THE 7.8 Mw EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI OF 16th April 2016 IN ECUADOR: Seismic Evaluation, Geological Field Survey and Economic Implications

We evaluated the recent earthquake and tsunami responsible for considerable damage and 663 deaths due to a 7.8Mw movement on the 16th of April 2016.The seismic event filled tens of thousands in refugee camps and affected some two million persons directly.The potential of high losses and damage with a total of 29,672 properties, including family hou

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Editorial. Iron Age Settlement in Wales

In 2004, the four Welsh archaeological trusts began an assessment of the Iron Age hillforts, promontory forts and defended enclosures and enclosed farmsteads, grant-aided by Cadw, as Activity Toys part of a continuing programme of threat-related assessments.Following completion of the assessment in 2008, it was considered that the accumulated infor

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Tempo rubato : animacy speeds up time in the brain.

BackgroundHow do we estimate time Gifts when watching an action? The idea that events are timed by a centralized clock has recently been called into question in favour of distributed, specialized mechanisms.Here we provide evidence for a critical specialization: animate and inanimate events are separately timed by humans.Methodology/principal findi

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