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A magnitude-5.3 earthquake hit Tokyo and nearby areas on Friday, following an unprecedented government advisory on earthquake risks, briefly disrupting metro services without triggering a tsunami alert.
 

Japan is located where four big tectonic plates meet namely, the Pacific Plate, the Philippine Sea Plate, the Eurasian Plate, and the North American Plate. This makes the area very earthquake-prone.

Explore Point Nemo, the loneliest place on Earth in the South Pacific Ocean, where few have ventured, amidst space debris.
 

Jake Sullivan's visit to India strengthens US-India ties through technology cooperation, amid diplomatic discussions on legal matters and regional security concerns.
 

The White House Marine band played the Indian patriotic song 'Sare Jahan se Achha' at the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month celebration event. 

Heather Stewart, a Scottish scientist from Edinburgh, recently made history when she joined an all-female crew on the deepest dive ever. 
 

Dia Mirza is an Indian model and actress. In the year 2000, Dia won the title of Miss Asia Pacific and was the second runner-up of Miss India beauty pageant. In the year 2001, Dia made her acting debut with the film ‘Rehna Hai Terre Dil Mein’.

In the coming weeks, vaccines will be supplied to more countries in Africa, Latin America, CARICOM and Pacific Island states.

‘India is one of the most important partners in the Indo-Pacific region to us. We welcome India's emergence as a leading global power and its role as a net security provider in the region,’ told US State Department spokesperson Ned Price during a press briefing
 

 The US, India, Japan and Australia are exploring to evolve a common approach on 5G telecom technology, expanding their strategic cooperation under the framework of Quadrilateral coalition or "Quad" which was primarily focused on the Indo-Pacific region

The concept of the Indo-Pacific has incorporated India into the larger solution and the Trump administration is developing new arrangements to coordinate with like-minded partners like the Quad countries, a top American diplomat has told lawmakers

The continued cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region and also the stability in Afghanistan would be two key issues that would be up for discussion between Trump and Modi. 

Hello and welcome to this episode of DePress Room, my name is Amal Chowdhury and today we will be talking about how a blob of hot water in the Pacific Ocean killed a million seabirds. As many as one million seabirds died at sea in less than 12 months in one of the largest mass die-offs in recorded history -- and researchers say warm ocean waters are to blame.

Hello and welcome to this episode of DePress Room, my name is Amal Chowdhury and today we will be talking about how the Asia Pacific region is facing the brunt of Climate Change. The world's most disaster-prone region felt the harsh reality of the climate crisis in 2019.

This is Manoj Bajpayee's second best actor award at APSA after his performance in Aligarh in 2016