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Related: EARTHQUAKES • Hazard Management • 1 Earthquakes GENERALEverything to Know About Earthquakes You Should:DROP down onto your hands and knees (before the earthquakes knocks you down). This position protects you from falling but allows you to still move if necessary.COVER your head and neck (and your entire body if possible) under a sturdy table or desk. If there is no shelter nearby, only then should you get down near an interior wall (or next to low-lying furniture that won't fall on you), and cover your head and neck with your arms and hands.HOLD ON to your shelter (or to your head and neck) until the shaking stops. Be prepared to move with your shelter if the shaking shifts it around. You Should NOT:RUN OUTSIDE or to other rooms during shaking: The area near the exterior walls of a building is the most dangerous place to be.
You live in a world full of risks. These are the biggest The past year will be remembered for dramatic political results that broke with consensus expectations: Brexit, the surprise election victory of Donald Trump, the ongoing refugee crisis, increasing geopolitical tensions and the continued threat of terrorism all left their stamp on 2016. As the World Economic Forum looks at perceived risks in its 2017 Global Risk Report, some of these trends come out very clearly as pressing concerns for our future. In this year’s annual survey, some 750 experts assessed 30 global risks, as well as 13 underlying trends that could amplify them or alter the interconnections between them. Image: World Economic Forum Extreme weather most likely threat
Christianity and Sex, A Free Man's Worship from the book Why I Am Not a Christian and other essays on religion and related subjects by Bertrand Russell Christianity and Sex, A Free Man's Worship excerpted from the book Why I Am Not a Christian and other essays on religion and related subjects Mexico earthquake: New tremor halts rescue operations Image copyright EPA A strong tremor in southern Mexico temporarily suspended the search for survivors of this week's powerful earthquake in the capital, Mexico City. People ran into the streets as alarms sounded after the magnitude 6.1 quake hit the state of Oaxaca, some 520km (323 miles) south of Mexico City. Some buildings already damaged and a bridge collapsed in the state.
The 10 deadliest earthquakes in history A look at the worst earthquakes in recorded history, in loss of human life. (The March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsumani that affected eastern Japan is not included because the fatalities caused, about 15,000, are fewer than those resulting from the temblors listed below.) Sources: United States Geological Survey, Encyclopedia Britannica 1: Shensi, China, Jan. 23, 1556 Magnitude about 8, about 830,000 deaths. This earthquake occurred in the Shaanxi province (formerly Shensi), China, about 50 miles east-northeast of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi. More than 830,000 people are estimated to have been killed. Damage extended as far away as about 270 miles northeast of the epicenter, with reports as far as Liuyang in Hunan, more than 500 miles away.
*****Inertia: UK Police defend choice to warn thousands to evacuate as storm falters Police and Environment Agency officials today defended their decision to warn tens of thousands of people living near the east coast of England to leave their homes because they were at risk of flooding. Thousands were evacuated on Friday after the Environment Agency issued 17 severe weather warnings – which warn of danger to life – with people living in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex told they were most at risk. But in the early hours of Saturday the final tranche of those who had heeded the warnings and left – a group of residents from Jaywick, Essex – were told they could return home. While they expressed relief that the predicted storm surge had failed to deliver the chaos expected, some questioned whether the warnings had been necessary. Many had refused to leave their homes, despite an emergency services evacuation plan and pleas from Essex police for them to move to safety. Resident Brenda Smith, 71, one of those who refused to leave, described the warnings as a “load of rubbish”.
Adam Kokesh and Transvestites, Potheads, Anarchists and Atheists “ I will be praying for Adam Kokesh, for his safety, that God will guide him. ” Those were the final words of my column last week. Despite my prayers, Adam is now in a Federal Detention Center, being held without bail, charged with assaulting a federal officer and resisting arrest. But there’s one problem: I’ve watched several videos of the event (from different angles) and there appears to be no evidence to support the government’s charge.
Radiation Levels in Japan We all know radiation has been a problem in Japan, but to what severity? This visualization shows the radiation levels in five Japanese cities over time, and the amount of time you would need to stay in those cities to experience radiation sickness. Radiation Levels in Central Japan <br /><a href="#"><img alt="Radiation Levels in Central Japan " src="http://public.tableausoftware.com/static/images/Ra/Radiation/RadiationLevelsinCentralJapan/1_rss.png" height="100%" /></a>
The moving story of plate tectonics Today no-one doubts that the Earth’s surface is made up from a moving jigsaw of tectonic plates. Primary school children learn that South America was once connected to Africa, and that India’s collision with Asia pushed up the Himalayas. In hindsight plate tectonics seems obvious, and yet just 60 years ago the prevailing view was that continents were fixed in place. Back in 1912 Alfred Wegener, a German geophysicist, noticed that if Earth’s landmasses were pushed together their boundaries appeared to fit loosely together, leading him to hypothesise that continents slowly drift around the Earth. But the idea was met with scepticism, and it wasn’t until 1965 that the tide of opinion really changed.
Types of earthquakes What are the types of earthquakes? Earthquakes can come in three main forms, depending on the plate movements that occur beneath the earth's surface. They could occur on a Convergent Boundary, Divergent Boundary or a Transform Fault. Convergent boundary: Here, one plate is forced over another plate during movement creating a thrust fault. Pakistan's plan to cut disaster risk aims at a new target: ... Effort to cut child deaths includes new construction standards for schools, evacuation drills and putting climate risks into the curriculum By Saleem Shaikh SAJAWAL, Pakistan, Oct 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When seven hours of non-stop rain led to a flash flood that swept through his village school, leaving it heavily damaged, science teacher Ali Zamin Samejo had to be hospitalised for shock.
Local governments take a hit in Statehouse property tax deal At first sight, a property tax reform deal is like a unicorn. It’s astounding, really. You figured you might not live to see one. But there it is, with enough votes to actually pass the Iowa Senate and House.