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Bhutan: Houses built with stone slabs more susceptible to earthquakes
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
According to The Bhutan Live, the ongoing national earthquake safety assessment by the Department of Human Settlement checks for a house's resistance to earthquakes with magnitudes ranging between 6.1 to 6.9.
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Bhutanese houses constructed with stone slabs more susceptible to earthqua
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
According to the study, the stone-masonry buildings will not be safe if the country experiences an earthquake with a magnitude between 6.1 and 6.9.
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6 people dead, 17 missing in Nepal floods
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], August 19 (ANI): At least six people are dead and 17 have gone missing as flash flood sweeps through human settlement in Accham district of Far-West Nepal on Tuesday night.
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Protest in Kerala's Idukki demanding protection of residents, properties f
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Idukki (Kerala) [India], June 8 (ANI): Devikulam MLA S Rajendran from CPM along with supporters staged a protest by blocking the Munnar-Udumalpet interstate highway here on Monday, demanding that action to be taken to prevent wild elephants entering into human settlements and destroying prop
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Locals protest against Nepal govt's decision to quarantine China evacuees
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Bhaktapur [Nepal], Feb 12 (ANI): Ever since the Nepal government announced its plan to quarantine evacuees from coronavirus-hit Wuhan in Bhaktapur province, locals here are demonstrating against the same as the proposed isolation centre is extremely close to human settlements.
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Humans settled in Amazonia much older than previously thought: Study
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA] Apr 28 (ANI): The researchers have suggested that humans settled in southwestern Amazonia are much older than previously thought.
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Venkaiah Naidu to chair governing council meeting in Nairobi from today
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): India has been unanimously elected as the President of the UN-Habitat, an organ of the United Nations' Organisation (UNO) that promotes socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements across the world, after 10 years. UN-Habitat reports to the
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Forest fire turns sleepless nights for human settlement in Sikkim
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Reythang (Sikkim) [India], Mar.8 (ANI): Human settlement around forested areas are facing sleepless nights as a forest fire today engulfed the Rabdentse Forest of Sikkim's Geyzing town.
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