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Causes of shack fires. Shack fires are often termed accidents but this has been contested by shack dweller's organisations. Martin J. Murray argues that by "recruiting human frailty or sheer accident to their cause, key city-builders have been able to rationalize municipal policy-choices that have accomplished little toward changing the circumstances under which the urban poor—who bear the ...
Earthquake and tsunami modelers are beginning to assess how the new data affects earthquake scenarios for the Pacific Northwest. ... A quake that powerful could cause shaking that lasts about five ...
A convoy of fire engines in the tsunami zone. The aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami included both a humanitarian crisis and massive economic impacts. The tsunami created over 300,000 refugees in the Tōhoku region of Japan, and resulted in shortages of food, water, shelter, medicine and fuel for survivors. 15,900 deaths have ...
The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that the onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) cool period ( stadial) at the end of the Last Glacial Period, around 12,900 years ago was the result of some kind of extraterrestrial event with specific details varying between publications. [1] : . Sec 1 The hypothesis is controversial and not widely ...
Paranormal. Spontaneous human combustion ( SHC) is the pseudoscientific [1] concept of the spontaneous combustion of a living (or recently deceased) human body without an apparent external source of ignition. In addition to reported cases, descriptions of the alleged phenomenon appear in literature, and both types have been observed to share ...
Some withstood the earthquake only to be gutted by fire. Trapped people had to be left to burn as people were unable to free them in time. [citation needed] It took until the following afternoon for the main fires to go out, but the ruins still smouldered for several days. [citation needed] In Hastings, the fires were quickly brought under control.
A series of earthquakes and aftershocks striking the border region between southeast Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday is feared to have killed 20,000 people.. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake ...
2006 Kīholo Bay earthquake. / 19.877; -155.935. The 2006 Kīholo Bay earthquake occurred on October 15 at 07:07:49 local time with a magnitude of 6.7 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII ( Severe ). The shock was centered 21 kilometers (13 mi) southwest of Puakō and 21 km (13 mi) north of Kailua-Kona, Hawaiʻi, just offshore of the Kona ...