5.2 quake hit the Baoshan area in Yunnnan province

5.1 quake in Tibet

6.4-magnitude quake jolts Japan's northeast Fukushima Prefecture

Strong quake hits northeastern Japan

7,500 earthquakes hit shattered New Zealand city

5.0-magnitude quake hits Kermadec Islands

6.2-magnitude earthquake hits Alaska

5.5 quake jolts Japan's Kanto region

Magnitude-5.2 quake jolts NE Taiwan

Tsunami-weary Japan hit by strong quake

Magnitude 7.8 quake hits off New Zealand

Floods hit wide areas of northern Philippines

Downpour hits southeast China

M5.2 earthquake hits Yushu

Ghostly mirage appears over Chinese river

6.1 quake hits off Solomons, no tsunami alert

6.3 magnitude earthquake hits Chile

5.2-magnitude quake hits Yunnan

Millions hit by flood havoc in China

Strong shallow quake strikes off E. Indonesia

M5.5 aftershock hits New Zealand's Christchurch

Torrential rains leave 36 dead, 21 missing in central China province

5.3-magnitude quake hits China's Xinjiang

Heavy rain triggers floods in north China

16,000 relocated in flood-hit central China

5.0-magnitude aftershock rocked the quake-hit New Zealand

4.5-magnitude earthquake hits Xinjiang

4.5-magnitude earthquake hits Xinjiang

5.2-magnitude earthquake hits Taiwan

5.3-magnitude quake hits Luzon, Philippines

6.0-magnitude quake hits near east coast of Honshu, Japan

1 dies in 6-magnitude quake in Turkey

M5.0 quake hits Sichuan-Gansu juncture region

5.2 quake strikes off Indonesia

Two quakes in Spain kill 10, injure dozens

Moderate quake rocks E Indonesia

Magnitude 7.1 Quake Strikes Off Vanuatu

5.7 magnitude quake hits east coast of Honshu, Japan

6.1 quake hits off east coast of Honshu, Japan

Drought hits parts of South, Central China

Magnitude-5.7 earthquake hits northern Taiwan

6.2-magnitude quake hits near S.E coast of Taiwan

Sandstorms hit northwest China, damage crops

Magnitude 5.7 quake strikes Mexico west coast

Aftershock follows strong quake in Indonesia

Continuous snowfall disturbs traffic in NE China

Storms strike southern China

6.0-magnitude quake hits eastern Indonesia

6.9-magnitude quake hits Solomon Islands

Strong quake shakes buildings in Tokyo

6.6-quake hits off New Zealand

Sky clouded by sand in N China as cold front nears

M5.9 quake hits off coast of Nicaragua

6.1-magnitude undersea quake strikes off northeast Japan

C. China's Hunan fights against drought

Magnitude 6.6-quake jolts Japan coast

5.2-magnitude quake jolts Philippines

Arctic ozone layer experiences record loss

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twin earthquakes struck Japan and Mexico two hours apart

Japan quake moved sea bed 24 metres

5.8-magnitude quake hits Nias region, Indonesia

Heavy snow hits Urumqi

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5.7-magnitude quake rocks Nepal-India border

World sees super moon Saturday night

The moon rises above a pagoda in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, March 19, 2011. The world saw a super moon on Saturday night as the moon passed the earth at the distance of around 360,000 kilometers, the closest in the past 19 years.

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Strong earthquake 6.0 hits Greek islands of Crete, Karpathos

5.5-magnitude quake hits New Ireland region, Papua New Guinea

Earthquake strikes south Java

6.0-magnitude quake jolts Chile

6.2-magnitude quake hits northeastern Japan

Flooding in Thailand kills 21, strands thousand

6.5-magnitude quake strikes off Honshu, tsunami alert issued

5.9-MAGNITUDE QUAKE HITS FIJI REGION

Heavy sandstorm sweeps across Kuwait

Two large quakes with a magnitude of 7.0 struck near north Thailand's border with Myanmar and Laos

Earthquake with preliminary magnitude of 7.0 strikes Myanmar

6.6 magnitude earthquake in a east from Iwaki, Honshu, Japan

6.4 magnitude earthquake struck near the east coast of Honshu, Japan

Sandstorms to whip north China

magnitude of 5.7 shook buildings in Manila

Sydney hit by flash flooding amid heavy rain

5.2-magnitude earthquake jolts off Taiwan coast

Strong sandstorm hits Qaidam Basin in Qinghai Province

4.5-magnitude earthquake hits off northeast Hualien

Heavy snow falls in quake-hit areas in Japan

Snowstorm hits NW China's Xinjiang

small earthquake shakes Quebec, Ontario in Canada

Heavy snow hits quake-hit Miyagi and Iwate in Japan

magnitude 6.1 and 6.2 strike areas south of Tokyo.

