to know that your standardhomeowners insurance policydoesn’t cover damage from earthquakes. For damage caused by seismic activity, you’ll need an additional endorsement, on your policy. If you live in an especially high-risk area, likeCalifornia, you may need a separateearthquake insurance ...
They are working with a search and rescue group called GEA, who are based in Turkey, a country with frequent earthquakes and hoping that by next year they’ll be able to take the rats to Turkey for trials.1. What advantage do rats have over dogs in the rescue work? A.They are ...
Shown is a replica of the Uluburun shipwreck, a Bronze Age vessel discovered off the coast of Kas, Turkey. The ship dates to between 1330 and 1300 B.C. and was carrying a full cargo of trade goods. Not unlike today, a truly "globalized" economy once existed in the Late Bronze Age ...
A decade has passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. Did Japan get over the damages caused by the catastrophic quake and is actualizing the recovery that people expected? What lessons have we learned from the insufficient preparedness for tsunami, earthquake, and nuclear accident to better pr...
A 7.0 magnitude(级)earthquake killed more than 230,000 people in Haiti.Then an 8.8 magnitude quake killed more than 900 people in Chile.And few weeks later, a 6.0 magnitude quake struck rural eastern Turkey, killing at least 57 people. The earthquakes kept coming hard and fast.1It’s not...
This is a spinoff from the previous post. In that post, we remarked that whenever one receives a new piece of information , the prior odds between an alternative hypothesis and a null hypothesis is updated to a posterior odds , which can be computed via Bayes’ theorem by the formula wh...
15. What does the man need to do with the records? A. To collect them. B. To update them. C. To return them. 16. Why does the lunch club need more drivers? A. It promises to provide a lift for its members...
In 2003, British Airways and Air France both stopped Concorde service. Sonic booms are still heard in the U.S. from the nation’s military aircraft. In 2021, a sonic boom from F-15 fighter jets caused widespread concern that there was an earthquake on the Oregon coast. WHAT IS THE ...
It was called the most severe and protracted episode of climactic cooling in the northern hemisphere in the last 2,000-years, and was believed to have been caused by at least three simultaneous eruptions of uncertain origin with worldwide effects for several years....
As always, this is a labour of love, but it aligns with an important message I share all the time– it is time to pay attention to the information that matters, and what is going on in our world matters. The shiny stuff (political scandals, celebrity nonsense, and...