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Nevada Officials Report Damage After 5.7-Magnitude Earthquake

Nevada Officials Report Damage After 5.7-Magnitude Earthquake

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Electoral earthquake: Hungary vote triggers setback for Putin and Trump

Electoral earthquake: Hungary vote triggers setback for Putin and Trump

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Hungarian voters on Sunday ousted long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orban after 16 years in power, rejecting the authoritarian policies and global far-right movement that he embodied in favor of a pro-European challenger in a bombshell election result with global repercussions. It was a stunning blow for Orbán — a close ally of both US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin — who conceded defeat after what he called a ″painful″ election result. Source link

Magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes off north Indonesia: USGS

Magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes off north Indonesia: USGS

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JAKARTA: A 6.0 magnitude quake struck off Indonesia’s remote northern Talaud islands on Saturday (Apr 4), the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, with no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The tremor struck at a depth of 99km, some 90km southeast of Sarangani province on the Philippine island of Mindanao. Harry Sauro, a provincial disaster official, told AFP the quake was only “slightly felt” and there were no reports of damage or injuries. Earthquakes are a near-daily occurrence in the Philippines, which with Indonesia and other neighbours is situated on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, an arc of intense seismic activity stretching from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin. Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said there was no threat of a tsunami. A magnitude-9.1 quake struck Indonesia’s westernmost Aceh province in 2004, causing a tsunami and killing more than 170,000 people in Indonesia. Source link

Afghanistan earthquake kills eight members of same family | Earthquakes News

Afghanistan earthquake kills eight members of same family | Earthquakes News

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The household’s only survivor was a boy aged around two years old, who was injured in the tremor. Published On 4 Apr 20264 Apr 2026 An earthquake in Afghanistan has killed eight members of the same family when their home collapsed in the Gosfand Dara area of Kabul province. Health Ministry spokesman Sharafat Zaman said on Saturday that a child aged around two years old was the only survivor. Afghanistan’s disaster management agency said the boy was injured. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list The 5.8-magnitude quake struck at 8:42pm local time (16:12 GMT) on Friday at a depth of 186km (115 miles). The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the epicentre was in the northeastern province of Badakhshan. The capital Kabul is about 290km (180 miles) southwest of the epicentre. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage in areas closer to the epicentre. The province is remote so it can often take several hours before local authorities can relay information back to Kabul. Strong tremors were felt in multiple parts of …

Map: 7.4-Magnitude Earthquake in Indonesia Raises Tsunami Alerts

Map: 7.4-Magnitude Earthquake in Indonesia Raises Tsunami Alerts

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Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 4 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as “light,” though the earthquake may be felt outside the areas shown.  All times on the map are Eastern Indonesia time. The New York Times A major, 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck in Indonesia on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The U.S. Pacific Warning Center initially said “hazardous tsunami waves are forecast for some coasts” in the region and that tsunami waves had been observed as a result of the quake. After about two hours and 15 minutes, the center said the danger had passed. The temblor happened at 7:48 a.m. Eastern Indonesia time about 79 miles northwest of Ternate, Indonesia, data from the U.S.G.S. shows. As seismologists review available data, they may revise the earthquake’s reported magnitude. Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. Aftershocks in the region An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that follows a larger one in the same general area. Aftershocks are typically …

Map: 7.5-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes the South Pacific Ocean

Map: 7.5-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes the South Pacific Ocean

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Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 4 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as “light,” though the earthquake may be felt outside the areas shown.  All times on the map are Eastern. The New York Times A major, 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck in the South Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 12:37 a.m. Eastern about 103 miles west of Neiafu, Tonga, data from the agency shows. U.S.G.S. data earlier reported that the magnitude was 7.6. As seismologists review available data, they may revise the earthquake’s reported magnitude. Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. Aftershocks in the region An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that follows a larger one in the same general area. Aftershocks are typically minor adjustments along the portion of a fault that slipped at the time of the initial earthquake. Quakes and aftershocks within 100 miles Aftershocks can occur days, weeks or even years after the first earthquake. These events …

Ancient Historians Confirm the Darkness and Earthquake Associated with Christ’s Crucifixion – OpentheWord.org

