The introduction of the 5 Euro Access Fee in Venice, starts April 25, 2024, and signifies a significant step towards managing and limiting tourist numbers in the ancient city.
How does this help in promoting sustainable tourism?
{Two killed and six injured in a six-vehicle accident in Tampines on the morning of April 22.
Traffic accidents claimed the lives of 136 people in 2023, a 25.9 per cent jump from the 108 deaths in 2022, according to the Traffic Police’s (TP) annual statistics report.
Why is traffic accidents a hazard in urban neighbourhood?
What was the main cause in the increase of traffic accidents in 2023?
Speed cameras and red-light cameras are used to detect violations with the help of laser technology, radar technology or detector loops embedded in the road.
How will this help to reduce traffic accidents?
What are other measures implemented to reduce traffic congestion?
The intensity of Mt Ruang’s eruptions and the amount of material ejected were comparable to the 2010 eruptions of Mt Merapi, Indonesia’s most volatile volcano located 2,000km away in Java, which killed 353 people. Yet, no lives were lost during Mt Ruang’s eruptions despite the relatively short window for the island’s inhabitants to evacuate. Community resilience in terms of preparedness played an important part.
Hundreds of flights were cancelled and roads were flooded after heavy thunderstorms caused 5.6 inches of rain to fall in Dubai in one day, almost 2 years of rain in average. Four people died in the United Arab Emirates due to the flood.
Taroko National Park will be closed until April 7 2024. The park named after its landmark gorge will be closed for five days to ensure the safety of tourists.
In a notice on its website, the park said some tourists were injured on its trails, which had been damaged to different degrees by the quake and continued to be hit by tremors.
Since the quake struck, more than 25 tremors (aftershocks) measuring at least 4.5-magnitude have been detected within 50km of Hualien City, according to the US Geological Survey.
During the park’s closure, roads and trails will be repaired and the safety of the area will be assessed.
There were more than 600 aftershocks, with magnitude as high as 5.4 on 4 April at 6.01pm. The map below shows the intensity of the aftershock at the various regions in Taiwan.
The number of casualties from the 3 April 2024 earthquake is much lower than that of the one in 1999. One of the reasons is preparedness level. Why is Taiwan prone to earthquakes? How does the monitoring and warning system help? What are the preparedness for responses and recovery? How do the hazard resistant buildings help in reducing the vulnerability?
