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Afghans stand among destruction after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. (AP Photo)

AA Edit | Quake adds to Afghan woes

Afghan continues to be disfigured by natural calamities as it sits in tectonically active terrain over a vast number of...

23 Jun 2022 11:25 PM IST

Rescuers search for victims and survivors amidst the rubble of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the countrys southeast on February 7, 2023. (Adem ALTAN / AFP)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Turkish lesson: Ignoring building codes...

If buildings in an earthquake-prone area are constructed to withstand the shaking, then the people inside are much safer

16 Feb 2023 12:12 AM IST

Groundbreaking: Earth scientist Kusala Rajendran with her team in Nepal.

Trail blazer: Chasing quakes to dissect their phenomena

After completing her Master's, she joined the Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS) in Trivandrum as a junior...

26 Aug 2018 6:39 AM IST

Mohan Das Pai have cautioned that dramatic shift in technology and artificial intelligence has created disruption in industries and posed a threat to humankind. (Representational image/ Pixabay image)

Forecasting earthquake aftershock areas with AI-assisted science

A neural net was applied to analyse the relationships between static stress changes caused by the mainshocks and...

1 Sept 2018 1:29 PM IST

Heavy machinery is deployed to move debris during the search for victims at the site of a landslide in Maoxian County in southwestern Chinas Sichuan Province. (Photo: AP)

China landslide rescuers ordered to evacuate

The order was issued Monday after radar detected shifts in the ground where the mountains collapsed early Saturday, said...

26 Jun 2017 1:54 PM IST