A powerful 7.9-magnitude earthquake shook Peru’s coast near the capital, toppling buildings, setting off landslides and killing at least 337 people and injuring more than 1,300 others, Peru’s National Institute for Civil Defence said.

A powerful 7.9-magnitude earthquake shook Peru’s coast near the capital, toppling buildings, setting off landslides and killing at least 115 people and injuring more than 700 others, Deputy Health Minister Jose Calderon said today.

Cold, cloudy weather and weary survivors of the October 8 quake today greeted US Vice President Dick Cheney on his visit to Pakistan-administered Kashmir, where millions of homeless survivors braced themselves for the harsh winter.

QUAKE survivors marked a normally joyous Muslim festival with sombre prayers in debris-strewn fields and visits to the graves of victims yesterday, as Pakistan’s president deferred a key purchase of US fighter jets to focus on reconstruction.

December’s great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake – the most powerful in more than 40 years and the trigger of a devastating tsunami – shook the ground everywhere on Earth’s surface, scientists have found.

A minor earthquake that shook the New York City area rattled the nerves of some residents still jumpy in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.