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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada 'stands ready' to help Taiwan as it recovers from a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that has shaken the Asian island nation.

The strongest earthquake in a quarter-century rocked Taiwan on Wednesday, killing nine people, sending some scrambling out windows of damaged buildings.

An earthquake shook the densely populated New York City metropolitan area Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said, with residents across the Northeast reporting rumbling.

Footage and images from Hualien show buildings leaning precariously after the quake and emergency crews could be seen rescuing people from crumbling buildings.

Taiwan's representative to Canada, Harry Tseng, says he has no details about the missing person but two rescued Canadian tourists don't have serious injuries.

Late Wednesday, the disaster management command center said the search for 42 hotel workers on their way to Taroko Gorge, a national park, was a major focus for them.

A tsunami of up to three meters was expected to reach Japan's southwestern coast late Wednesday morning, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

Taylon Nichelle Celestine, a 22-year-old from Georgia, faces charges of attempted murder after two people were injured by bullets on the day of the eclipse.

Baltimore dispatchers had about 90 seconds to stop traffic between the cargo vessel's mayday call and the boat making impact with the bridge's structual column.

Hundreds of people were evacuated from the Blue Lagoon thermal spa, one of Iceland’s top tourist attractions, when the volcano eruption began.

Earthquakes Canada said the quake happened around 5:40 p.m., about 186 kilometres west of Port Hardy.

Israeli airstrikes that killed seven aid workers in Gaza reverberated around the world, as friends and relatives remembered those who worked with World Central Kitchen.

Jacob Flickinger, a Canadian-U.S. citizen who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza working for World Central Kitchen, was a Canadian Armed Forces veteran.

Tuesday's collapse is sure to create a logistical headache along the East Coast for months, if not longer, shutting down shipping traffic at the Port of Baltimore, a major hub.

Experts warned of disease and even death at the evacuation centers that now house about 34,000 people who lost their homes, many of them older.

A container ship rammed into a major bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday, causing it to snap in a few places and plunge into the river below.

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Japanese rescue workers and canine units searched urgently through rubble Wednesday ahead of predicted bitter cold and heavy rain.

A series of powerful earthquakes that hit western Japan have left at least 48 people dead and damaged thousands of buildings, vehicles and boats.

Canada is expected to make an earthquake early-warning system live later in 2024, but one seismologist says it's just one part of the country's preparedness plans.