Earthquakes in New York are even rarer than snowfall in Los Angeles. The one that struck the East Coast last Friday was one of the largest in the region in a century. And yet on the grand scale of things — no longer the Richter scale, by the way, but the Moment Magnitude Scale — it was relatively minor, with a magnitude of 4.8. The MMS is exponential: A 5.0-magnitude quake is the equivalent of 475 tons of TNT exploding, while 6.0 equals 15,000 tons, and 7.0 is 475,000 tons. While this quake and...
UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has condemned the “large-scale attack” launched in Israel by Iran.
Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq have shut their airspace in response to Iranian drone attack on Israel. Iran and Israel have also closed theirs to all but military aircraft. Iran has launched dozens of drones and missiles at Israel in a retaliatory attack. Israel has said the attack could take some hours to arrive, while Prime …
East Coast residents were jolted Friday by a 4.8-magnitude earthquake centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, with weak rumblings felt as far away as Baltimore and the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border. No life-threatening injuries or major damage have been reported. Here’s what to know about earthquakes on the East Coast. How are earthquakes measured? The Richter scale, […]
East Coast residents were jolted Friday by a 4.8-magnitude earthquake centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, with weak rumblings felt as far away as Baltimore and the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border. No life-threatening injuries or major damage have been reported.
People on the East Coast felt more aftershocks on Saturday from the historic 4.8-magnitude earthquake that rattled cities up and down the Atlantic seaboard on Friday. This is raising questions about whether New York City is ready for a major earthquake. NBC News’ George Solis has more.
Follow today’s news headlinesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMarles continues breakfast rounds to discuss defence spendingThe defence minister, Richard Marles, has been making the rounds this morning and has also spoken to ABC RN about yesterday’s defence announcement.The reason why we make the observation that an invasion of Australia is a very unlikely scenario, no matter what happens, is because any adversary that wished to do us harm could do so much...
Tehran says the confrontation between the two adversaries has concluded, writes Kim Sengupta, with Western nations urging restraint as they await Israel’s decision
Oil and stock futures traded largely flat Sunday evening as markets offered muted reactions to Iran launching hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel.
The following piece by Harold Meyerson appeared in The American Prospect. For left-of-center policy wonks, this is shaping up as a banner week. Here in Washington, the journal Democracy is holding a “Middle-Out Economics” conference, featuring a host of progressive economists, Biden administration appointees, union think-tankers, and political consultants who grapple with the conundrum of how to… Source
Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency David Petraeus talks to CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union about the significance Iran’s attack on Israel will have in the region.
Today on TAP: With big money counting on the courts, progressives are taking the fight to the court of public opinion.