Earthquake of magnitude 6.4 strikes near Zagreb, Croatia

An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck a town in Croatia today (29 December) and video footage showed people being rescued from rubble. The GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said the quake hit at a depth of 10 kilometres (six miles), write … Read More

Bushfire trauma ‘can linger for years’

The emotional and psychological effects of bushfires can last for years, Australian Red Cross says. People whose lives were devastated by last summer’s bushfires could face increased trauma during the upcoming anniversary, the Australian Red Cross says. Australian Red Cross … Read More

Hawaii’s Mount Kilauea Erupts, Putting Thousands At Risk

Mount Kilauea on Hawaii’s Big Island erupted Sunday for the first time since 2018. A 4.4 magnitude earthquake on the volcano’s south flank followed the blast, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The USGS first reported the 9:36 … Read More

M6.5 quake hits northeastern Japan, no tsunami warning issued

TOKYO (Kyodo) — An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 rattled northeastern Japan on early Monday, but no tsunami warning was issued, the weather agency said. The quake at 2:23 a.m. with its focus at a depth of 43 kilometers … Read More

Japan snowfall leaves thousands without power, vehicles stranded

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called an emergency meeting after 10,000 households lost electricity and 1,000 vehicles got stuck on roads The heavy snowfall was centred on Niigata and Gunma prefectures, which have had about 2 metres of snow over three … Read More

Hunger study predicts 168,000 pandemic-linked child deaths

FILE – In this Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 file photo, two-year-old Akon Morro, who is anemic and suffers from edema due to malnutrition, sits on the floor of a feeding center in Al Sabah Children’s Hospital in the capital Juba, … Read More

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