That was a bad translation. They were testing 12 contacts for cases of transmission, not that they had 12 cases.

Unrelated. Earthquakes happen all the time. You don't hear about them because usually the big ones don't hit in extremely vulnerable areas like Turkey. One does, and for a month or so, the media freaks out about earthquakes for a while.

Papua New Guinea is located in the Ring Of Fire, and has several large volcanoes. Like Japan (also in the Ring of Fire), quakes like this are not uncommon.

Until the Big One hits.

I live in an area where one would struggle to survive.

Except Iguanas are way larger and quite a bit meaner!

Yea it's looking more like the airline industry will transfer to biofuels and work to be carbon neutral than go for non carbon fuels.

Junk news like this puts legitimate pets whit loving owners in danger. Pet Reptiles, even harmless ones like Ball Pythons, are already under attack in the US, Australia, and in some European countries.

Posting a photo of one of the most common, easy to care for, personable, and affectionate pet Reptiles in the world and equating them to a wild animal 3x it's size makes people afraid that the average Joe's pet snake down the road might get out and eat their kid. So they demand it gets banned, and all of a sudden we are looking at a species Whitelist on what can be kept, vs the current blacklist method showing what can't be kept.

Could be a precursor to another eruption, but unlikely. No major uplift has been shown in the area...