How to escape when an earthquake occurs
If you are in high-rise buildings when a major earthquake occurs, the first thing is to crawl under a sturdy table, not to find a way to run out.
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If you are in high-rise buildings when a major earthquake occurs, the first thing is to crawl under a sturdy table, not to find a way to run out.
The earthquake this morning made Ho Chi Minh City
The aftershock of the 4.7 magnitude earthquake occurred at 9 pm on June 23 near Phu Quy island (Binh Thuan), causing Ho Chi Minh City to shake.
A more frightening volcano of Eyjafjallajakull - which caused European air turbulence last month - is preparing to erupt.
The British oil company pumped heavy mud into oil wells that leaked out of the Gulf of Mexico from yesterday to prevent oil from escaping.
Two volcanoes in Guatemala and Ecuador erupted, killing two people, several thousand evacuating and many cities sinking in ash.
Oil continued to escape from the Gulf of Mexico bottom after BP pumped mud into the leak last week.
The oil trail behind BP's rig explosion came close to the famous white sand beaches in Florida state yesterday
Central Chile suffered 12 earthquakes over the weekend, of which nine occurred around the Pichilemu coast.
On May 7, Eyjafjoell volcano in Iceland erupted a new cloud of ash into the sky of Europe, causing officials to worry that many flights will be canceled.
After the explosion of an oil rig off the US, oil is covering an area of thousands of kilometers of sea.
Relief goods arrived in the earthquake area in northwest China, while the number of people killed was determined to be 760.
Volcanic activity in Iceland has made the world reel in the past few days, but its influence is very small compared to many other volcanoes in the past.
Before the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland, a series of flights in Europe stalled, some scientists feared that the mountain could be a disaster for many…