Puerto Rico (The United States of America): Neither Inside or Out: A Puerto Rican Neighborhood Devastated by Earthquakes Confronts Covid-19

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 05:31:00 +0200reliefWeb (en)

Residents of Barrio La Luna, in the municipality of Guánica, slept in tents, cars, and temporary wooden shelters after repeated earthquakes devastated their community. By Talya Meyers. Barrio La Luna, a neighborhood of about 30 houses in the municipality of Guánica, Puerto Rico, has repeatedly felt....

Moumita Das

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 05:24:00 +0200ibtimes-in (en)

Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi's remarks came a day after Rajnath Singh took a jibe at the Congress after the former asked questions about India's border conflict with China. 15 hours ago A low-intensity earthquake with a magnitude of 2.1 on the Richter Scale hit the national capital today.

Un nouveau tremblement de terre frappe le sud de l'Iran

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 22:26:00 +0200french.china.org.cn (fr)

Un tremblement de terre, d'une magnitude de 5,7, a frappé mardi la région de Beiram, dans la province de Fars, au sud de l'Iran, selon le Centre sismologique iranien. L'épicentre, à une pr of ondeur de 10 km, a été observé à 27,626 degrés de latitude nord et 53,461 degrés de longitude est, selon le centre.

Do you have an action plan if major earthquake hits Delhi, HC asks AAP govt

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 14:01:00 +0200business-standard (en)

asked the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government and civic authorities on Tuesday how well prepared they are if a major tremor hits the city. A bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rajnish Bhatnagar asked the Delhi government, the three municipal corporations, cantonment board, DDA and New Delhi Municipal....

MIL-OSI Asia-Pac: World News in Brief: June 9

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 12:30:00 +0200foreignaffairs-nz (en)

* The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday reported 1,938,823 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 17,919 cases from its previous count, and said that the number of deaths had risen by 474 to 110,375. * Brazil reported 679 new COVID-19 deaths and 15,654 additional confirmed cases on Monday.

Indonesia says quake hits south of Buru island, no tsunami risk

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 09:12:00 +0200reuters-in (en)

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An earthquake with a 6.0 magnitude struck south of Buru Island in the Moluccas Islands province in eastern Indonesia, the country’s meteorology, climatology and geophysical agency (BMKG) said on Tuesday. The quake, which had a depth of 10 km (6.

Indonesia says quake hits south of Buru island, no tsunami risk

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 08:30:00 +0200wsau (en)

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An earthquake with a 6.0 magnitude struck south of Buru Island in the Moluccas Islands province in eastern Indonesia, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysical agency (BMKG) said on Tuesday. The quake, which had a depth of 10 km (6.

Indonesia says quake hits south of Buru island, no tsunami risk

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 08:16:00 +0200malaymail (en)

. JAKARTA, June 9 — An earthquake with a 6.0 magnitude struck south of Buru Island in the Moluccas Islands province in eastern Indonesia, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysical agency (BMKG) said today. The quake, which had a depth of 10 km, was not expected to trigger a tsunami, the agency added in a bulletin posted on Twitter.

Indonesia says quake hits south of Buru island, no tsunami risk

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 07:55:00 +0200themalaymailonline (en)

. JAKARTA, June 9 — An earthquake with a 6.0 magnitude struck south of Buru Island in the Moluccas Islands province in eastern Indonesia, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysical agency (BMKG) said today. The quake, which had a depth of 10 km, was not expected to trigger a tsunami, the agency added in a bulletin posted on Twitter.

Magnitude 3.9 mild earthquake strikes Jammu & Kashmir, epicenter near Srinagar

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 07:28:00 +0200dnaindia (en)

A mild earthquake hit Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) on early Tuesday morning, news agencies reported. The National Center for Seismology later confirmed that the earthquake, which measured a magnitude of 3.9 on the Richter Scale, had its epicenter 15 kilometers north-northeast of Srinagar at a depth of 10 km.

Huge Newfound Underwater Volcano Continues To Rumble

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 02:25:00 +0200forbes (en)

MAYOTTE, COMORO ISLANDS, FRANCE - 15 JULY 2015: (SOUTH AFRICA OUT) The French island of Mayotte is located in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar in the Mozambique Channel.(Photo by Gallo Images / USGS / NASA Landsat data / Orbital Horizon) Getty Images. The emergence of a large volcano rising from the....

