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The signalling fault caused delays and disruptions on Cambridge trains
In the early morning of 22 May 2021, a magnitude 7.4 quake rattled China's remote Maduo County on the Tibetan Plateau. It was the most recent in a series of nine earthquakes with a magnitude of 7 or greater since 1997, and its surface rupture was twice as long as the global average for similarly sized quakes. The tremor occurred on the eastern part of the relatively immature left-lateral Jiangcuo fault system, which slips slowly, about 1 millimeter per year, and was unmapped before the quake.
With Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson struggling to hold onto the gavel in the face of eternal rebellion from some of his party’s most intransigent far-right members, Politico thought it would be a good idea to call up former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to ask him about the situation. And I […]
Liu Ranyang/China News Service via GettyTesla is recalling thousands of its Cybertrucks over a problem with the accelerator pedal, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced Friday.The auto safety regulator said the pedals in certain Cybertruck vehicles have a pad that “may dislodge and become trapped by the interior trim,” in turn causing the truck to “accelerate unintentionally, increasing the risk of a crash.” A total of 3,878 Cybertrucks are being recalled to fix the...
And actually, we’d be better off with a Democrat-controlled Congress (and an actual GOP opposition) than whatever this is.
Charity says households in England have approached councils 84650 times for
Parkfield lies right on the San Andreas fault (Pictiure: Datawrapper) The tiny town of Parkfield in California has something unusual about it. Scientists are always eagerly studying it, because it is right on top of the San Andreas fault, and has been called the ‘earthquake capital of the world’. The famous faultline running from north to south of the Golden State will soon be due for a tremor, and all eyes are on the town as the potential epicentre. Measurements there are behaving...
The forward, who will face Manchester City in the FA Cup on Saturday, has managed a debut season goal tally up there with the club’s big names
Toyota Motor has recalled more than 135,000 Prius hybrid cars in Japan due to a problem with rear door handles. It was not immediately clear if Prius cars sold outside Japan were also being recalled. A Toyota spokesperson said that an assembly line which had been suspended due to quality checks for Prius cars will resume production of Corolla compact cars on Thursday.
Tyranny By The Numbers: The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. This is what comes of those $1.2 trillion spending bills: someone’s got to foot the bill for the government’s fiscal insanity, and that “someone” is the U.S. taxpayer. The government’s schemes to swindle, cheat, scam,...
There was tension in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital on Sunday, as residents of Bini village in the Maru Local Government Area blocked the state Government House. The villagers said they were protesting against the withdrawal of security personnel from their village amid incessant attacks by bandits. The villagers, who were in large numbers, blocked Read More