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28 Jun 2016
Joint News Release European and Asian scientists take to the sea to fathom the ‘2012 Great Earthquake’ Singaporean, French and Indonesian scientists will be heading into the Indian Ocean in...
02 Jun 2016
On 2 June 2016, a magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck the southwestern coast of Sumatra, which lies within the Mentawai seismic gap where a megathrust earthquake (M 8.5 – M 9.0) is...
25 May 2016
The Earth Observatory of Singapore received an endowed gift of S$1 million from the Stephen Riady Group of Foundations in July 2015 to boost research in earth sciences. This gift...
16 Apr 2016
On 14 April 2016, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported that a magnitude-6.2 earthquake occurred at (32.849°N 130.635°E), north of Kumamoto on the island of Kyushu in southwest Japan...
16 Apr 2016
Less than 48 hours after Japan was struck by a magnitude-6.2 earthquake, or M j 6.5 according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), a second event of M 7.0 (M...
14 Apr 2016
On 13 April 2016, a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck northwest Myanmar. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported that the quake occurred at (23.133°N 94.900°E), approximately 396 km north northwest of...
05 Apr 2016
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) at its Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) have discovered a way to forecast earthquakes based on slow fault movements caused by moving sub...
05 Apr 2016
Parkfield, population 18, sits on the San Andreas Fault in central California. Besides a café and grazing cattle, the town hosts a dense array of seismic instruments that measure tremors...
31 Mar 2016
The Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) has been inching up over the past few days. Yesterday's three-hour reading was the highest in almost five months. According to the Nationa Environment Agency...
21 Mar 2016
The Earth Observatory unveiled its new 3D Visualisation Laboratory earlier this year, with the support of the Ministry of Education and Nanyang Technological University. Among the first of its kind...
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