In 1996, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit the city of Kobe, killing over 6, 400 people.
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ILF, in partnership with the Adventure Project, scaled the project to Haiti after the earthquake hit.
According to reports only three of the six Fukushima reactors were in operation when the earthquake hit.
When the 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit southwest China on May 12, 2008, Beichuan county was among the hardest hit.
At least 65 people have been killed and hundreds injured after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit the city at lunchtime.
President Barack Obama's oldest daughter, Malia, age 13, was on a school trip in Oaxaca when the earthquake hit.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said Twitter users were the first to alert others last summer after an earthquake hit Southern California.
China's Shanghai Composite slipped 0.1% after an earthquake hit the country's Sichuan province, killing at least 157 people and injuring thousands more.
On April 9, a magnitude-6.3 earthquake hit southern Iran, near the Bushehr nuclear-power plant, killing 37 people and injuring more than 800.
On April 9th a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit southern Iran, near the Bushehr nuclear-power plant, killing 37 people and injuring more than 800.
The tsunami that followed the earthquake hit several hundred kilometers of coastline.
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After retracing its 25 percent decline in the next twelve months since the earthquake hit, the index continued its decent to new lows.
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The other market in focus on Monday was China, where stocks were slightly lower after an earthquake hit Sichuan province over the weekend.
Homes were damaged and at least five people have been reported dead after a tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake hit the Solomon Islands.
They were adding the finishing touches when the earthquake hit.
Recently, an earthquake hit near Washington, D.
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It appears to be the most devastating earthquake to hit China in more than three decades.
The earthquake that hit Kobe in 1995 demonstrated in a practical way the shortcomings of officialdom.
The confusion was heightened by a magnitude 5.3 earthquake that hit nearby Chiba Prefecture at 1:42 p.m.
"This earthquake will hit us again, " Kent Yu, an engineer and chairman of the commission, told lawmakers.
Fars News Agency said it was the largest earthquake to hit the region in at least 40 years.
Fars News Agency reported that it was the largest earthquake to hit the region in at least 40 years.
Then, on October 8th, Kashmir bore the brunt of the worst earthquake to hit South Asia in a century.
But what really haunts the survivors of the latest disaster is the Irpinia earthquake that hit Campania and Basilicata in 1980.
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The other market in focus on Monday was China, where stocks were reacting to an earthquake that hit Sichuan province over the weekend.
Others jokingly compared the news to other signs of the apocalypse, including the rare earthquake that hit the East Coast earlier this week.
Chinese stocks were also reacting to an earthquake that hit Sichuan province over the weekend, with gains in companies that could benefit from reconstruction spending.
The 9.0-magnitude earthquake which hit Japan on 11 March 2011 and the massive tsunami it generated killed almost 19, 000 people and triggered a major nuclear accident.
It might also undermine efforts to rebuild nearby Haiti just 120 miles (193km) away by boat given the links between Jamaica's gangs and crime in its earthquake-hit neighbour.
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