Solon eyes stricter National Building Code

2022-08-09T16:48+0200manilastandard-ph (en)

A lawmaker has batted for the enactment of a bill seeking to repeal the country’s obsolete National Building Code. Pleyto filed House Bill 1180 providing for more stringent laws governing the building construction industry. In a privilege speech, Rep. Salvador Pleyto of Bulacan said the destruction brought about by the magnitude 7.

Why the length of Earth’s days has been mysteriously increasing

2022-08-08T10:48+0200HindustanTimes (en)

Atomic clocks, combined with precise astronomical measurements, have revealed that the length of a day is suddenly getting longer, and scientists don’t know why. This has critical impacts not just on our timekeeping, but also things like GPS and other technologies that govern our modern life.

Small 3.3 quake hits near Hilo, Hawaii County, Hawaii, USA

2022-08-08T06:26+0200volcanodiscovery (en)

A moderately shallow magnitude 3.3 earthquake was reported early evening near Hilo, Hawaii County, Hawaii, USA. According to the United States Geological Survey, the quake hit on Sunday, August 7th, 2022, at 6:06 pm local time at a moderately shallow depth of 20 miles.

Notes from Central Taiwan: Tsunami of need

2022-08-07T18:51+0200taipeitimes (en)

Similarly, a 2015 study of coral boulders on Orchid Island (Lanyu, 蘭嶼), “Coral boulders along the coast of the Lanyu Island, offshore southeastern Taiwan, as potential paleotsunami records,” identified several out of place coral boulders that were likely due to tsunamis. “The largest boulder on the island, at Site 14, has a long axis of 7.

Mustique Charitable Trust to help rebuild homes damaged by volcano

2022-08-06T18:18+0200nationnews (en)

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent – The Mustique Charitable Trust (MCT) says it will provide EC$4.02 million for the construction of the houses in North Windward for people affected by the eruption of La Soufriere volcano in April 2021. The state-owned Roads, Building and General Services Authority (BRAGSA)....

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2022-08-06T17:05+0200informazione (it)

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Homes for Vincentians displaced by La Soufriere volcano

2022-08-06T03:50+0200jamaicaobserver (en)

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – The Mustique Charitable Trusts (MCT) says it will provide EC$4.02 million (One EC dollar=US$0.37 cents) for the construction of the houses in North Windward for people affected by the eruption of La Soufriere volcano in April 2021.

Volcano earthquake report for Saturday, 6 Aug 2022

2022-08-06T02:53+0200volcanodiscovery (en)

World map showing volcanoes with shallow (less than 50 km) earthquakes within 20 km radius during the past 24 hours on 6 Aug 2022 Number in brackets indicate nr of quakes. Quakes detected near: (1 quake mag 1.1), (1 quake mag 2.6), (1 quake mag 3.0), (1 quake mag 1.2), (3 quakes between mag 0.1-1.5), (1 quake mag 2.

MCT, BRAGSA to construct houses

2022-08-05T08:04+0200thevincentian (en)

Forty-one households from beyond the Rabacca River who experienced damage to the extent that they have nothing to return to after the volcanic eruption wrought havoc on their homes, can look to being re-housed through a joint effort of the Mustique Charitable Trust (MCT) and the Building, Roads, and General Services Authority (BRAGSA).