2010 - the number of people killed by unusually high natural disasters
The number of deaths due to natural disasters worldwide changes every year and often tends to increase. Disaster experts say that increase is due in part to an increase…
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The number of deaths due to natural disasters worldwide changes every year and often tends to increase. Disaster experts say that increase is due in part to an increase…
In the early morning of April 14, a 6.9-magnitude earthquake occurred in Yushu County, Qinghai Province, China, killing at least 400 people.
The earthquake in China on April 14 was just one of dozens of strong earthquakes that occurred from the beginning of the year.
Instead of appearing at the intersection of two tectonic plates like the big earthquakes of the year, the earthquake in China yesterday occurred inside a tectonic plate.
A 8.8-magnitude quake struck Chile this morning, killing at least 78 people, collapsing buildings and causing tsunami warnings across Asia.
Earthquake - the most horrifying disaster in the past 10 years according to the UN report.
On February 18, a horrific snowfall claimed 20 lives in a mountainous village in northern Pakistan, while another 30 were still buried in a 1.5-2m thick snow.
According to the Natural Geological Science magazine on February 21, weather experts were able to predict the El Nino phenomenon before 14 months, much earlier than just…
According to Xinhua, on January 31, in the southwestern province of Sichuan, there was a magnitude 5 earthquake, killing at least one person, 11 were injured.
The Oceanographic Research and Development Agency Japan has embarked on the development of a technology to turn carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) into natural methane gas.
The US Geological Survey (USGS) said that on January 4, two earthquakes of 6.5 and 7.2 magnitude near Solomon Islands in the South Pacific were occurred.
Extremely rare natural phenomenon - curled snow into a tubular shape - has been seen in the UK during a recent snowstorm.
The 7-magnitude earthquake that destroyed Haiti on January 12 has been evaluated by scientists as having 35 times the power to destroy the atomic bomb that destroyed Hir…
If the lake is considered a green lung of Hanoi, the pollution is the cancer of this lung.
Africa's most powerful active volcano Nyamuragira in Congo suddenly erupted violently on January 2, threatening the ecology of a national park.