The victims were part of a group of 34 Buddhist monks and five lay followers undertaking a pilgrimage from a temple in Mukdahan province to another in neighboring Ubon Ratchathani province.
Tymur Tkachenko, the head of the capital's military administration, said 56 people, including two children, were injured and three dozen locations across the city had been damaged in the attacks.
According to the USGS, the quake occurred at a depth of 216.7 km (134.65 miles).
Their task is the management of a shelter for victims of the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 quakes. The dozen or so staff have designed a digital system to register residents, most of whom have suffered loss.
"In the end, we believe the days have already passed and that what we will find now is death," said Major Jorge Montanero, leader of the EQ11 team from Guayaquil, located on Ecuador's Pacific coast.
Monica De la Cruz and other US House members from south Texas intervened with federal officials, leading to the nun's release from ICE custody.
Three others were wounded in the incident, though CENTCOM said that the helicopter was not forced to make an emergency landing in the Arabian Sea.
A dramatic stunt atop the Empire State Building turned romantic when one climber appeared to propose more than 1,400 feet above Manhattan.
The British leader was responding to a lawmaker who said he was worried that racism and the incitement of violence linked to it were being normalized, including by some politicians.
Geoffrey Stern, president of PEF Israel Endowment Funds, gives his first interview as a House committee investigates whether American donor dollars helped pay for Israel's anti-government protests.
The bunker is part of a subterranean bunker complex constructed over a period of ten years, and which served as the headquarters of the Nazi regime until the last week of World War II in Europe.
