Explains the concepts of latitude and longitude, which are used to locate places on Earth. It describes how latitude is ...

The Greenwich Meridian at 0 degrees longitude divides the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres. Chosen in the 19th century, it set the standard for global time measurement and navigation ...

The National Seismic Monitoring Network stations affiliated with the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics ...

A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck North Sumatra, Indonesia, on the morning of March 18. According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), the quake had a focal depth of 86 kilometers.

Lines of longitude run from the top of the Earth ... The other lines show how many degrees east or west of this you are. If I want to see where a place is in the world, I just need to look at ...

China insists on 124 degrees east longitude as the baseline for its territorial waters in the Yellow Sea, known in South Korea as the West Sea, based on a 1962 border treaty. This is well within ...

For the first time in a while, the Upper West Region did not hold a regional programme to observe this year’s Independence ...

historically associated with the “100th meridian” (the line of 100°W longitude), which approximates the location of the wet-dry (east-west) transition across the center of the state ...

Kolkata earthquake updates: An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hit the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday morning, with tremors felt in Kolkata and several parts of West Bengal ... 19.52 N and longitude ...

March's full moon, known as the Worm Moon, will bring a stunning total lunar eclipse, turning the Moon a deep reddish hue in ...

about 286 km east of Puri. Originating at a depth of 91 km (latitude 19.52°N, longitude 88.55°E), the tremors were felt in Bhubaneswar, Chandipur, Cuttack, and Paradip. The shaking, which lasted ...