Earthquakes

A powerful series of earthquakes struck western Venezuela on Wednesday afternoon, damaging buildings in the capital Caracas, trapping people under rubble and raising fears of widespread destruction across the country. A magnitude 7.2…
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A wave of anxiety has swept across Japan and beyond, as a surge of over 1,000 earthquakes in the past two weeks and a viral manga prediction have triggered widespread doomsday speculation for July 5 — today. While none of the tremors have…
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Earth’s climate is changing rapidly. In some areas, escalating temperatures are increasing the frequency and likelihood of wildfires and drought. In others, they are making downpours and storms more intense or accelerating the pace of…
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Climate change may have marginally increased the frequency of earthquakes in the Himalayas though there is no reliable system of forecasting them, Jitendra Singh, Minister of Earth Sciences (MoES) said in response to multiple queries in the…
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An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 shook Nepal on Sunday morning. The quake took place 147 km ESE of Kathmandu, Nepal at 8.13 a.m IST around Martim Birta of Khotang district, according to the National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre…
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The strongest ever seismic activity recorded in Antarctica saw a swarm of 85,000 earthquakes triggered in a span of just four months back in 2020. It was caused by a volcano, that had long been dormant, finally waking up. The swarm of…
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