Tag: aftershocks

War’s Aftershocks Force Israelis to Face Delayed Inflation Spike

(Bloomberg) — The Israeli town of Ofakim is just a short distance from Gaza, where war has raged for eight months. But it’s taken until now for the inflationary fallout of the conflict to hit home. Most Read from Bloomberg As tens of thousands fled the areas near Israel’s southern and northern borders after Hamas’s […]

Aftershocks from Northeast earthquake could last a week, seismologists say

NEW YORK — Aftershocks in the New York City area could continue for a week after one of the East Coast’s strongest earthquakes in 100 years. The 4.8 magnitude earthquake centered in Readington Township, New Jersey rattled homes and buildings across the Northeast at 10:23 a.m. Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake […]

Earthquake aftershocks halt demolition of leaning building in Taiwan

The demolition of a building that is leaning precariously after an earthquake in Taiwan has been halted because of aftershocks that made it lean even more, media reports said. The red building, about 10 storeys tall and inclined over a street in the city of Hualien, has become a lasting image from the magnitude 7.4 […]