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Philippines
Twin Quakes Hit Mindanao
On Friday, October 10, 2025, two powerful offshore earthquakes struck the southern Philippines near Davao Oriental, with magnitudes of 7.4 and 6.8, killing at least seven people, injuring hundreds, and damaging homes, hospitals, roads, and schools. The first quake, centered off the town of Manay in Mindanao, triggered tsunami warnings across the Philippines, Indonesia, and Palau. The second tremor, known as a “doublet quake,” struck hours later on the same fault line, the Philippine Trench. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered search and rescue operations. The earthquakes struck less than two weeks after another deadly 6.9-magnitude quake in Cebu killed over 70 people, highlighting the country’s vulnerability to natural disasters due to its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire, where tectonic activity frequently causes earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions.
This map depicts the impact area of a magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck offshore in the southern Philippines on October 10, 2025. Click on the map to learn more.
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Afghanistan
U.S. Return to Bagram Opposition
Nations of Central and South Asia have voiced their opposition to the stated desire of President Donald Trump for the U.S. military to reclaim control over Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Earlier this week, officials from China, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan met with representatives from Afghanistan’s Taliban government to issue a statement criticizing proposals of foreign countries deploying “military infrastructure” in Afghanistan and neighboring states, without specifically naming the United States. Trump has long criticized how the United States withdrew from Afghanistan and left Bagram’s facilities and resources to the Taliban. The location of Bagram base offers the strategic ability to observe Central and South Asian nations.
This map from Indian media depicts the location of Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, a facility that had been abandoned by the U.S. military in 2021 but which the U.S. President has expressed a desire to control again. Click on the map to learn more.
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World
Satellites Map Mega-Waves
Satellites have confirmed that winter storms are capable of generating open-ocean waves as much as 65 feet (20 m) high, with a standout event during Storm Eddie on December 21, 2024, recorded by the French-US Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite. Those swells carried storm energy roughly 15,000 miles (24,000 km) across the Pacific, through the Drake Passage, and into the Atlantic by early January 2025. The findings show that long period swells act like messengers that can pound distant coastlines even when the storm never comes ashore.
This map depicts location and size of the waves detected by SWOT. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: Formed as a result of crustal movements that occurred about 2.5 million years ago, the Sea of Marmara is completely bordered by which country?
A: Türkiye (Turkey)
A northeastern extension of the Mediterranean Sea, the Sea of Marmara separates Asian Türkiye from European Türkiye. It is 175 miles (280 km) long and nearly 50 miles (80 km) at its widest. It is connected through the Bosporus on the northeast with the Black Sea and through the Dardanelles on the southwest with the Aegean Sea. It is 175 miles (280 km) long from northeast to southwest and nearly 50 miles (80 km) wide at its greatest width. The North Anatolian Fault, which has caused many major earthquakes in recent years such as the 1999 İzmit earthquake, runs under the sea.
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Q: It took a week for explorers to reach the bottom of the world’s largest cave–which country is it in?
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