Los Angeles: It's a spectacle that won't repeat for another century - the sight of Venus slowly inching across the face of the sun. So unless scientists discover the fountain of youth, none of us alive today will likely ever witness this celestial phenomenon again, dubbed a "transit of Venus." It's so unique that museums and schools around the globe are hosting Venus viewing festivities - all for a chance...
03:52 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: Power metal band Iced Earth has announced that it is cancelling the band's performance at the Bangalore Open Air Festival due to visa related issues. The band was scheduled to perform in Bangalore on June 16, 2012. However, the band will continue its tour to generate enthusiasm about its new release 'Dystopia'. The bad has released a statement that reads: "Dear fans, friends and fellow metalheads in India....
07:11 PM, May 30, 2012
San Felice sul Panaro: Workers at the small machinery company had just returned for their first shift following Italy's powerful and deadly quake earlier this month when another one struck on Tuesday, collapsing the roof. At least three employees at the factory - two immigrants and an Italian engineer checking the building's stability - were among those killed in the second deadly quake in nine days to strike a region...
02:26 AM, May 30, 2012
Milan: A magnitude 5.8 earthquake shook northern Italy on Tuesday, killing at least three people according to Italian news reports. The United States Geological Survey said the quake, which struck at 9:00 am local time (0700 GMT), was centered 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of Bologna. It hit the same region where a stronger temblor measuring 6.0 earlier this month killed seven people, most when factories working overnight collapsed. The...
01:30 PM, May 29, 2012
Rome: One of the strongest earthquakes to shake northern Italy rattled the region around Bologna early Sunday, a magnitude-6.0 temblor that killed at least three people, toppled some buildings and sent residents running into the streets, emergency services and news reports said. The quake struck at 4:04 am on Sunday between Modena and Mantova, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) north-northwest of Bologna at a relatively shallow depth of 5 kilometers...
01:58 PM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: Sky gazers in parts of the world are up for a celestial treat on May 21 when an annular solar eclipse takes place, a rare event in which the sun will appear as a thin ring behind the moon. However, in India it will only be visible in the northeastern states. An annual solar eclipse occurs when the Sun, the Moon and the Earth are exactly in line,...
10:34 AM, May 20, 2012
Bologna: A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck near Bologna, Italy, on Sunday, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake, which initially registered at magnitude 6.3, was centered 22 miles (35 km) north-northwest of Bologna in northern Italy at a relatively shallow depth of 6.3 miles (10 km), the USGS said. The last major earthquake to hit Italy was a 6.3 magnitude quake in the central Italian city of L'Aquila in 2009,...
08:33 AM, May 20, 2012
Ahmedabad: Mild tremors measuring 3.2 on the Richter scale were felt this morning in Kutch district, officials said in Ahmedabad. The earthquake had its epicentre at 34 km northwest of Khavada village in Kutch, officials at the Institute of Seismological Research (ISR) said. Aftershocks measuring 2.3 on the Richter scale were felt in the afternoon around 3 pm, they said, adding that the aftershocks had the epicentre at 30 km...
06:45 PM, May 13, 2012
London: In a space mission straight from the movie "Armageddon", astronauts are being trained to land on an asteroid, explore it for minerals and even destroy the object if it threatens the Earth. NASA wants humans to make contact with an asteroid up to three million miles away by the end of the next decade, something far beyond the scope of Earth-Moon space flight in 1969. Travelling at around 80,000...
04:58 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Mild tremors measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale were on Friday felt in north eastern states of Assam and Meghalaya, and West Bengal. The tremors were primarily felt in Guwahati, Shillong and Kolkata. The tremors were also felt in Malda, Baharampur and Jiaganj in West Bengal. According to R S Dattatreya of MET Department, the epicentre of the earthquake was in Tezpur in Assam. The quake was felt...
06:30 PM, May 11, 2012
Mexico City: A moderate earthquake in the western Mexican state of Michoacan swayed buildings in Mexico City on Tuesday. Mexico City's mayor says there no reports of damage in the capital. The US Geological Survey says the 5.7 earthquake was centred 137 kilometres from Michoacan's capital, Morelia. An earlier 5.0 quake struck 184 kilometres off the coast of Cabo San Lucas in the state of Baja California Sur. Neither state...
04:12 AM, May 02, 2012
Mexico City: A moderate earthquake off the coast of Baja California swayed buildings in Mexico City on Tuesday. Mexico City's mayor says there were no immediate reports of damage in the capital. The US Geological Survey says the magnitude 5.0 quake was centred about 184 kilometres off the coast of Cabo San Lucas and about 11 kilometres deep. Many businesses were closed for a holiday in Mexico City, which has...
10:49 PM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Railways has ignored safety concerns in another project. The 125 km-long Rishikesh-Karnprayag rail link, inaugurated in November, 2011, has been red flagged by a railways chief engineer, Alok Verma, who has said that it was a disaster in waiting. He said that an all important geological study has not been done in an area that is in seismic zone 4 and is landslide prone. In a...
06:42 PM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: A moderate earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale jolted the Nicobar islands Wednesday afternoon, an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said in New Delhi. The temblor struck at 1.12 pm on Wednesday, an IMD official from the seismology department said. "The earthquake was of moderate intensity measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale. It occurred in the Nicobar islands region," the official added. ...
02:53 PM, Apr 25, 2012
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