Threat of tsunami after earthquake hits El Salvador and Nicaragua (local time: 12:43, Depth 10 km)

A strong earthquake off the Pacific Coast of Central America shook the region, US monitoring agencies said.

Tsunami warning issued after Japanese earthquake (local time: 05:59 , Depth 10 km)

A tsunami warning has been issued after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 hit northern Japan.

Marty becomes a hurricane, nears Mexico's Pacific coast

Hurricane Marty formed on Monday, rolling northeast toward Mexico's Pacific Coast and threatening to dump heavy rain on the southwest of the country, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

Japan buries more dolphins after mass beaching. There was also a mass stranding on a remote New Zealand beach on February 20

Japanese officials were burying several more dolphins on Monday as researchers tried to work out why scores of the animals beached themselves last week.

Whale beaching fuels 'unscientific' undersea quake fears in Japan

The mass beaching of more than 150 melon-headed whales on Japan's shores has fuelled fears of a repeat of a seemingly unrelated event in the country—the devastating 2011 undersea earthquake that killed around 19,000 people.

US scientists expect radioactive water from Fukushima at American coast by April

American scientists beware that radiation from Japan's leaking Fukushima nuclear power plant could reach Pacific coast in the nearest future. Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, Mass., reported that four coastal monitoring sites in California and Washington have detected no traces of radiation from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant destruction - "not yet," he said during a telephone press briefing, but noted that it might reach the coast by April.