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Japan's century of efforts to tame earthquakes
AFP, Published on 30/08/2023
» TOKYO - Takashi Hosoda was in a Tokyo skyscraper when the 9.0 magnitude quake struck on March 11, 2011, but the trained architect was "not particularly worried" as modern Japanese buildings are designed to protect their occupants.
To save a ruin, send in sheep
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 15/01/2023
» On a bright morning in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, a stout shepherd with a wool sweater stretched over his belly whistled and clicked and steered his flock of sheep to a grassy slope above Pompeii's frescoed ruins.
Disabled dodging bombs in war
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/10/2022
» In her rundown apartment building on the edge of Kharkiv, a city in northeastern Ukraine, Antonina Andriyenko felt the vibrations but couldn't hear the explosions when Russia invaded in late February. She knew something was happening only when her panicked neighbours rushed to leave.
Pompeii Moves With the Times
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 27/03/2022
» On a recent morning at the necropolis of Porta Sarno, just outside Pompeii's eastern edge, Mattia Buondonno gingerly raised a protective tarp covering a tomb discovered last year.
Sinking city: Indonesia's capital on brink of disaster
AFP, Published on 16/08/2019
» JAKARTA - Time is running out for Jakarta.
N.Korea believed to have conducted 6th nuclear test
Published on 03/09/2017
» SEOUL - North Korea likely conducted its sixth nuclear test Sunday, South Korea's military said after detecting a strong earthquake near the North's main nuclear test site.
South Korea clearing up after strongest ever quake
AFP, Published on 13/09/2016
» SEOUL - South Korea was clearing up on Tuesday after being struck by its most powerful earthquake since records began.
5.4-magnitude quake hits southern S. Korea: USGS
AFP, Published on 12/09/2016
» SEOUL - A powerful 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit the southern region of South Korea Monday evening, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, following an earlier quake of 4.9-magnitude.
5.4-magnitude quake hits southern S. Korea
Published on 12/09/2016
» SEOUL - A powerful 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit the southern region of South Korea Monday evening, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, following an earlier quake of 4.9-magnitude.
N. Korea's nuclear threat growing after largest test: analysts
AFP, Published on 10/09/2016
» SEOUL - North Korea's nuclear threat has grown significantly following its latest and largest nuclear test and a series of missile launches, analysts say, with some South Korean newspapers even theorising about an atomic attack on Seoul.