Two strong earthquakes (地震) took place in Turkey and Syria on Feb 6th.A survey reported that the biggest earthquake had a magnitude (震级) of 7.8.It was the strongest earthquake in that area in over 80 years.To protect ourselves better,what should we do before,durin...
As always,these stories give hope that there are many people still waiting to be rescued.But once people are pulled from the stones,there is a hard road ahead as people have lost their homes,and many have also lost their families.If you are looking for a way to help,cons...
The major aftershock was probably caused by the initial quake destabilising an adjacent fault that had also accumulated geological stresses over the years. No wonder then that Stephen Hicks, a seismologist at University College London, told Sky News on Monday that what Turkey ...
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Any eruption is not expected to cause the kind of ash cloud created by the Eyjafjallajokull eruption back in 2010, which caused chaos to global air travel. Dr Dave McGarvie, a volcanologist with the University of Lancaster said: “The volcanoes on the Reykjanes Peninsula do not have the ...
The shiny stuff (political scandals, celebrity nonsense, and more) in the long run, does not matter. We must turn away from the distractions, but it’s hard when those who “design” the distractions are very VERY good at it. The challenge with facing up to the mul...
We are keenly aware of the importance of telecommunications in emergency response situations: Facing Ebola-affected areas in West Africa, nuclear contamination after the Japanese tsunami, and the massive earthquake that struck Sichuan, China, we hold fast in disaster zones to help restore ...
Everybody hates rats.But in the earthquake capitals of the world-Japan, Los Angeles, Turkey-rats will soon be man’s new best friends. What happens after an earthquake? We send in rescue(营救)dogs.Why? Because they can smell people.Dogs save lives.They help rescuers to find living people...
5.Everybody hates rats But in the earthquake capitals of the world-Japan,Los Angeles,Turkey-rats will soon be man's new best friends What happens after an earthquake?We sent in rescue dogs.Why?Because they can smell people.Dogs save lives They help rescuers to find living people.But dogs...
In this memoir, writer Kapka Kassabova returns to her homeland of Bulgaria to explore the country’s border with Greece and Turkey. Border is a rare book: On its face a travel narrative, it also examines the tentacled effects of the Cold War and Europe’s great migration crisis. France ...