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HILO, Hawaii, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- No damage was reported in the aftermath of a 4.7-magnitude earthquake and several aftershocks that rattled Hawaii's Big Island, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake struck at 4:36 p.m. Sunday, 5 miles beneath Kilauea volcano. The...

The remote Pitcairn Island in the Pacific Ocean - home of the descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers - has recorded its first birth...

SANTIAGO, Chile – The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-7 earthquake has hit southern Chile. There is no immediate word on any injuries or damage. The USGS says it struck Friday afternoon about 30 miles (45 kilometers) north of the city of Concepcion at a depth of 11 miles (18...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/01/18/ctw.sayah.pak.quake.cnn -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck Wednesday morning in a remote area of southwestern Pakistan, but initial reports revealed no major damage. The earthquake occurred at 1:23 a.m. (3:23 p.m. Tuesday ET) at a...

- A moderate earthquake shook southern Iran Wednesday morning, injuring at least 16 people and causing damage in a number of villages, state media reported. "A number of old houses in rural areas have been damaged and seven villages have been severely damaged," the semi-official Mehr News...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/01/02/bpr.chile.vilcun.cnn - A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the central coastal area of Chile on Sunday, some 70 kilometers (45 miles) northwest of Temuco, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injury. The...

A rescue operation was launched Wednesday to retrieve 111 people from a burning ship hundreds of miles off the coast of United Kingdom and France, authorities said. Most of the crew of the Athena -- a fishing ship that processes fish on board -- have been evacuated to life rafts, while the...

A 4.4-magnitude earthquake appeared to trigger a small landslide in Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest on Saturday, an emergency management official said. No injuries were reported and the quarter-mile-wide slide stopped short of the road, leaving only a trail at Ditch Creek affected, Rich...

Rowers break record crossing Atlantic SCILLY, England, It took 43 days, but a rowing team has broken the record for crossing the North Atlantic from New York to the British Scilly Isles. The British-led team paddled an 18-foot long wooden boat called the "Fox" 3,500 miles, through storms and...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea, A powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake rocked Papua New Guinea Sunday, triggering a tsunami alert although no waves were immediately seen, seismologists said. The U.S. Geological Survey said in a written statement the quake was centered 170 miles southwest of Rabul...

Diabetic runs cross country -- literally NEW YORK, (UPI) -- A 64-year-old New York man has completed a run across the United States aimed at raising awareness of diabetes. Yi-joo Kwon, who lives in the Flushing neighborhood in Queens, was joined by a pack of 25 other runners Friday for the...

Boy's bottled message found 125 miles away SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., (UPI) -- An Arizona boy who dropped a message in a bottle into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico said the bottle was found a year later by a science team. Jack Johnson, 12, of Scottsdale, said he dropped the bottle...

2 quakes shake Southern California BORREGO SPRINGS, Calif., (UPI) -- Back-to-back earthquakes rattled the Southern California community of Borrego Springs Saturday night, seismologists said. The U.S. Geological Survey said preliminary readings put the first temblor at 8:08:56 local time at a...

PARIS (AFP) – Astronomers on Wednesday said they could explain a nearly four-decade-old enigma surrounding rugged troughs and a chasm in the northern ice cap of Mars that could comfortably house the Grand Canyon. The Red Planet's northern cap measures around 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) across...

After 25 years and 120 million miles of spaceflight, NASA's space shuttle Atlantis has flown its final planned mission with life as a museum exhibit ahead in its future. But the space plane is leaving an impressive legacy in its wake. Atlantis returned to Earth Wednesday with a smooth landing...

Strong quake rumbles off Sumatra Island JAKARTA, (UPI) -- A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the Aceh coast on Indonesia's Sumatra Island Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. There was no immediate report of damage, officials told Indonesian news agency Antara. The...

The latest "American Idol" castoff says downtime doesn't exist when you're on the show. "There are no days off," says 24-year-old Paige Miles. After Wednesday's elimination show, there's little time for sad goodbyes and reflection. The contestants are required to have decided what song...

ALGIERS (AFP) – Algerian coastguards said they intercepted 11 migrants on Sunday, including a child and a disabled man, in a boat off the coast of the north African country. The migrants, all aged under 30, were stopped around four nautical miles from the northwestern city of Oran, the...

Go ahead punk, make her day! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A MAN WHO KNOWS HIS MATH He writes: I was riding to work yesterday when I observed a female driver, who cut right in front of a pickup truck, causing the driver to drive onto the...

Blonde Rolls Back The Odometer A blonde wanted to sell her car, but couldn't find any buyers. She called her friend for advice, and her friend asked her how many miles she had on her car. "235,000 miles." Her friend told her that was the problem. But the blonde's friend told her that her...