Today, at hours 6:07, an earthquake of magnitude 4.7 hit the Southern Tyrrhenian Seaoff Egadi islands, in Sicily. The epicenter was located in the open sea, at approximately 82 km off the coast of Trapani. The shock was distinctly felt in various municipalities in the province of Trapani and of Palermo But, fortunately, has not caused particular inconvenience to the ...
Graphic representation generated with IA. The reasons why trees of oleander They are manifold. The main ones have to do with the road safety: being poisonous, the oleanders they keep animals at a distancewho instinctively do not approach and, therefore, do not cross the roadway. In addition, oleanders can act as natural barrier in the event of an accident. Other ...
View on Wadi al Hitan. In the foreground the fossilized spine of a basilosauride. Credit: Guy DeBonnet, CC By -SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Few know that in Egyptamong the dunes of the desertthere is one of the sites paleontological most important in the world, or “Wadi al Hitan“(In Arabic the”Valle delle Balene“), where the fossilized bones of ancient marine ...
Retail Renndering Shura Island. Source: Shura Island Official Website Located off the coast of theSaudi Arabiathe island of Shura is the nerve center of “The Red Sea Project”, a tourist initiative that is part of the largest Vision 2030. The island, the centerpiece of an archipelago of 92 Islands in the Red Sea, it was nicknamed “Coral Bloom“(Coral flower) in ...
You are looking at Science dialogues Don’t miss other content of Geopop When we think about working in contact with the animal worldprobably the first thing that comes to mind is to study veterinary, or rather veterinary medicine. Not everyone instead knows the world of ethologythat is, that science that studies the animal behaviorof the relationship between different individuals of ...
A quipup kept at the Cleveland Museum in the United States. Credit: Clevelandart.org In the For pre -Columbian There was a very effective way to take into account important numerical information such as accounting, the passage of time, taxes and censuses: i Quiup(or KIPU), term that in the native language of the Peruvian plateaus, the quechualiterally means “node“. The Inca ...
The confirmation of the First case of infestation on man of larva eaten-corne (New World Screwwworm – NWS), deriving from a trip to South America, where this insect is weed. The details of how the patient has been infected and even where: the Center for the control and prevention of US diseases (CDC) and the associations of breeders report different ...
Typhoon Kajiki who hit Vietnam. Credit: Gaurav Shukla, via X. The Typhoon Kajiki He is breaking down on Vietnam, causing intense rains, flooding and winds that have passed the 133 km/hequivalent to a category 2 Atlantic hurricane on the Saffir-Speson scale. The typhoon touched the land around 13:00 today (local time, 08:00 in Italy) and the eye of the typhoon ...
The bridge collapsed in China, in the province of Qinghai. Credit: NFSC Red Leaf Canada, via X. In China it is partially collapsed a railway bridge under construction on the yellow river: the accident occurred around 03:00 in the morning (local time, 9 pm in Italy on August 22) and caused the death of 12 workerswhile 4 are still missing. ...
Intervention of the firefighters following the violent storm on the Romagna coast. Credit: Fire Brigade A violent storm He hit the Romagna coast last night, particularly hitting the area of Rimini, Cervia, Milano Marittima and Ravenna. In Rimini the rainfall has reached a peak of 74.4 millimeters of rain Between 5 and 6 and in the morning, with 30-50 millimeters ...