Category: Geography Current Affairs

Mount Rainier: An earthquake swarm began at Mount Rainier recently, with the region hit by more than 300 small quakes, the most significant seismicity at the volcano since 2009, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported. It is the highest mountain (4,392 metres) in the state of Washington, United States. Covering 260 sq.km, Rainier is surrounded […]

Bhadrakali Lake: Activists urge the Telangana government to rethink island development in Bhadrakali Lake amid lake shrinkage concerns.It is an artificial lake located in Warangal, Telangana.It covers an area of approximately 32 acres. The lake stretches to 2 km in distance.It is believed to have been built during the 12th century by the Ganapati Deva […]

Revival of Lotus in Wular Lake: After three decades of ecological dormancy caused by the 1992 flood, lotus flowers have once again begun blooming in Kashmir’s Wular Lake due to focused conservation efforts led by Wular Conservation and Management Authority (WUCMA). Lotus stems (locally called Nadru) couldn’t grow since 1992 as seeds were buried under […]

Gambhira-Mujpur bridge on the Mahi River collapsed in Padra taluka of Vadodara, Gujarat: Mahi River is one of the major west-flowing interstate rivers of India. It flows through the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Gujarat. The river is popularly described as “Mahisagar” due to its vastness. It originates in the northern slope of the […]

Tokara Islands: More than 1,000 earthquakes have rattled the Tokara Islands in southern Japan over the past two weeks. The Tokara Islands are a small archipelago in Japan, south of Kyushu and north of the Amami Islands. They are also sometimes known as the Toshima Islands, and the name is preserved in the name of […]

Very Massive Stars: A new study suggests that ‘Very massive stars’ or ‘very luminous stars’ may be emitting a significantly higher amount of material during their lifespan. These are those stars that have over 100 times the mass of the Sun. They have a much higher mass than the Sun, they use their nuclear fuel […]

Polar Anticyclone: Chile and Argentina ranked among the coldest places on Earth, outside the polar regions as polar anticyclone grips region. Polar Anticyclone is a wind system associated with a region in which high atmospheric pressure develops over or in the vicinity of the poles. The polar anticyclone is strongest in the cold season of […]

Roll Cloud: A rare roll cloud appeared over Portugal’s coast recently, surprising beachgoers as strong winds hit during an ongoing extreme heatwave. A roll cloud is a low, horizontal, tube-shaped, and relatively rare type of arcus cloud. Roll clouds usually appear to be “rolling” about a horizontal axis. They usually appear at an altitude of […]

C-FLOOD App: Union Jal Shakti Minister inaugurated C-FLOOD, India’s first unified web-based flood inundation forecasting platform.C-FLOOD is a web-based, real-time flood forecasting system that provides two-day advance inundation forecasts through flood maps and water level predictions. Developed By Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune Objective: To provide an integrated, high-resolution flood forecasting tool […]

Mount Shinmoedake: Japan’s Mount Shinmoedake, a volcano in the Kirishima mountain range on Kyushu Island, erupted recently, sending a towering ash plume into the sky. Mount Shinmoedake is an active stratovolcano located on Kyushu Island, Japan, within the Kirishima mountain range. It rises 1420.8 meters above sea level as part of the volcanic complex in […]