Sentences with phrase «magnitude earthquake saturday»

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Washington (CNN)- Washington's National Cathedral sustained «significant damage» during Tuesday's 5.8 - magnitude earthquake, the church said Wednesday, and will remain closed at least through Saturday, when it had planned to host a dedication event for the capital's new Martin Luther King Jr. memorial.

CT previously reported how dozens of Nepali Christians died when April's 7.8 magnitude earthquake occurred on a Saturday, the day weekly church services are observed.

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake also hit the north - west coast of Ecuador at 7 pm local time on the Saturday (pictured), killing at least 272 people and injuring another 2500.

The recent earthquake swarm, beginning on March 24 and climaxed by a 4.9 magnitude tremor on Saturday, has produced no reports of injuries or severe damage but has rattled nerves in a region where Idaho's most powerful known quake, measured at 6.9, killed two children in 1983.

There are plenty of reasons damage and deaths from the 7.1 - magnitude earthquake that struck near Christchurch, New Zealand, on Saturday utterly paled compared to the absolute devastation wrought by the 7.0 - magnitude quake near Port - au - Prince, Haiti.

Remarkably, experts tell me they see signs of progress amid the destruction and carnage in Nepal left by the 7.8 - magnitude earthquake that struck 50 miles from Katmandu last Saturday.

As Japan awoke on Saturday to the devastation left by the one - two punch of an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and a deadly tsunami, Japanese officials warned that damage to a coastal nuclear reactor may have resulted in a radiation leak after its cooling system was knocked offline on Friday.