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Topic: earthquake

China to give $200,000 emergency aid to earthquake-stricken Morocco

Chinese medical workers in Morocco have been actively helping victims, including during aftershocks, state broadcaster CGTN reported.

Deadly earthquake in Morocco kills over 2000 people, leaves more than 2,500 injured

The quake was recorded at a depth of 18.5 km, typically more destructive than deeper quakes of the same magnitude. It was Morocco’s deadliest earthquake since 1960.

PM Modi assures ‘all possible assistance’ to earthquake-hit Morocco

A powerful earthquake that struck Morocco late Friday killed at least 296 people, the country's Interior Ministry said.

Morocco earthquake kills over 1,000 people, rescuers dig for survivors

The magnitude 7.2 quake struck in Morocco's High Atlas mountains late on Friday night. A local official said most deaths were in mountain areas that were hard to reach.

5.4-magnitude earthquake hits Jammu and Kashmir, tremors felt in Delhi, parts of north India

The quake struck moments after 1.30 pm and lasted a few seconds.

IIT Roorkee works towards improving earthquake warning time to 40 seconds or more

Start-up incubated at IIT is working on advancing the system, increasing warning time. Its head says alert is sent out to public via their app for quakes stronger than magnitude of 5.

Using ISRO satellites to map risks, draining glacial lakes – how Indian scientists plan to mitigate quake impact

Scientists also need to work on developing new models & identifying earthquake precursors, says a senior official at workshop held in New Delhi Wednesday.

Nicobar Island jolted with 4.6 magnitude earthquake

On Sunday, an earthquake of magnitude 5.3 occurred at a depth of 10 km, Nicobar Island, according to the National Center for Seismology.

9 dead, 44 injured after 6.5 magnitude earthquake hits Pakistan, says govt official

19 houses were partially damaged by the earthquake, Abdul Basit, a senior official in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government said on Wednesday.

Manufacturing activity in Turkey’s southeast at risk due to earthquake disaster

To ease the fallout, the Turkish government has rolled out short-work allowances for workers and easier access to loans for affected companies.

On Camera

From Vedanta, India turned to Nehruvian socialism and buried its liberal roots: Sharad Joshi

An Indian Hitler will have to be exceptionally lucky to survive for any length of time. This much hope ought to be enough for seekers of liberty and equality, wrote Sharad Anantrao Joshi, president of Swatantra Bharat Paksh party, in 1995.

Easy loans, uneasy ‘debt traps’. Women harassed by private lenders ask ‘who will restore lost dignity?’

A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.

Ahead of SCO meet, Russia & China stage maiden joint submarine patrol in Sea of Japan, East China Sea

Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.