Officials of Ishikawa Prefecture’s Suzu City say they have confirmed several houses and power poles have collapsed following a magnitude 7.4 quake Monday afternoon. A quake with an intensity of upper six on the Japanese intensity scale of 0 to seven was observed in the city.
The families of two young boys who died when they were thrown from an off-road vehicle into a waterhole during a Christmas holiday in New Zealand say their hearts are “unmendable”.
When huge amounts of snow started busting ground-floor windows at a Sydney, N.S., apartment building, a half-dozen residents quickly mobilized to make sure things didn’t get worse.