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Magnitude 4.0 light earthquake rattled Whakatane town of New Zealand at 02:25 pm Wednesday afternoon. According to GeoNet, the epicenter was located 10 km north-east of Opotiki. The earthquake occurred at 46 km depth.

Recent floods in Haiti caused by the torrential rainfall have claimed lives of at least four people including three children. Torrential rains have affected 112 families in Port-au-Prince, 2,500 in Cite Soleil and 1,800 in Cabaret, Haiti Libr e reported quoting a provisional assessment of the Directorate of Civil Protection.

Magnitude 4.3 light tremor has been felt around Gosainkunda Festival Spot of Rasuwa district. According to Nepal's National Seismological Center, the quake occurred at 03:18 pm Tuesday afternoon on April 26, 2016. This is the 450th aftershock of magnitude 4 and greater recorded since 2015 Gorkha earthquake , Seismological Center said.

Image Courtesy: pnsn.org The Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) has installed four earthquake early warning sensors in Kathmandu valley on the first anniversary of the Gorkha earthquake . These sensors can inform about the earthquakes 10-22 seconds in advance.  The NAST has installed the earthquake sirens at Khumaltar, Kirtipur, Godawari and Sinamangal areas which will send information of earthquake occurred within the 80 km of range of the installation.

A light earthquake of magnitude 4.2 rattled Vienna and Lower Austria at 12:28 pm Monday afternoon on April 25, 2016. According to the Austrian Central Institute for Meteorology and Geo dynamics, the quake's epicenter was located 18 km SW of Vienna.

Recent hailstorm in Myanmar has claimed lives of at least eight people and destroyed around 7,500 houses. Six people died in Yay Tha Yauk village in the central region of Mandalay, Phyu Lei Lei Tun, director of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, told AFP .