Credit to Author: NASA| Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 18:00:29 +0000
“It’s difficult to watch this tragedy unfold, especially since we’ve known for a long time that the buildings in the region were not designed to withstand earthquakes,” said USGS scientist David Wald. “An earthquake this size has the potential to be damaging anywhere in the world, but many structures in this region are particularly vulnerable.”
Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 01:41:22 +0000
Pleasantly called natural gas and sold to many as a better solution, a good transition fuel, natural gas has been dominating new US electricity capacity alongside renewable energy. Yet, hydraulic fracking absolutely takes the “natural” out of it. Originally, natural gas was successfully sold as a cleaner transition fuel. Who knew there were not even laws on the books to address the hidden pollutants, and that there would be much information lacking about the truth of the acid stimulation, hydraulic fracturing, and other new extraction technologies
Credit to Author: Anna Merlan| Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:11:25 +0000
Independent “researchers” are sharing unfounded theories across social media, which have the potential to spread panic and confusion—and have even fooled legitimate government agencies.
Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 23:23:38 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Mikee Nazal was at home, watching television on a late Monday afternoon, when she suddenly felt like being on a “raft floating on water.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 05 May 2019 23:26:40 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — The timestamp on the CCTV footage read 5:07 p.m. on April 22, 2019. Within five seconds of the 6.1-magnitude quake, the ceiling fell, causing people inside Chuzon Supermarket in Porac, Pampanga province, to panic.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ryanl| Date: Sat, 04 May 2019 21:14:21 +0000
That was one hell of a day” was the last message I sent to a Viber group of professional geologists around 11 p.m. last April 23. I had provided virtual feeds as members of the Quick Response Team (QRT) of the University of the Philippines’ National Institute of Geological Sciences (UP-NIGS) went around Pampanga, Bataan and Zambales to assess the infrastructure damage and geologic manifestations of the 6.1-magnitude earthquake that hit these provinces the previous day.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 06:33:12 +0000
A series of earthquakes rocked the municipality of General Luna in Surigao del Norte on Friday, Phivolcs said.
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 06:55:47 +0000
Four minor earthquakes hit Eastern Visayas on Wednesday with two of these epicenters traced to Hernani town in Eastern Samar province.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 00:25:48 +0000
Two earthquakes jolted Davao Occidental Tuesday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.
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