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BBC News
19 hours ago
- BBC News
Charnwood Forest: Bid to win Unesco status for historic landscape
A landscape in Leicestershire could be set for the world stage as a bid is made to secure a prestigious international application to get Unesco Global Geopark status for Charnwood Forest is being led by The National area in the north of the county is home to attractions including Bradgate Park and Beacon Hill, and is famous for its landscapes and ancient fossil behind the bid said an application would be submitted to Unesco later this year with international evaluators visiting the site in 2026. If the application is successful, the designation would be awarded in the spring of 2027. Geoparks are areas of outstanding geology that are used by local communities to promote sustainable economic development, conservation, and education, organisers are currently 229 Unesco Global Geoparks in 50 Forest Geopark has been developed over the past four years as part of a National Lottery Heritage Fund-supported scheme, hosted by the National site has a geological story that dates back nearly 600 million years, and is home to some of the oldest animal fossils ever include a 560 million-year-old fossil representing the earliest known animal predator. Since 2020, a partnership comprising several organisations including Bradgate Park Trust, Leicestershire County Council, the Environment Agency and the British Geological Survey, has been working to try to raise the profile of Charnwood Jack Matthews, a geo-heritage officer who is part of the team behind the application, said: "Since the discovery of our famous fossil Charnia by two schoolchildren in the 1950s, Charnwood Forest has been one of our planet's most important places to visit and understand how animals first evolved."The Geopark is promoting this fascinating story through new interpretation at sites across Charnwood Forest, welcoming local people and visitors to learn more about their oldest animal ancestors and support local businesses while they're here."From rocks and fossils to our unique human history, and biodiversity, Charnwood Forest has many layers of heritage, and with Unesco Global Geopark status we can share these with even more people."
Forbes
a day ago
- Science
- Forbes
First-Ever Fault Rupture Captured On Video During Myanmar Earthquake
Video showing shaking of the surface and at 0:16 a sudden offset as part of the ground moves (for ... More the observer) from the left to the right. A video uploaded just a few days after a powerful earthquake hit Myanmar on March 28, 2025, quickly captured attention of the geological community, as it shows the exact moment the ground ruptures along a fault. The video comes from a CCTV security camera recording along the trace of Myanmar's Sagaing Fault, which ruptured in a magnitude 7.7 earthquake. The camera was placed about 20 meters to the east of the fault and was 120 kilometers away from the earthquake's center. When geophysicist Jesse Kearse and his colleague Yoshihiro Kaneko at Kyoto University analyzed the video more carefully, they noted that the video not only shows a fault in motion as never seen before — shaking followed by a visible slide of the ground — but reveled the dynamics of fault slip. 'I saw this on YouTube an hour or two after it was uploaded, and it sent chills down my spine straight away,' Kearse recalls. 'It shows something that I think every earthquake scientist has been desperate to see, and it was just right there, so very exciting.' Geological clues, like curved scrape marks on fault planes, already suggested that blocks of rock moving past each other during faulting rotate slightly , but until now there has been no visual proof for this geomechanical behavior. 'Instead of things moving straight across the video screen, they moved along a curved path that has a convexity downwards,' Kearse explains. The researchers decided to track the movement of objects in the video by pixel cross correlation, frame by frame. The analysis helped them measure the rate and direction of fault motion during the earthquake. They conclude that the fault slipped 2.5 meters for roughly 1.3 seconds, at a peak velocity of about 3.2 meters per second. This shows that the earthquake was pulse-like, which is a major discovery and confirms previous inferences made from seismic waveforms of other earthquakes. In addition, even if most of the fault motion is vertical (a classic strike-slip fault), the slip curves at first, then remains linear as the slip slows down. The pattern fits with what earthquake scientists had previously proposed, as the ground breaks first at the weakest point (in this case the surface) and then the rupturing fault follows. The video confirmation can help researchers create better dynamic models of how faults rupture and how the energy of an earthquake spreads from its point of origin, Kearse and Kaneko conclude. The full study, "Curved Fault Slip Captured by CCTV Video During the 2025 Mw 7.7 Myanmar Earthquake," was published in the journal The Seismic Record and can be found online here. Additional material and interviews provided by the Seismological Society of America.
