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News · Asia
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Baqen county, Nagqu, has killed at least 16 people and injured dozens. The largest-earthquakes map sets the region in the seismic context of the Himalayas, although its magnitude-8 threshold leaves this event out.
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The European Commission presented its Arctic strategy on 20 October, including a fibre-optic cable between Greenland and the EU. The submarine-cable map shows today's routes and the gap Brussels wants to fill.
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Episode 55 of lava fountaining in Halemaʻumaʻu crater lasted less than six hours and ended on 17 October. The USGS expects the next episode between 27 October and 6 November. The active-volcanoes map places the crater in the Pacific.
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Over the weekend of 17-18 October, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in France. Italy and Belgium joined with student protests. The income-inequality map helps contextualise the unrest, but it also shows its limits.
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