EARTHQUAKES

 

These days we hear much about earthquakes in relation to the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on the morning of Monday 6th February. This earthquake was destructive; razing cities to the ground and killing more than 40 thousand people. In addition to this, it has also inflicted immeasurable damage on the cultural lands of Syria and Turkey by destroying the oldest city in the world: Aleppo.  

JAKARTA IS SINKING

 

With more than 10 million inhabitants the Indonesian megacity is facing the effects of land subsidence and sea level rise . A lethal combo that along with the Indonesian climate facilitates floods .

"The potential for Jakarta to be submerged isn't a laughing matter," says Heri Andreas, who has studied Jakarta's land subsidence for the past 20 years at the Bandung Institute of Technology.