University of Shizuoka Announces New Study on 2019 Ridgecrest, California, Earthquake Sequence to Encourage Reconfirming Earthquake Preparedness on Regular Basis

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 08:16:00 +0200AsiaOne (en)

SHIZUOKA, Japan June 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Kazu Z. Nanjo , Leader of Division for Earthquake Prediction Research, Global Center for Asia and Regional Research, and Associate Professor of University of Shizuoka, Japan , announced that a new paper on the July 2019 earthquake sequence in....

City of Zagreb Struck by Yet Another Moderate Earthquake

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 21:55:00 +0200total-croatia-news (en)

June 17, 2020 - We've almost gotten over our anxieties over the numerous earthquakes that hit Zagreb in 2020, but yet another one of them hit us today. The major earthquakes which hit Zagreb on March 22, 2020, have wreaked havoc in the city centre, and have been followed by numerous aftershocks.

The City of Zagreb Struck by a Yet Another Moderate Earthquake

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 19:38:00 +0200total-croatia-news (en)

June 17, 2020 - We've almost gotten over our anxieties over the numerous earthquakes that hit Zagreb in 2020, but yet another one of them hit us today. The major earthquakes which hit Zagreb on March 22, 2020, have wreaked havoc in the city center, and have been followed by numerous aftershocks.

Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 4159: Hardware Acceleration of Tsunami Wave Propagation Modeling in the Southern Part of Japan

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 11:46:00 +0200mdpi (en)

In order to speed up the calculation of tsunami wave propagation, the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) microchip is used. This makes it possible to achieve valuable performance gain with a modern regular personal computer. The two half-step MacCormack scheme was used herein for numerical approximation of the shallow water system.

Earthquake of 6.3 magnitude quake hits Japan

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 04:24:00 +0200uniindia (en)

Russia’s North Kuril islands hit by magnitude 5 5 earthquake – Seismologists Argentina not thinking about restarting football, says minister Beijing reports 36 new confirmed COVID-19 cases Ghana's health minister tests positive for COVID-19 Chinese mainland reports 49 new confirmed COVID-19 cases....

Remote Sensing, Vol. 12, Pages 1924: Deep Learning-Based Identification of Collapsed, Non-Collapsed and Blue Tarp-Covered Buildings from Post-Disaster Aerial Images

Sun, 14 Jun 2020 13:38:00 +0200mdpi (en)

A methodology for the automated identification of building damage from post-disaster aerial images was developed based on convolutional neural network (CNN) and building damage inventories. The aerial images and the building damage data obtained in the 2016 Kumamoto, and the 1995 Kobe, Japan earthquakes were analyzed.

Strong quake hits Japan coast

Sun, 14 Jun 2020 13:21:00 +0200manilastandard-ph (en)

There were no immediate reports of injury or damage caused by the earthquake; its epicentre was 135 kilometres northwest of Naze, Japan . The quake, which USGS originally recorded as a 6.7-magnitude temblor, was relatively deep at 160 kilometres. Japan’s Kyodo News agency reported that the earthquake....

The black hole through which the virus sneaked | The coronavirus crisis

Sun, 14 Jun 2020 08:01:00 +0200theunionjournal (en)

The first person to die of coronavirus in Spain was a 69-year-old man who had traveled to Nepal and died in the ICU of the Arnau hospital in Vilanova (Valencia) on February 13. But the cause of his death was not known until March 3. During the 15 days following his death, one of the […]

6.3-magnitude quake strikes off Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture, no tsunami warning issued

Sun, 14 Jun 2020 05:33:00 +0200peopledaily (en)

TOKYO, June 14 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 struck off the northwest coast of the Amamioshima Island of Japan 's Kagoshima Prefecture on Sunday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The temblor occurred at around 0:51 a.m. local time, with its epicenter at a latitude of 28.

14 June 2020 - Strong Earthquake in Ryukyu Islands, Japan on 14 June 2020 at 11.51pm

Sun, 14 Jun 2020 05:05:00 +0200met-my (en)

Our Ref.: JMM.APL15/756/22/07 Jld.16(71) PRESS RELEASE Strong Earthquake in Ryukyu Islands, Japan A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.6 on the Richter scale occurred near Ryukyu Islands, Japan at 11:51pm (Malaysian Local Time) on 13 June 2020 . The epicentre of the earthquake was located at latitude 28.