Cold front to hit eastern, southern parts of China

5.7-magnitude quake hits near east coast of Honshu, Japan

5.8-magnitude quake strikes off Japan, no tsunami alert

Quake moves Japan closer to the US

Quake moved Japan by 2.4 metres

Powerful 6.8 magnitude aftershock hits eastern coast of Japan

7.9-magnitude quake hits Japan

4.2-magnitude earthquake jolts Wuzhai County, north China's Shanxi Province

Strong earthquake hits Bali Sea

Earthquake kills at least 25 in SW China's Yunnan province

Floods swamp cyclone-hit areas of Australia

Heavy snow hits Greece

7.2 earthquake hits off coast of Japan

Thousand battle forest fire in SW China

UK's retreating coastline hit by rising sea levels, erosion

Tornado slams US town, downed tree kills mother

6.6-magnitude quake hits South Sandwich Islands region

4.2-magnitude earthquake jolts north China county

6.2-magnitude quake hits Tarapaca, Chile

5.2-magnitude quake strikes Japan

Nearly 400 dead, missing in New Zealand quake

4.7-magnitude quake hits Manila

High winds, heavy dust storms close Israeli airports

New Zealand quake kills at least 65

Magnitude-6.2 earthquake rocks east coast of Russia's Kamchatka

Heavy snow paralyzes traffic in Tibet

5.5-magnitude quake hits Taiwan

Earthquake of 6.8 magnitude hits Chile

6.1-magnitude quake shakes S Siberia

Icelandic volcano 'set to erupt'

Drought hits C. China

The dried-up riverbed of Xiangjiang River is seen in Changsha, capital of Central China’s Hunan province, Feb 8, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua]

Embattled Australia hit by fires

Torrential downpours pile misery on Australia

Floods wreak havoc in southern Malaysia

Heavy snow blankets Dallas, Texas

Amazon fuels global warming after droughts

Cyclone Yasi threatens 10,000 Townsville homes on Australia's north-eastern coast

Blizzard hits Chicago area, over 1,300 flights canceled

3-month northern China drought forecast to last

5.3-magnitude quake hits sea off Taiwan

Japan volcano erupts again for 6th time

Fog closes airport in SW China

SW China 4.8-magnitude quake affects 80,600 people, damages 678 homes

Dozens taken ill as heatwave continues in Australia's New South Wales

Storm threatens 100 million in US with snow, ice, cold

Three dead, thousands displaced in Malaysia floods

2.79 m people suffer from drought in China

Water levels in Johor rivers up, 3 burst their banks

Rain causes flash floods in the east spore

Cyclones threatening W. Australia

Indonesia's Mount Bromo splashes lava to 200 meters high

New York battered by record amount of snow in January

Strong earthquake jolts Iran

Magnitude 5.9 quake rocks New Zealand's Taupo region

Volcano erupts in southern Japan

An aerial view shows Shinmoedake peak erupting between Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures January 27, 2011. Ash and rocks fell across a wide swathe of southern Japan straddling the prefectures of Miyazaki and Kagoshima on Thursday, as one of Mount Kirishima's many calderas erupted, prompting authorities to raise alert levels and call on for an evacuation of all residents within 2 km (1.2 miles) radius of the volcano. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

Strong quake hits western Indonesia

6.1 magnitude quake hits Tajikistan

Moderate 5.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Fiji

Moderate 5.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Tonga

Shandong hit by worst dry spell in 60 yrs

Drought worsens in east China province

SW China's Wanshan witnesses heavy snowfall

Shanghai warns on possible further snowstorm

At least 7 killed, hundreds injured in Iranian earthquake

Heavy snow wrecks havoc in SW China

Magnitude-5.1 aftershocks jolt NZ's Canterbury

M4.8 tremor hits East China city

7.2 magnitude quake hits Pakistan

51 dead from flooding in the Philippines; 1.6 million affected

5.1-magnitude quake hits Coquimbo, Chile

6.5 magnitude quake rocks Sumatra, Indonesia

Drought affecting more than 2 million people in China

Floods hit towns in Victoria of Australia

Most parts of China to experience snow

Moderate quake rocks Indonesia's West Papua

7.0 magnitude earthquake expected in China

Magnitude-7.4 earthquake hits Japan's Bonin Islands

7.2-magnitude earthquake jolts Loyalty Islands

Hundreds hospitalised in Vietnam cold snap

21 dead, 270,000 homeless in Sri Lankan floods

Brazil floods, mudslides leave over 250 dead

6.5 magnitude quake hits Japan

Rains inundate more areas in Philippines

Icy weather, sleet force over 100,000 to evacuate in southwest China province

M5.0 quake hits Yellow Sea, Shanghai feels tremor

South China dealing with big chill

Flash flood hits Australia's Queesland town

A flash flood hits Toowoomba, Queensland on January 10, 2011. (Xinhua/AFP photo)

Melting snow, heavy rains trigger flood in Germany

Cold snap kills 16 in Mexico

Flood-soaked Australia warned of 'dramatic' rain

Strong 6.6 quake strikes off Vanuatu

Sri Lanka floods kill seven, leave 750,000 homeless

Moderate earthquake hits NE China city

Moderate earthquake hits NE China city

Floods strike Malaysia's Terengganu

Floods, landslide hit Brazil

Southern China hit by icy rain

Moderate earthquake rattles southern Iran, few injuries

Floods force 5,000 to miss first day of school in Kelantan

Ice storms freeze Southern China

Thousands still stranded on central China's ice-coated roads

Earthquake damages 23,600 buildings in SW China

A lady stands beside her destroyed house in Yingjiang County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Jan. 3, 2011. (Xinhua/He Haiyan)

North India continues in grip of cold waves, 30 dead so far

First snow of new year blankets some parts of China

7.0-magnitude earthquake hits northern Argentina

7.1 magnitude quake hits Chile

Several quakes jolt SW China province

Colombia hit by worst rainfall in over 50 years

Heat wave sweeps Argentina

Over 100 tourists stranded in N. India by snow

Floods hit over 364,000 people in Sri Lanka

7.0-magnitude earthquake hits northern Argentina

A car affected by flooded waters is seen in Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia January 1, 2011. Flood water rose across Australia's northeast on Friday, covering an area bigger than France and Germany combined, inundating 22 towns and stranding 200,000 people, and closing one of the country's major sugar export ports. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)