Geek Dad
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Dad
Stack Overflow: 5 Books for July
Here are some lovely releases to pique your interest. Let's start with nonfiction books: Diggers, Dozers, and Dumpers by Ole Könnecke (Author), Melody Shaw (Translator) I thought I knew the name and how most of the machines around me worked, but I was very much mistaken! Turns out that there are not only diggers and excavators around us, but lots of heavy construction vehicles used for a wide array of purposes, such as wheel loaders, telescopic cranes, and tree harvesters! All this heavy machinery is operated by friendly-looking animals, making it a unique combination. Diggers, Dozers, and Dumpers is on sale since May 06, 2025. Publisher: Gecko Press Pages: 32/ Hardback EAN/UPC: 9798765667552 Up next, some talking rocks and minerals: Talking Rocks and Minerals: Fact-Packed Guide to Geology Paige Towler (Author), Matthew Carlson (Illustrated by) If you put a cute kawaii face on a Pebble and a microphone, you can send him reporting! Pebble the Rock Reporter interviews rocks and minerals on the fundamentals of geology. Some rocks come from deep into the Earth's crust, like volcanic rocks, some are made with organic materials (limestone), and some come from different amalgamations. Some rocks have strange properties, and others are beautiful to look at, and each has a story to tell. This is a fun take on how different rocks and gemstones form from minerals, filled with facts and puns, and, although not as complete as Animated Science: Rocks & Minerals, it is a good place to start! Talking Rocks and Minerals: Fact-Packed Guide to Geology is on sale since July 1st, 2025. Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap Pages: 32 ISBN: 9780593890950 Up next, a dragon: Diego Fuego the Firefighting Dragon by Allison Rozo (Author), Rafael Rozo (Author), Vanessa Morales (Illustrated by) Diego Fuego was born amidst a loving family of fire-breathing dragons in Tierra del Fuego (Land of Fire) in South America's Patagonia. His family loves him very much and wants him to join the fun of breathing fire, but Diego can't! He has allergies and sneezes, and finally, the cold becomes ice flurries, not fire at all. However, even a dragon that cannot spout fire has its uses when it fights dangerous fires that need to be put out! Finding what you are good at, despite family tradition, is always a good message. Diego Fuego the Firefighting Dragon is on sale since July 22, 2025. Published by Penguin Workshop Hardback | Pages: 32 ISBN: 9780593750322 Now, let's check out a spooky book for the ones that miss Halloween in July: We Are Already Haunting Here! Gideon Sterer (Author), Charlie Mylie (Illustrated by) A little ghost has recently arrived in a haunted city in a haunted world, and he is looking for a spot where he to haunt and call his own. Of course, this is never easy. Every place he tries is already haunted by someone else. After several trials, he does find it! It may be small and dusty and creaky, but it is his to haunt. A perfect place! But then, he hears a knock at the door. It's another little ghost, looking for a place. Will he scare the other ghost away or make room for a new friend? I felt this was a migrant story, but that could mean only that different people will find different meanings in a good book. We Are Already Haunting Here! is on sale since July 15, 2025. Published by Union Square Kids Hardback | Pages: 40 ISBN: 9781454960478 Finally, a middle-grade novel about hacking street cameras: Snoop by Gordon Korman (Author) The premise for this novel is pretty interesting. A kid with divorced parents breaks both legs at a ski resort and is now stuck at home, alone with his smartphone and computer. Carter quickly realizes that being alone is pretty boring and that things are carrying on at school without him, that is until he finds out the live feed the police camas around town. Now he is obsessed, checking out his classmates and discovering strange things that no one else is noticing. Now the scary part is that some people find out they are being watched, and now know Carter's address. What will happen to this naïve boy stuck on a wheelchair? Snoop is on sale since July 1st, 2025. Published by Scholastic Press Hardback | Pages: 208 ISBN: 9781546126089 Liked it? Take a second to support GeekDad and GeekMom on Patreon!
Al Arabiya
2 days ago
- Climate
- Al Arabiya
Earthquake of 5-magnitude strikes southern Iran
A 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck in southern Iran on Monday morning, according to the US Geological Survey. The earthquake had a depth of 10 kilometers and was 28.8 kilometers west south west of Mohr.
Bloomberg
2 days ago
- Climate
- Bloomberg
Magnitude 5.0 Earthquake Strikes Southern Iran, USGS Says
A 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck in southern Iran on Monday morning, according to the US Geological Survey. The earthquake had a depth of 10 kilometers and was 28.8 kilometers west south west of Mohr.
