Scientists warned of an increased probability that another powerful earthquake will hit the earthquake-stricken New Zealand city of Christchurch in the next year. Christchurch, New Zealand’s second largest city, is still recovering from 6.3-magnitude quake struck in
Strong 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit Oklahoma at at 03:53:10 UTC located 34 km (21 miles) NNE of Shawnee, 63 km (39 miles) SSE of Stillwater, 68 km (42 miles) ESE of Guthrie and 71 km (44 miles) ENE of Oklahoma City (35.537°N, 96.747°W). Epicenter was at depth of 5 km
Thousands of the tiny creatures were spotted washed up Thursday afternoon on beach in Lyall Bay in New Zealand. Puzzled expert are trying to identify misterious creatures with black eyes and little legs. They guess that it could be from deeper water as they were
Pevolca has declared closing (until further notice) of the Los Roquillos tunnel because great risk of rockfall and landslides. The tunnel was already closed during the nightly hours, re-opened during the morning and awaiting a final verdict from Pevolca. The strong
Haze hugged the southern slopes of the Himalaya in early November 2011. At about 10:45 a.m. on November 3, 2011, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image of haze stretching from Pakistan
More than 780 000 lives were lost as a result of earthquakes over the past 10 years. This is nearly 60% of all disaster-related deaths, according to a study published in The Lancet on Friday. The study was conducted by Susan Bartels of the Beth Israel Deaconess…
Heavy fog has halted flights from the only airstrip serving the area causing around 1500 foreign tourists stranding in the Everest region.”The hotels are running out of food because of the pressure. Hundreds of people are living in tents,” Utsab Kharel, manager of
Dust blew over the Gulf of Alaska in early November 2011. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image on November 2, 2011.Blowing toward the south-southwest, the dust plume remains
The silence of governments and the world press about the radiation dangers from Fukushima is alarming to say the least. We have an open nuclear sore on the planet, a radioactive boil that continues to burst casting a toxic shadow on the people of Japan and a few other
Wintertime droughts are increasingly common in the Mediterranean region, and human-caused climate change is partly responsible, according to a new analysis by NOAA scientists and colleagues at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES).
