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A 5D platform for earthquake prevention and control

A five-dimensional (5D) smart city earthquake simulation platform was exhibited by its developer, the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE), at a press conference in Taipei o...

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A 7.5 magnitude earthquake shook northern Peru: 75 homes destroyed, no deaths reported

A 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit the remote Amazon region of northern Peru on Sunday and was felt as far as Lima in the center of the country, destroying 75 homes and a 16th-century Catholic church. Fo...

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6.1 magnitude earthquake strikes India-Myanmar border region: no reports of damage

No immediate reports of damage after a shallow and strong earthquake of magnitude 6.1 that struck the Myanmar-India border region early on Friday. According to India's National Center for Seismolog...

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Earthquake prediction in the lab using deep learning

Lives and billions of dollars in infrastructure damage every year is the cost of earthquakes in the United States. Earthquakes can occur at any time, and there is no way to predict them, at least now...

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Strengthening of a museum from earthquakes

Following structural works, the strengthening of a museum in the historic Western Australia town of York could become a model for the protection of lives and heritage buildings in other earthquake su...

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Strong earthquake hits Eastern Mediterranean: No casualties reported

A strong earthquake has struck several islands in Greece and other regions in the Eastern Mediterranean, including the southern Antalya region in Turkey as well as cities in Egypt. The temblor was...

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Magnitude 6.1 quake in Tokyo: blackouts but no tsunami warning

No reports of major damage, Japan's public broadcaster NHK said, after the strong earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1, which jolted Tokyo late on Thursday, October 7th, 2021. The quake ca...

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Australia: Magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes near Melbourne

A 5.9 magnitude quake hit near Mansfield in the state of Victoria in southern Australia on Wednesday September 22th at 2:15 a.m local time, as the Geoscience Australia, reported. The temblor was so...

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5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Crete island in Greece

On Monday September 27th, many buildings on the island of Crete, Greece were damaged and some reduced to piles of rubble from an 5.8-magnitude earthquake and strong aftershocks. According to the Athe...

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Chile: powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake rocks South America nation

On Tuesday morning, September 21st 2021, at 8:14 am local time a strong earthquake shook buildings in the Chilean city of Concepcion. No immediate reports of damage were made. The earthquake hit C...

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