Geography

Three days after the first major earthquake, another one occurred.

In 2003, a team of scientists applied the tests used by the Viking 1 and Viking 2 Martian landers to detect life in the Atacama region and failed to detect any signs of life in the desert soil in the Yungay region.

Mountains account for about 24% of the land area on earth.

A macrolide antibiotic used in modern medicine was first isolated in 1975 from Streptomyces hygroscopicus bacteria from a soil sample taken on Easter Island.

The Caspian Sea is a dumping site of over 1 million cubic meters of sewage annually.

The lake is very important for the fishing industry. It provides food for hundreds of thousands of families.

The 1980 disaster was the first major eruption since 1800.

According to Clyde S. Kilby, a prominent literary scholar, J. R. R. Tolkien based the Mount Doom, volcano located in Mordor, Middle-earth with the Stromboli volcano.

Martinique is the most remote region of the European Union.

Some parts of the river are closed to the public and are considered military zone.