In 2010, the team helped rescue more than 100 people after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck Haiti.
Early Thursday, an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck off the same coast.
The first earthquake, with a magnitude of 6.4, hit Saturday at 4:53 p.m. local time, 37 miles northeast of Tabriz, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, which measured 11 aftershocks.
The first earthquake, with a magnitude of 6.4, hit Saturday at 4:53 p.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, which said the epicenter was 23 kilometers (14 miles) southwest of Ahar.
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Exercise IOWave11 re-enacted the 26 December 2004 earthquake event, with a 9.2 magnitude earthquake off the North West coast of Sumatra (Indonesia), followed by an ocean-wide tsunami.
On Thursday, the Yunnan Province of China was hit by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake with over 250 injured a few dozen people found dead in the rubble.
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South Korean, U.S. and Japanese seismic monitoring agencies said they detected an earthquake in North Korea with a magnitude between 4.9 and 5.2.
Dozens of schools collapsed in the magnitude-8 earthquake, with thousands of children dying.
Imagine if India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Sumatra all had nuclear power plants along their shores, when the 2004 9.2 magnitude earthquake and tsunami, with waves up to 98 feet hit those shores.
The scenario established for the "Exercise IOWAVE 11" re-enacts the events of 26 December 2004, with a 9.2 magnitude earthquake off the North West coast of Sumatra (Indonesia), followed by an ocean-wide tsunami.
The quake struck at 08:02 local time (00:02 GMT) on Saturday, with the China Earthquake Administration categorising it as a 7.0 magnitude, and the US Geological Survey (USGS) reporting it as 6.6.
Saturday's earthquake which hit just after 8 a.m. with a magnitude of 7.0, according to Chinese authorities wasn't far from the epicenter of a 2008 quake that killed more than 80, 000 people and raised questions among many in the Chinese public about the ability of Beijing to respond to crisis.
Two years ago, when China was hit by a magnitude 8.0 earthquake in the Sichuan province, Japanese rescuers helped with clean up and rescue.
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Earlier optimism was in line with a brief rally in GPS shares until news of another 7.4-magnitude earthquake in Japan knocked the wind out of a U.S. stock market rally.
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Eastern Canada has a relatively low rate of earthquake activity, according to Natural Resources Canada, but there have been large earthquakes before, with about four exceeding magnitude 4 per year.
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