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A pro-government Chinese newspaper claims malicious software, that appears to be from US intelligence agencies, has been discovered during a probe into an attack on the Wuhan Earthquake Monitoring Centre which is affiliated to the city's Emergency Management Bureau.

Telco provider amaysim is offering free standard international calls and text messages to Turkey and Syria from Australia in response to the devastating earthquakes in the regions over the past week.

Telecommunications provider Telstra will provide its customers free calls to Turkey and Syria to connect with their family and loved ones.

Telecommunications provider Vodafone is extending assistance to its customers in Turkey and Syria by providing free standard international mobile phone calls to earthquake-affected areas for the next seven days.

Infrastructure and sensing monitoring company FiberSense has claimed that fibre optic-based quake detection is as reliable as current methods that depend on monitoring stations following the 5.8 Cook Strait earthquake magnitude that occurred 70km northwest of Wellington, New Zealand last 22 September.

Mobile networks and broadband Internet access for corporate and consumer customers operated by PNG DataCo have been restored by SES Networks, following a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck near the town of Bulolo, Papua New Guinea, in the early morning hours of 7 May.

New Zealand was hit by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday afternoon. Very unusually for New Zealand, this quake was very deep, yet still very strong, and in a somewhat unexpected location.

Both Optus and Telstra are offering free calls to Italy for their customers to contact family and friends in the wake of the devastating earthquake which struck the country’s Umbria region in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Apple has made it possible to donate to Nepalese earthquake victims via iTunes, with 100% of donations going to the Red Cross.

A new iPhone app aims to alert your friends or family if you are caught in an earthquake.

I've been asked to speculate on the appearance and effect of an eruption (should it ever occur) in the volcanoes immediately south and east of Christchurch, New Zealand.

The spate of earthquakes that have inflicted major damage upon Christchurch in New Zealand display a very worrying trend.  Is the nearby volcano about to erupt?

NITL is launching its highly successful Exact Advantage software application across EMEA and Asia Pacific for the management of global exposure to potential losses arising from man-made and natural disasters.

Would you and your organisation be ready to cope with a disaster on the scale of this year's Japan and New Zealand earthquakes?

Telstra today announced free telephone calls and text messages for customers wishing to check on family and friends affected by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan.