A 6.9 magnitude quake has struck Ecuador in a region south-east of Quito, the US Geological Survey said.
No tsunami was believed generated by the quake, whose epicentre was 96 miles from Quito, in the centre of the country.
The agency twice revised its estimate of the magnitude of the quake, from 6.9 to 7.2 and then back to a 6.9 magnitude.
Nearly 20 million people in China live in areas at high risk of arsenic contamination in their water supplies,
Tubewells in seven wards of Chittagong City Corporation are pumping water with arsenic contamination 10 times higher than the
TOKYO (AP)—Much of Japan's Pacific coast could be inundated by a tsunami more than 34 meters (112 feet) high