The Central U.S. is at risk for major disaster. But scientists don’t know why — or when — the next big one will strike.
Tag: quake
The shoddy homes that collapse on their inhabitants in Turkey’s recent earthquake were badly, and hastily, built as part of a worldwide real-estate fever typically fueled by greedy governments indifferent to safety norms and common sense.
Colombia has a history of earthquakes, yet many of its buildings are not designed to withstand even moderate tremors. As Turkey and Syria reel from disaster, will other countries around the world learn any lessons?
BBC (UK), CHINA DAILY (China), CNN (US), XINHUA (China) Worldcrunch Two powerful earthquakes have killed at least 54 people and injured 337 in northwest China, according to state media. The quakes hit along the border of two counties — Min and Zhang — at around 7:45 a.m. local time, according to state news agency Xinhua. […]
KAISERSLAUTERN – It’s been more than two years since 21 people were killed and more than 500 injured in the Duisburg Love Parade, a tragedy that shocked Germany and reopened wider questions about how to control large crowds. In an article published in the EPJ Data Science journal, physicist Dirk Helbing of the Swiss Federal […]
JAPAN TIMES, NHK (Japan), CNN (USA), BBC NEWS (UK) Worldcrunch TOKYO – A powerful earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan on Friday evening, triggering a tsunami, reports CNN. The epicentre of the 7.3 magnitude quake was about 245km (150 miles) south-east of Kamiashi at a depth of about 36 kilometers. There have been […]