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A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an international team is pioneering such adaptable robots by integrating flexible electronics with magnetically controlled motion.
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Tue, 8 Apr 2025, 16:10 | BY: EARTHQUAKEMONITOR
Just 36 minutes ago, a 2.8-magnitude earthquake struck near Oswiecim, Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland, Poland. The tremor was recorded in the afternoon on Tuesday, April 8th, 2025, at 5:33 pm local time, at a shallow depth of 10. km below the surface.
The event was filed by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), the first seismological agency to report it.
Towns or cities near the epicenter where the quake might have been felt as very weak shaking include Grojec (pop. 2,900) located 4 km from the epicenter, Kety (pop. 19,200) 9 km away, Oswiecim (pop. 39,100) 9 km away, Czechowice-Dziedzice (pop. 34,700) 14 km away, Andrychow (pop. 22,000) 15 km away, and Bielsko-Biala (pop. 176,500) 18 km away. In Chrzanow (pop. 40,000, 25 km away), Tychy (pop. 130,000, 26 km away), and Krakow (pop. 755,100, 54 km away), the quake was probably not felt.
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Earthquake data:
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Date & time: Apr 8, 2025 05:33 pm (Warsaw time) local time (8 Apr 2025 15:33 GMT)
Magnitude: 2.8
Depth: 10.00 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 49.96°N / 19.19°E (Powiat oswiecimski, Lesser Poland, Poland)
Primary data source: EMSC
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PAGER – GREEN ShakeMap – IV DYFI? – IV
Time2025-04-08 15:26:34 UTC2025-04-08 15:26:34 UTC at epicenterLocation24.892°N 123.068°EDepth124.37 km (77.28 mi)
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Volcanoes Today, 8 Apr 2025: Etna volcano, Santiaguito, Semeru, Ibu, Dukono, Marapi, Reventador, Poas
Tue, 8 Apr 2025, 15:00 1744124405 | BY: VN
Intense strombolian explosions and dense ash plume from the SE Crater last night (image: INGV)
The massive eruption at Kanlaon volcano today generated the ash-laden column and pyroclastic flow (image: Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology)
Satellite image of Ibu volcano on 8 Apr 2025
Bright lava bombs from the Lewotolo’s cinder cone during the eruption on 20 March (image: PVMGB)
Etna (Sicily, Italy): The Istituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcanologia Catania reported that another phase of strombolian-type activity occurred last night.
At about 23:00 UTC, incandescent material ejected from the South-East Crater associated with ash emissions dissipated towards the southeast.
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Canlaon (Central Philippines): A strong explosion took place from the volcano’s summit crater at 05:51 local time today.
The eruption generated a grey copious ash plume that released
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