Prof David Rothery, Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University, said: “The epicentre of yesterday’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Mexico was about 500 km from the…
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Mexico Earthquake: Expert reaction
How a ‘weather bomb’ shook the Earth – and why that’s not an earthquake
The Earth beneath your feet is “humming” all the time. Typically these vibrations are too faint and low-frequency for your ears to hear. But they can…
Earthquake reveals the problems with Ecuador’s famous ‘good life’ policy
Disasters have a way of revealing the gap between what a government says it wants to do and what it actually does. As Oxfam’s Duncan Green…
Ecuador and Japan earthquakes: Expert Comment
Earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador have resulted in widespread destruction and many deaths. David Rothery, Professor of Planetary Sciences at The Open University, says that Ecuador’s earthquake…
Why child trafficking spikes after natural disasters – and what we can do about it
When a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal in April 2015, it killed well over 8,000 people and turned much of the country into a disaster zone.…