Ancient Historians Confirm the Darkness and Earthquake Associated with Christ’s Crucifixion – OpentheWord.org

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The darkness associated with Christ’s crucifixion by Émile Bernard, Wikipedia, Public Domain Easter Sunday takes place on April 5, 2026. It marks the day that Jesus rose from the dead. So it is appropriate to deal with one of the earliest references of Christ’s crucifixion from a nonChristian source. It involves a man by the name of Thallus who around 52 AD wrote three books on the history of the Mediterranean world. This was about 30 years after Christ’s crucifixion. Though copies of his works have not survived, we know they exist as fragments have been found. His works were also referenced by several other writers. One of the most intriguing was made by a Christian writer, Sextus Julius Africanus, who died around 240 AD. He was a historian and philosopher. By all accounts he was careful in citing his sources. The Gospel writers Mark, Luke and Matthew speak of the unusual darkness that took place when Jesus was crucified. Matthew describes it this way: 45 Now from noon until three, darkness came over all the …

Nepal and Northern India are not overdue for a huge earthquake

Nepal and Northern India are not overdue for a huge earthquake

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Core samples from a lake in Nepal reveal a random pattern of historical earthquakes Zakaria Ghazoui-Schaus, BAS While some have argued northern India and western Nepal are overdue for a massive earthquake, an analysis says this is a myth, as the area has been experiencing smaller earthquakes at random for millennia. It is common for officials and media to speak about populated areas near fault lines like Istanbul, Seattle and Tokyo being “overdue” for violent earthquakes. Because the central Himalaya fault segment in India and Nepal last had a major recorded earthquake in 1505, some research has suggested that earthquakes there recur about every 500 years, and a great earthquake is now imminent. But scientists have now found at least 50 earthquakes of magnitude 6.5 or larger have taken place in this area in the past 6000 years, including eight since 1505. And these earthquakes have been occurring randomly rather than at regular intervals. “We have to stop discussing and having long debates over the periodicity of earthquakes in the Himalayas and come to an …

Architect aims to rebuild a church and help restore a quake-hit Turkish city’s multicultural past

Architect aims to rebuild a church and help restore a quake-hit Turkish city’s multicultural past

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ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — Architect Buse Ceren Gul is on a mission: restore a 166-year-old Greek Orthodox church that was long a beacon of her hometown’s multicultural past. She believes restoring the church left mostly in ruins by the earthquakes in southern Turkey three years ago will help locals reconnect to their city. The magnitude 7.8 earthquake on Feb. 6, 2023, and another hours later were among Turkey’s worst disasters. In Antakya, the quakes destroyed much of the historical town center. After years of planning, campaigning and fundraising, Gul’s team recently uncovered St. Paul’s Church from the rubble that reached up to 5 meters (16 feet). “The old city is central to the earliest memories of anyone who grew up here,” the 34-year-old Gul told The Associated Press, strolling around the church. “‘Have we vanished?’ I asked myself when I first saw the site in the aftermath of the quakes,” she said. The quakes destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of buildings in Turkey, leaving more than 53,000 people dead. Another 6,000 people were killed …

Three years after the earthquake that killed 54,000 people, legal proceedings stall

Three years after the earthquake that killed 54,000 people, legal proceedings stall

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Families of victims of the February 6, 2023, earthquake in southern Turkey demand justice, in Istanbul, on February 1, 2026. ABDULLAH TEPELI/ZUMA/SIPA Bouquets of red flowers, a carpet of candles and tears rolling down cheeks. Three years after the tragedy, people’s pain was still acute. Around the vigil, held in memory of the victims of the February 6, 2023, earthquake, the city of Kahramanmaras was in mourning. Several hundred people had gathered there, standing in the cold night air, around an altar set up by a handful of survivors who escaped the Said-Bey apartment complex, one of 7,500 structures to have been destroyed that day in Kahramanmaras, an industrious and conservative city in southern Turkey. The epicenter of the earthquake is located about 20 kilometers away. According to official figures, nearly 13,000 deaths were recorded in Kahramanmaras and its surrounding areas, out of the 54,000 officially tallied across the 11 provinces affected by the earthquake. Mass graves were dug in the city to bury more than 5,000 bodies. A city official suggested that the real …