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More than 1,000 small earthquakes hit Portuguese volcanic island

Azores Sao Jorge island seismic activity

Lisbon, Portugal Reuters Around 1,100 small earthquakes have rattled one of Portugal’s mid-Atlantic volcanic islands in less than 48 hours, prompting authorities to activate an emergency plan as experts assess what they have described as a “seismic crisis”. Rui Marques, head of the Azores archipelago’s seismo-volcanic surveillance centre CIVISA, told Reuters on Monday the earthquakes, […]

To honour slave trade victims, a memorial in the depths of the Atlantic

Maafa New York Trans Atlantic slave trade commemoration

New York, US Thomson Reuters Foundation Tributes to victims of the trans-Atlantic slave trade can be found in museums and through statues, but a new proposal is calling for a memorial that can neither be visited nor even seen. A virtual memorial of ribbons on maps of the Atlantic deep seabed could honour the estimated […]