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Super-aged Japan now has 9 million vacant homes. And that’s a problem
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe number of vacant houses in Japan has surged to a record high of nine million – more than enough...
Japan economy expected to shrink in Q1 due to weak consumption - Reuters poll
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 10 hours agoJapan's economy likely contracted an annualised 1.5% in the January-March quarter as all key drivers...
Earthquake map shows biggest global tremors in 2024 so far
Newsweek· 4 days agoEarthquakes occur several hundred times a day, every day, all over the globe. It is only the notable earthquakes, usually of a magnitude 6 or higher, that ...
Can heavy snowfall trigger earthquakes? A new study suggests a link
NBC Universal via AOL· 2 days agoHeavy snowfall could be a factor in triggering swarms of earthquakes, a study suggests, based on...
Why Japan is struggling to kick its coal dependency
Vox· 8 hours agoCoal is the dirtiest fossil fuel by far, producing more particulate air pollution and global warming gasses than any other, per unit of energy. Last...
Alaska has a 'first-rate' earthquake monitoring system. The hard part is defending it against...
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoMay 9—GLACIER VIEW — On a grassy schoolyard overlooking the Matanuska Glacier, a group of eminent seismologists from around the globe jumped up and down. They stamped their feet into the grass ...
3 BRILLIANT MINUTES: Could climate change contribute to earthquakes
WBAY Green Bay· 20 hours agoMIT researchers have made a connection between excessive rain and snow events to “earthquake swarms”...
A Hundred-Year-Old Anime Film Has Been Uncovered in Japan
Men's Journal via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAnime has been around for a very long time, well over 100 years, and has been a booming industry in ...
Study suggests heavy snowfall and rain may contribute to some earthquakes
Phys.org· 2 days agoThe study is the first to show that climate conditions could initiate some quakes. "We see that...
Earthquake Information
U.S. Marine Corps· 3 days agoBig quakes can be devastating and deadly but thousands of earthquakes take place around the world every single day. The vast majority of all earthquakes ...