A man running while his village is evacuated a day after the 7.3 magnitude aftershock earthquake in Nepal. EPA

Nepal earthquake: such huge aftershocks are rare

The magnitude 7.3 earthquake that hit Nepal this week should be classed as an aftershock rather than a second earthquake.
How many continents can you count on one hand? Chones

Continents may not have been created in the way we thought

From the 1950s until recently, we thought we had a clear idea of how continents form. Most people will have heard of plate tectonics: moving pieces on the surface of the planet that collide, pull away…

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