculty members were unaccounted for after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti previous month.

The U.S. State Department has now found the remains of every 6 people who were staying at the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince while the quake struck. Gengel and the others were part of a bigger group on a humanitarian mission in Haiti. 8 other members of that team were evacuated from the country & returned to Florida.

“While at Lynn, Britney triumphed academically & publicly and was a right motivation to the Lynn community & the community at large,” Lynn University President Kevin Ross said in a report out Sunday.

“She was a beautiful young woman who gave her life helping others,” he said. “We will miss her awfully.” School officials said on Saturday that one of its faculty members, Richard Bruno, 59, had been officially stated dead. Bruno, an assistant professor in Lynn’s College of Liberal Education, joined the university 4 years ago.