US: M7.3 Earthquake Hits Alaska, Residents Rush to High Ground After Tsunami Warning

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck south of Sand Point, Alaska, on Wednesday, July 16, at 12:37 p.m. Communities along 700 miles of Alaska's southern coast ordered residents to higher ground due to a tsunami warning. The Alaska Earthquake Center reported 40 aftershocks within the first three hours.

Preschool Education in China

Preschool Education in China

YANTAI, CHINA - MAY 29, 2024 - Children play with sand at the Second Experimental Kindergarten in Yantai High-tech Zone, East China's Shandong province, May 29, 2024. According to the Report on Population Change and the Development Strategy of Preschool Education (2024), from 2021 to 2023, preschool education will usher in an inflection point in the balance of total supply and demand. According to the current trend of a sharp decline in China's birth population, and the low fertility rate will remain in the future, the total size of children in kindergartens will fall off a cliff after 2023. By 2025, even with a 95% penetration rate estimated, the number of people in the park will likely drop to about 30 million; Attendance will also drop to around 9.5 to 10 million.

CHINA-GANSU-GANNAN-MAQU WETLANDS-CONSERVATION-RESTORATION (CN)

CHINA-GANSU-GANNAN-MAQU WETLANDS-CONSERVATION-RESTORATION (CN)

(230915) -- GANNAN, Sept. 15, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This combo photo shows staff members making sand barriers on a degraded grassland (above, photo taken by Xinhua photographer Han Chuanhao in 2002) and villagers sowing grass seeds on a grassland management point (below, photo taken by Xinhua photographer Zhang Keren on July 6, 2023) along the Yellow River in Maqu County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Gansu Province. Located on the northeast rim of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Maqu County boasts an extensive presence of grasslands and wetlands. Maqu, meaning "the Yellow River" in the Tibetan language, is the only county named after "Yellow River" in China. Covering an area of 5.62 million mu (about 374,667 hectares), the Maqu wetlands serve as an important water reserve and eco-zone in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. However, the Maqu wetlands once suffered from shrinking lake areas, grass degradation, and decreasing water conservation capacity. In order to protect the Maqu wetla

Zabriskie Point (1970)

Zabriskie Point (1970)

Couples Make Out On The Sand Film: Zabriskie Point (USA 1970) Director: Michelangelo Antonioni 09 February 1970 Date: 09 February 1970

Maikono-hama coast

Maikono-hama coast

Maikonohama Beach stretches about 1.7 km along the Seto Inland Sea. Located in the western part of present-day Tarumi Ward, it was famous from ancient times as a scenic point with white sand and pine trees. Utagawa Hiroshige made many ukiyoe prints depicting the scenery here. This photograph captures the area around the Old Saigoku Highway (present-day National Route #2), facing west. Taken from the mid- to late-Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number59‐69‐0]