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The Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge Earthquake of 17 June 2015 - Magnitude 7.0

Earthquake Atlantic

2018-04-04

The June 17, 2015 M 7.0 Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge earthquake occurred as the result of left-lateral strike-slip faulting on or n...
Earthquake Occurred in Guerrero Near Mexico on April 18, 2014

Earthquake Mexico

2018-04-04

The April 18, 2014 M 7.2 earthquake near the Pacific coast of Mexico occurred in the state of Guerrero, 265 km southwest of Mexic...
An Earthquake Occurred in Peru on 25 September 2013

Earthquake Peru

2018-04-03

The Peru earthquake of September 25, 2013, occurred as thrust-faulting on or near the thrust-interface at the boundary between th...
An Earthquake Occurred in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska on August 30, 2013

Earthquake Alaska

2018-04-03

The August 30, 2013 M 7.0 earthquake in the southeast of Adak, Alaska, occurred as the result of thrust faulting on or near the s...
The Earthquakes Occurred inin Taiwan on February 5, 2016

Earthquake Taiwan

2018-04-03

The February 5, 2016 M 6.4 earthquake east of Tainan in southern Taiwan occurred as the result of oblique thrust faulting at shal...
The October 14, 2014 earthquake in El Salvador

Earthquake El Salvador

2018-04-03

The October 14, 2014 M 7.3 earthquake off the coast of El Salvador occurred as the result of normal faulting in the Central Ameri...
Worst natural disasters of 2015---Flood of a century soaks Chennai, India

Flood Natural disaster India

2018-04-03

Weeks of torrential rains in November caused the worst flooding the southern India city of Chennai has seen in 100 years. The res...
World parliament assembly calls for action on famine, drought in Africa

Africa Drought

2018-04-03

The 136th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly chaired by Uganda's Rebecca Kadaga, ended on Wednesday with the adoption of the Dhak...
Nepal Disaster--- an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale hit Nepal On April 25, 2015

earthquake Kathmandu

2018-03-30

On April 25, 2015, an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale hit Nepal. The epicentre of the quake was in Lamjung, 50 mile...
Florida's toxic Lake Okeechobee: Flooding, algae, pollution

Flood pollution

2018-03-30

For months during 2016, plumes of toxic algae turned South Florida's emerald waters the color of coffee, smothered its inlets und...

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