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Authorities have evacuated dozens of people from remote islands in southern Japan that have been shaken by over 1,700 tremors in recent weeks.

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has issued a safety advisory after a magnitude 4.4 earthquake jolted Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) early Thursday morning.

The estimated magnitude of the tremors was around 4.4 on the Richter scale in Haryana's Jhajjar district. According to the National Institute of Seismology, its depth was 10 km.

The national media is waking up to Deja Foxx, the 25-year-old Arizona candidate for Congress who is electrifying social media.

In California, where the next “Big One” is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake resonate even 100 years later, experts say.

Will the Port of Longview and city of Vancouver adopt stricter bidder criteria for future public projects? The city of Ridgefield already has.

The City of Indianapolis’s Vision Zero Task Force unveiled a lofty new strategy that aims to eliminate traffic fatalities and injuries by 2035.