Over 20 years ago, then Indonesian president Megawati Soekarnoputri banned the export of sea sand from her archipelago nation.
The ban was in response to the widespread environmental and economic damage it was causing. Unchecked sea sand...
Chirality refers to objects that cannot be superimposed onto their mirror images through any combination of rotations or translations, much like the distinct left and right hands of a human. In chiral crystals, the spatial arrangement...
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit Argentina, data provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) showed.
According to the agency, the epicenter of the quake was...
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck near the west coast of Honshu, Japan on Tuesday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said.
The earthquake was at a depth...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck near New Zealand's capital city of Wellington, government seismic monitor GeoNet said on Sunday, but initial reports indicated there...
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake has rocked the southern Philippines.
The quake hit Mindanao at 10.13am local time on Thursday, and recorded a depth of 626km,...
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake shook the southern coast of Peru early Friday. Authorities say there are no immediate reports of casualties.
The U.S. Geological Survey...
Taiwan's capital was hit by a series of earthquakes overnight into the early hours of Tuesday, with the Central Weather Administration saying the strongest...
Four earthquakes ranging from magnitude 4.1 to 5.3 have been recorded off the coast of Hualien County in eastern Taiwan since midnight Sunday, according...
A magnitude-5.1 earthquake occurred in southern Miyazaki Prefecture at around 10:25 April 8. The epicenter was about km (4 miles) north-northeast of Nichinan. The...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 has been registered in China's Xinjiang Region, the European Mediterranean Seismological Center reported.
The epicenter was located 58...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake shook the northeastern U.S. on Friday morning.
The earthquake was felt from Boston down to Baltimore at 10:23 a.m. ET, according...