'A Lot On Our Plates', Kiwis invited to take part in new campaign - EQC

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 01:39:00 +0200voxy (en)

Aotearoa New Zealand is a land shaped by immense plate boundary forces. Now, a new education campaign wants to make Kiwis more aware about the risk those forces pose and encourage them to take steps to be better prepared for the next earthquake or tsunami.

Delhi hit by another earthquake

Mon, 08 Jun 2020 12:17:00 +0200mumbaimirror (en)

New Delhi : The national capital on Monday was jolted by an earthquake with an epicentre at Gurugram, Haryana. This is the ninth time in two months that Delhi has been hit by a quake. "An earthquake with a magnitude of 2.1 on the Richter Scale hit 13km WNW of Gurugram, Haryana at 1 pm today," said....

Magnitude 2.1 low-intensity earthquake hits Gurugram, Delhi

Mon, 08 Jun 2020 12:00:00 +0200dnaindia (en)

A mild earthquake measuring 2.1 on the Richter Scale hit Gurugram in Haryana at about 1 PM on Monday. The National Center for Seismology has confirmed that the epicenter of the earthquake was 13 kilometers West-Northwest of Gurugram. The tremors were felt in Delhi as well. An extremely mild earthquake measuring 1.

Indonesia, Earthquake in North Maluku (17:45 Jun 5 2020)

Mon, 08 Jun 2020 10:35:00 +0200reliefWeb (en)

Description. JAKARTA - Dozens of houses were damaged by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that occurred yesterday afternoon (4/6). Damaged houses are spread in 6 subdistricts in the Morotai Islands Regency. BNPB Operational Control Center (Pusdalops) reported as of Friday (5/6), at 22.

Magnitude-6.8 earthquake strikes Morotai, damaging 312 homes: BNPB

Mon, 08 Jun 2020 08:40:00 +0200antaranews-en (en)

an illustration - The quake's epicenter on Morotai Island, North Maluku. Jakarta (ANTARA) - A 6.8-magnitude earthquake jolting Morotai District, North Maluku Province, on Thursday (June 4), caused damage to at least 312 homes in six sub-districts, Raditya Jati, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency’s (BNPB’s) spokesman, reported.

Rodrigues : séisme enregistré à 795 km au large de Port…

Sun, 07 Jun 2020 14:12:00 +0200lemauricien (fr)

Un séisme de magnitude 5,1 sur l’échelle de Richter a été enregistré à 795 km à l’Est-Sud- Est de Port Mathurin, ce dimanche 7 juin. Le tremblement de terre a été enregistré à 7h39 ce matin. Selon la station météorologique de Vacoas, « aucune secousse n’a été ressentie à Rodrigues ».

Mild earthquake hits Delhi-NCR; epicentre at Rohtak

Sun, 07 Jun 2020 12:51:00 +0200dnaindia (en)

An earthquake measuring 1.3 on the Richter Scale hit close to the national capital at 11:55 am on Sunday (June 7). According to the National Center for Seismology,the extremely mild earthquake had its epicentre at the depth of 5 kilometres at 23 km south of southeast of Rohtak district in Haryana. Already two earthquakes of magnitude 4.

Coronavirus disrupts global fight to save endangered species

Sun, 07 Jun 2020 05:14:00 +0200suntimes (en)

In this undated photo provided by the Association of Forest Communities of Petén on June 2020, Alvaro Ba operates a drone within the BioItza reserve in northern Guatemala to assess the characteristics of a forest fire. Alvaro is an associate of one of the community organizations that forms ACOFOP,....

Coronavirus disrupts global fight to save endangered species WASHINGTON (AP) — Biologist Carlos Ruiz has spent a quarter-century working to save golden lion tamarins, the charismatic long-maned monkeys native to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Thanks to painstaking reforestation efforts, the population of these endangered monkeys was steadily growing until an outbreak of yellow fever hit Brazil in 2018, wiping out a third of the tamarins. Undeterred, Ruiz’s team devised an ambitious new experiment: This spring,... Associated Press

Sat, 06 Jun 2020 16:53:00 +0200msn-uk (en)

© Provided by Associated Press This 2019 photo provided by Noel Rowe and Centre ValBio shows a golden bamboo lemur in Madagascar. Conservation isn’t work that can simply be dropped for a while, then picked up again, “because it depends so much on relationships with people and local communities,"....

Our homes will change after COVID-19, says TV star

Sat, 06 Jun 2020 01:07:00 +0200qt (en)

Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud believes Australians will abandon their new found fetish for sour dough and other artisanal pursuits picked up during the pandemic as soon as authorities "take the clamps of f". The beloved TV presenter and design expert reluctantly predicts our acute fascination for....