A 5.3-magnitude earthquake hits Eastern Russia.
Image Credit: Earthstar Geographics An hour ago, the German Research Centre for Geosciences reported a 5.3-magnitude earthquake 86 km north of Nogliki, Noglikskii, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia at a shallow depth […]
Strong quake hits Qinghai, China.
Image Credit: VolcanoDiscovery A strong magnitude 6.5-earthquake just struck 136km north of Xining, Qinghai, China at a shallow depth of 10km. The exact magnitude, epicenter, and depth of the quake […]
Explosion destroys part of a residential building in Russia.
Image Credit: Twitter On Monday, local authorities reported that an explosion occurred in a 5-storey residential building. The explosion occured in Naberezhnye Chelny city, 930km east of Moscow. Several people […]
Moldova declares state of emergency.
Image Credit: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg The Moldovan government declares a state of emergency for 30 days after Russian company Gazprom threatened that it will cut off gas supply to the country […]
Voting in Uzbek presidential election begins.
Image Credit: Vyacheslav Oseledko/ AFP Voting for a new presidential 5 -year term will begin on Sunday. Many expect the current President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to win against his four rivals. […]
Huge explosion in Kazakhstan.
Image Credit: Obtained from a video uploaded on Twitter. On Thursday evening, a fire in an ammunition depot in the southern region of Jambyl in Kazakhstan caused a series of […]
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck Sakhlin Oblast, Russia.
Image Credit: VolcanoDiscovery Four hours ago the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported a 6.0-magnitude earthquake in the North Pacific Ocean, 229 km south of Severo-Kuril’sk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia […]
Russia military transport plane crashes near Moscow.
Image Credit: Defenceblog On Tuesday, during a training flight at the Kubinka air base to test the new Russian military transport plane, the IL-112V light transport aircraft, the plane caught […]
World’s second largest port, Ningbo Zhoushan in China, temporarily shut down.
Image Credit: Cruisemapper The World’s second largest port, Ningbo Zhoushan in China has been closed after one of the workers tested positive for COVID-19. The port worker is believed to […]
