Nonstop Quakes Leave a Tourist Island Empty and Its Residents on Edge
Thousands of tremors, sometimes every few minutes, have shaken Santorini, Greece. More than 13,000 of its 15,500 inhabitants have left.
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Can Quake-Prone Japan Ever Embrace Nuclear Energy Again?
The government, its makeup in flux after the ruling party lost seats this week, will soon need to make decisions that will shape Japan’s future nuclear policy.
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Earthquake in Northeast Shakes X, Formerly Twitter, Awake
For a brief, quaky moment, the social media platform was atwitter.
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Town in Iceland Evacuated Amid Fears of Volcanic Eruption
Officials said that “the likelihood of a volcanic eruption” in the near future was “considerable” in Grindavik, home to about 4,000 people.