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JR常磐線・相馬―浜吉田間運行再開The Joban Line is a Japan Rail East railway that runs about 350 km from Tokyo through four prefectures: Chiba, Ibaraki, Fukushima and Miyagi up the east coast of Honshu to Sendai. Train services on the J...

The Happy Nomad Myanmar earthquake damage from last week’s 6.8 magnitude shake includes 397 ancient temples, according to authorities on Monday. Deputy Director General of the Department of Archaeology Thein Lwin has said the the restoration proces...

A rescue worker and a dog search among debris following an earthquake in Amatrice, central Italy, August 27, 2016. ©ReutersRescuers believe they have located more bodies in the ruined town of Amatrice, five days after a devastating earthquake in cen...

The death toll from a powerful earthquake that devastated parts of central Italy has reached 247 as rescue and search operations are underway to find possible survivors.On Thursday, Italy’s civil protection agency said a tally by local officia...

By Karen Mizoguchi 08/25/2016 AT 01:00 AM EDT A 10-year-old girl was saved out of the rubble by firefighters following the 6.2-magnitude earthquake in Italy. In an emotional video aired on Sky TG24 Italia, a firefighter moves away the debris wit...

Today, on 23rd August 2016, 5.5 Magnitude earthquake hits India-Myanmar border area. 5.5 Richter scale shocks happened at 7:11 am morning. IMD- Indian Meteorological Department informed about this. The best part is that there is no news of any damage...

A network of broadband seismometers (indicated by triangles) is tracking seismic activity (indicated by circles) in the area of Illapel, ChileLater this year, seismology geophysicist Steve Roecker will travel to Illapel, Chile, to remove instruments...

Oil field workers drill the Gypsum Hills in Kansas. A byproduct of fracking for oil in states like Kansas and Oklahoma is a sharp rise in the number of earthquakes — a danger states are trying to prevent.Stopping an earthquake before it starts? It...

Schematic diagram of a subduction zone with sediments structureCredit: C. Kersten GEOMARWhere a tectonic plate dives under another, in the so-called subduction zones at ocean margins, many strong earthquakes occur. Especially the earthquakes at shall...

On the morning of April 18, 1906, a massive earthquake shook San Francisco, California. Though the quake lasted less than a minute, its immediate impact was disastrous. The earthquake also ignited several fires around the city that burned for three d...

Damaged and clamped pillar at Lakshi Narayan temple, Chamba, India. Damage likely to have occurred during the 1555 Kashmir earthquake. Credit: Mayank Joshi Tilted pillars, cracked steps, and sliding stone canopies in a number of 7th-century A.D. temp...

Listed below are all known earthquakes measured or estimated to have a magnitude of 8.5 or above on the moment magnitude or Richter magnitude scale. Location Date UTC Magnitude 1 Chile 22/05/1960 9.5 2 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake 28/...

This is a historic photo of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.Credit: USGS Earth ObservatoryThe triggering of small, deep earthquakes along California's San Andreas Fault reveals depth-dependent frictional behavior that may provide insight into pa...

Aerial photo of the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, northwest of Los Angeles. Credit: Wikipedia. The gravitational tug between the sun and moon is not just a dance of high and low tides: It can also trigger a special kind of earthquake on the...

Schematic summary of research findings showing the sequence of slip behavior. Credit: UC Riverside Preparation and good timing enabled Gareth Funning and a team of researchers to collect a unique data set following the 2014 South Napa earthquake that...

An earthquake has rocked the city of Lahore in northern Pakistan, witnesses said. The epicentre of the 4.4 magnitude quake was located about 37km southwest of Lahore, at a depth of 10km. Waqas Habib Rana, a resident of Lahore said… Continue Rea...

Anna University Chennai DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING SUBJECT CODE: CE6701 YEAR : IV SUBJECT NAME: STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS AND EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING SEM   : VII QUESTION BANK (As per Anna University 2013 regulation) Attachment: https://goo.gl/4ng1b...

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that approximately 500,000 earthquakes occur around the globe each year, 100,000 of which can be felt. Now people who feel the effects of an earthquake can ask Google directly about the disaster and get timely inf...

Scientists have long known that Earth produces an eerie low-frequency hum that’s inaudible to humans but detectable with seismic instruments. …Continue reading →...

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