500,000 Coronavirus Cases Reported Worldwide

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 17:47:00 +0200qnewshub (en)

Commuters wearing face masks make their way to work on Thursday, as worldwide confirmed cases of coronavirus cross 500,000. Getty Images Topline: As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide crosses the threshold of half a million, with nearly 23,000 deaths, the crisis has grown to....

Tsunami de noticias falsas

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 07:23:00 +0200elcomercio-EC (es)

De acuerdo con una reciente crónica de The Guardian, un “tsunami de noticias falsas perjudica el esfuerzo de A. Latina para luchar contra el coronavirus”. La gigantesca ola de desinformación se mueve entre una variopinta escala desde lo extraño hasta lo ridículo.

New study detects thousands of earthquakes in B.C. Peace region, most linked to fracking

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:07:00 +0200CBC (en)

B.C.'s Peace region is experiencing roughly 1,500 small earthquakes a year and most of them are connected to fracking operations, according to a new study. Researchers set up 15 earthquake detectors around the region and recorded 5,757 tiny earthquakes that were otherwise undetected between 2017 and 2019.

Today in history

Sun, 02 Aug 2020 09:53:00 +0200mia-mk (en)

2 August 2020 (MIA) 338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean. 216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a....

Cómo proceder antes, durante y después de un terremoto

Sun, 02 Aug 2020 07:33:00 +0200infobae (es)

Con frecuencia se registran movimientos telúricos fuertes que ponen en alerta a la población en toda Sudamérica y en el mundo entero. Incluso, muchos de los países de la región están ubicados en el llamado Cinturón de Fuego: las costas del Pacífico propensas a sismos.

MIL-OSI China: 6.4-magnitude earthquake rattles southern Philippines

Sun, 02 Aug 2020 05:17:00 +0200foreignaffairs-nz (en)

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 shook Maguindanao province in the southern Philippines early on Sunday, the Philippine Institute of Seismology and Volcanology (Phivolcs) said. The institute said the quake, which struck at 1:08 a.m. local time, hit at a depth of 543 kilometers, about 13 kilometers southeast of Cotabato City.