This photo was taken behind a church in Colleville-sur-Mer (Normandy) on June 14, 1944, shortly after the Allied amphibious landing, and showed three French civilians chatting casually with the American cameraman of 162nd or 165th Signal Photo Company near the corpse of the army German. The third stand from the left is the medical captain of ESB Omaha (5th or 6th company) identified from his helmet and red cross arm band. The photograph of the famous photographer Robert Capa was first published by LIFE magazine 3rd edition of July 1944 on page 11, and the censorship of the day has made the unit's logo on the helmet and the arm badge in the warrior with the back to the camera on the right to be invisible (actually it comes from from 82nd Airborne Division / First US Army).
As the Allied forces moved deeper in Normandy, the French people, under the direct orders of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, carried out sabotage actions and anything they could do to obstruct the efforts of the Wehrmacht troops fighting in his country. The German soldier in this photograph was killed by a Frenchman who had previously been forced to work for the Nazis at a salary of $ 2 per week. The Landser most likely came from 3.Kompanie / I.Bataillon / Grenadier-regiment 726 / 716.Infanterie-Division which was at that time placed in Colleville-sur-Mer.
Scientists predict the existence of a super-powerful earthquake or mega-quake following a powerful earthquake that hit the Ring of Fire region in the last week. After Japan, Ecuador was also hit by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that killed at least 77 people.The earthquake also recorded rocked the Tonga Islands area which is still one of a series of Pacific subduction zones. Large earthquake that hit the territory of Japan occurred twice, ie on Thursday (14/4/2016) scale 6.2 and Saturday (16/4/2016) scale 7.3. Then on Sunday (17/4/2016), a magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit Tonga near the Pacific.
There were no reports of damage caused by the incident. Finally, the other end of the Ring of Fire, Ecuador is also shaken by a magnitude 7.8 magnitude earthquake. University of Colorado seismologist Roger Bilham said the series of events could trigger an earthquake with a force of about four times greater than the magnitude of 8.0. "And if delayed, the pressure accumulated over the centuries triggered a more dangerous mega earthquake," Roger said as quoted by the Daily Mail on Monday (04/18/2016).
In addition to four major quakes in the region, last week there was also a thrill in the Philippines, Vanuatu and Myanmar which is also on the Ring of Fire path.As reported by Tribun Jambi, residents in Nias Selatan, North Sumatera province were also shocked by two earthquakes on Sunday with a scale of 5 and 5.1 SR. To note, the Ring of Fire path is shaped like a horseshoe that stretches across the Pacific Ocean. It becomes the location where tectonic plates are shifted so that earthquakes and volcanoes are common. According to the US Geological Survey, an independent agency that monitors natural disasters, mega earthquakes are rare, but not unlikely.
The reason, the area where plate shifts occur capable of producing a magnitude 10 SR earthquake. But scientists have not been able to fully account for the mega quake, as it has only measured seismic activity in the last 100 years. The quake that occurred in Ecuador Sunday night became the largest in the last few decades for the country. In addition to killing 77 people, the quake wounded 588 people
In 1992, an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale struck the island of Flores until it was felt as far as the island of Bali. At least 2,000 people die and 18,000 homes are damaged. Uniquely, the number of fatalities of female sex more than doubled the number of male victims.
The tectonic earthquake shook Yogyakarta on May 27, 2006. A magnitude of 5.9 on the Richter Scale lasted only 57 seconds, killing more than 5,700 people, injuring tens of thousands of people, and destroying hundreds of thousands of homes. This quake occurred in the morning, and caused people trapped inside the house, especially children and parents, so that the majority of the dead were children and the elderly
