A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Cuba on Sunday, causing material damage in several regions as the island continues to recover from widespread blackouts and the impact of ...

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which was destroyed during the 526 earthquake in Antioch, by artist Louis Francois Cassas (Public domain) The Middle East has suffered a large number of quakes across the centuries, including some ...

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Even before the earthquake the situation in much of the ... However, BBC Monitoring's Hesham Shawish, a Middle East specialist, says this is not enough to deal with the scale of the destruction.

An earthquake rocked eastern Cuba on Sunday, shaking buildings in Santiago de Cuba, the island's second-largest city, and the surrounding countryside.

Volunteers prepare graves for earthquake victims in the rebel-held ... crossing from Iraq into the largely Kurdish areas of north-eastern Syria. This week, Syrian opposition groups announced ...

The fears of the people of the Levant that one day the earth will give way beneath their feet are well-founded and the region is completely unprepared, experts say ...