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An earthquake of 7.6 magnitude struck off the Philippines on Friday destroying roads and bridges. A lot of people moved to higher areas because of tsunami warnings. The quake was centered off the east coast, 91 miles (146 km) off the town of Guiuan. The region has been hit by devastating quakes in the past decade. Last year,…

Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, stepped outside the International Space Station to attend some maintenance issues in ISS. However, they had difficulties driving the bolts to secure the replacement switching unit and therefore were unable to fix it. The outing was fifth spacewalk for Sunita and it lasted 8 hours and…

The Cook Islands announced the creation of the world’s largest marine park Tuesday. It is an enormous marine park almost twice the size of France at 1.065 million square Kilometer. It is amazing that tiny island nations have created such a huge marine park. The Cook Islands, nation of 20,000 people on 15 islands. Previously the world’s…

An Air India plane had crashed in the French Alps in January 1966. Exactly 46 years after the incident and around the same spot, a jute bag containing diplomatic mail from India was found by a mountain rescue worker Arnaud Christmann and his neighbour Jules Berger. “Some tourists came and told us they had seen something shining…

New Orleans is getting in a defensive mode as Hurricane Isaac is beating the city with strong winds and drenching rain. Louisiana city is currently under attack exactly seven years after the devastating Hurricane Katrina. Thankfully Issac is not as strong as Katrina. Sea water has already crossed the safe levels in the  southern part of…

Curiosity sent back home the news pictures that it had clicked. This color panorama shows a 360-degree view of the landing site of NASA’s Curiosity rover, including the highest part of Mount Sharp visible to the rover. The rover is around 12 miles away from the base of Mount Sharp.   Photo Credit: NASA   

A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.3 hit El Salvador coast on Sunday. El Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. It borders pacific ocean from one side. There was a Tsunami warning issued for the neighbouring countries such as Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama and Mexico which was later…

Isaac is a large storm and could bring lot of damage to areas within hundreds of miles of its center. This comes seven years after Hurricane Katrina which devastated New Orleans. After hitting  Florida the storm is moving Northwest towards Alabama and Louisiana. The Republican governors of Alabama and Louisiana are trying to focus on preventing the damage that will…

A powerful typhoon has crashed into the Japanese island of Okinawa, forcing thousands of residents move to safer public buildings on the island. All domestic and international flights out of the island’s Naha Airport have been cancelled. A lot of areas have no electricity. The latest typhoon is the 15th storm that can do a lot of…