Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck in the Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and eastern Cuba on Jan. 28, shaking a vast area from Mexico to Florida and beyond, but there were no reports of casualties or heavy damage.

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake was reported in the Pacific Ocean near Chile, BTA reported. There are no data on injured people, damages and interruption of basic services.

An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale this morning in the area of ​​the Kermadake island group in the southern Pacific Ocean, Reuters and AP reported, referring to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

Earthquake of magnitude 7.1 in southern Peru.

The strong earthquake occurred at 3:50 am (10 am Bulgarian time) at a very deep depth of 258 kilometers below the ground, with an epicenter 27 kilometers north-northeast of the city of Assangaro.

There is no evidence of injured people and material damage.

PAHOA, Hawaii (Reuters) - GA series of fresh earthquakes on Friday, including a powerful magnitude 6.9, hit Hawaii's Big Island, where the Kilauea volcano has been spewing fountains of lava into residential areas and forcing hundreds to evacuate.

An earthquake magnitude 7.6 occurred near the coast of Honduras, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said Wednesday.

A 6.8 earthquake has struck south of the Philippines island of Mindanao, triggering a brief warning of "hazardous tsunami waves" for the country's coastlines, according to the US Geological Survey and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

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A major 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea on Jan. 22, but a tsunami alert intially issued for the Pacific island nation and its neighbours was later cancelled.

The tremor struck 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Panguna on Papua New Guinea's Bougainville island at a depth of 153 kilometres at 3:30 pm local time (0430 GMT), the US Geological Survey said.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 struck off Indonesia's Maluku Islands on Jan. 14. 

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 struck 225 km (140 miles) southwest of Puerto Montt in southern Chile on Dec. 25, the United States Geological Survey has said. 

It was earlier reported as magnitude 7.6. 

The quake's depth was measured at about 15 km (nine miles).