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Around 500,000 earthquakes are recorded across world every year, key to limit massive destructions may be liked to unique move in 1970s. Here's what experts are sayingEarthquakes are among the greatest global challenges for the safety of structures. Existing buildings constructed before the introduction o...- What makes earthquakes so deadly?Colombia and Venezuela experienced deadly earthquakes due to tectonic plate friction. The Nazca plate sliding beneath the South American pl...
- Powerful 6.1 magnitude earthquake strikes off Cuba, tremors reach Florida and Mexico; strongest hit in over 100 yearsA powerful 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck off Cuba's coast, sending tremors across Florida and Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. While no major ...
- Scientists Say Earth’s Inner Core May Have Slowed and Shifted Direction: But It’s Not the Dramatic Change Headlines SuggestScientists have found Earth's inner core rotation is not constant. It sometimes spins faster or slower than the outer layers, and can even ...
- Think You’re Safe From an Earthquake? Distance May Not Protect YouEarthquakes can shake areas much farther than expected, defying the simple rule that distance equals less shaking. Old, cold rock in the ea...
- Can Some Earthquakes Occur With No Surface Damage?Earthquake damage isn't solely determined by magnitude; factors like depth, local geology, and infrastructure resilience play crucial roles...
- Tsunami watch lifted after three powerful Earthquakes struck Russia within 32 minutes?A series of three earthquakes jolted the area near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky within a 32-minute window on Sunday. The most powerful of the t...
- Two quakes in Pacific ocean, but no damages or tsunami warnings issuedEarly Wednesday morning, two offshore earthquakes struck the southwest Pacific. The first, a magnitude 5.9 (GeoNet) or 6.2 (USGS), occurred...
- The Great Himalayan Earthquake: A matter of 'when' not 'if'A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar and Thailand, causing over 1,000 deaths and nearly 2,400 injuries. Experts warn that the...
- What caused Morocco's earthquake? A geologist studying the Atlas mountains explainsThe recent earthquake, which was caused by a geological phenomenon known as a "reverse fault," suggests that stress from the plates pushing...
- 300 deaths, 10,000 cracked building: Not rains, here's what destroyed picturesque HimachalMore than 110 landslides and floods occurred from 24 June to 14 July. The devastation is largely due to the unchecked building of cement an...
- Why Indonesia’s 5.6-magnitude earthquake was so devastating as death toll surpasses 260? Know hereAn earthquake in Indonesia left over 260 fatalities and hundreds injured, a very high number of deaths for a 5.6-magnitude earthquake. Expe...
- Why was Indonesia's shallow quake so deadly?Bodies continued to be pulled from the debris on Tuesday morning in the hardest-hit city of Cianjur, located in the country’s most densely ...
- New survey suggests Mt Everest a bit taller than past measurements: Why did the height change?The new height is 8,848.86 metres, more than 2 feet higher than the previous figure.
- Why did Mount Everest's height change?As definitive as that sounds, geological changes, the complicated business of measuring a mountain and varying criteria for determining the...
- Work going on in full swing in Jammu & Kashmir to complete world's highest railway bridgeThe Udhampur “Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link Project, which is the most challenging railway infrastructure project being undertaken post-inde...
- More earthquakes could occur globally & India needn’t worry about a bad monsoon in 2018Like earthquake prediction, forecasting a monsoon accurately well in advance is also extremely valuable but difficult.
- Scientists try to decipher signatures of past earthquakesSince predicting earthquakes is nearly impossible, scientists try to study the past records to try decipher some clues for future forecasti...
- Past earthquakes play role in future landslidesThe likelihood of an area experiencing a potentially devastating landslide could be influenced by its previous exposure to earthquakes many...
- Jaitapur nuclear plant site not immune to earthquake: ExpertsTwo geologists have said that a 6-plus earthquake cannot be ruled out & it could occur within the lifetime of the plant.
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