Some 230 million people in the United States face the potential of damaging earthquakes in 100 years, according to the latest U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model, or NSHM. That’s about 40 million more people than the NHSM previously suggested.
“This hazard model forecasts where we think the future earthquakes will occur,” and moreover, where there’s “the chance of having any damage from an earthquake,” says geophysicist Mark Petersen of the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver.
For more than 2,000 years, the lost city of Atlantis has fascinated treasure hunters and explorers.
But despite countless theories and decades of searching, the lost city has remained stubbornly lost.
While Atlantis itself may be nothing more than a myth, archaeologists have uncovered real sunken cities all over the world.
From a ‘cursed’ town in Germany to a mysterious underwater pyramid in Japan, these drowned worlds may be even stranger than any legend.
So if you feel like hunting
It is a question that frequently pops up on pub quizzes: how many of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World can you name?
Perhaps more pertinently, how many are still standing?
The answer, as a new book reveals, is only one: the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World, by historian Bettany Hughes, tells the story of each of the glittering marvels of engineering.
Five of the six that are now lost to the past
Tucked away in an industrial nook of San Francisco is a Norman-style castle, complete with a turret built more than 150 years ago and a toilet in the shape of a throne.
A documentary by filmmaker Kirsten Dirksen takes viewers inside the walls of Albion Castle, and even she says after living in the city for a decade, she never knew about the stately abode.
The place is currently owned by Bill Gilbert, a retired San Francisco police officer and
A Japanese air traffic controller and the captain of a Coast Guard plane that collided with a passenger jet on Tuesday have given competing accounts of the deadly crash.
Japan’s transport authorities began inspecting the charred remains of the two planes on Wednesday and retrieved the Coast Guard plane’s black box, while local media said police were investigating possible professional negligence in the case.
All 379 people aboard the Japan Airlines (JAL) Airbus A350 had a miraculous escape after it
At least 48 people have died following the devastating 7.6 magnitude earthquake that rocked Japan’s main island of Honshu yesterday, reducing tens of thousands of houses and buildings to rubble and leaving terrified survivors to brave sub-zero temperatures on the streets, unable to return to their homes.
Dozens of people are still missing and unaccounted for amid the New Year’s disaster, with the death toll expected to rise sharply as rescuers begin to recover victims buried beneath the debris.
Forty-eight
Fears for the future of an Icelandic fishing town are mounting as a nearby volcano threatens to erupt at any moment – with a nine-mile fissure splitting the town in half and authorities saying that increased sulphur dioxide levels have been detected.
Aerial footage shows apocalyptic scenes in the small town of Grindavik, with huge cracks appearing in roads and under buildings which were completely deserted when all 4,000 residents were told to evacuate.
Residents who were allowed to return
Hezbollah’s leader has said the Israel-Hamas ‘battle’ has ‘extended to more than one front’ in his first speech since the October 7 attack, raising fears the Lebanese terror group is set to enter the conflict and spark a wider conflict in the region.
The powerful terror group’s chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah praised the Alaqsa Flood – a name used by Hamas for its vicious attack last month – and said the ‘glorious jihadi operation’ led to an ‘earthquake’ in the
Israel has confirmed that it was behind an airstrike at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, where the Hamas-run health authority has claimed more than 50 people have been killed and 150 wounded.
Israel Defence Forces’ (IDF) spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that Israeli fighter jets carried out the attack, which he claimed killed a senior Hamas commander and caused the terror group’s underground infrastructure to collapse.
The IDF claimed that Ibrahim Biari, the commander of Hamas’s Central
