earthquake

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Poetry Live have quickly put together an event to raise funds for the DEC Haiti Earthquake Appeal. Twenty fantastic poets – including Roger McGough, Andrew Motion, Jo Shapcott, Glyn Maxwell and Gillian Clarke – are appearing at Westminster Central …

Taken from Ben Hopper’s Flickr photostream via the Londonist Flickr pool This Week In London’s History Monday – 6th April 1580: An earthquake, later estimated at a Richter magnitude between 5.3 and 5.9, causes the only recorded London fatalities to be attributed to such an …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 9th February 1996: The IRA detonates a massive bomb near South Quay DLR station, just south of Canary Wharf. The explosion kills two men working in a nearby newsagents shop and causes £85 million worth of damage to …

Fortunately, there are as yet no news reports of the sky tumbling down. No, it wasn’t a case of a bad couple of pints you got at the pub yesterday evening, nor was it the magnitude of the moment you were sharing with that special …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 11th February 1826: The University of London is founded. It would later be known as University College London (or UCL). Tuesday – 12th February 1554: Lady Jane Grey and her husband Lord Guildford Dudley are executed at the …

This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it’s important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too – two of them in -Ist cities. …

Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to. In Austin, bands are beginning to confirm for SXSW and the rumor …

Alas, Londonist never got to visit the biscuit city deep in the bowels of Selfridges. Nor did we witness the desperate scramble and crumb-laden aftermath as the edible artwork was scoffed yesterday. It all sounds rather bonkers. Once the first building was toppled, there was …

Over on Channel Four right now Jon Snow is discussing yet another top ten list – this one is a little more interesting than most as it’s been compiled by one of Britain’s leading experts in disaster management to assess the major risks facing this …

As we all know, a terrorist attack on London is “inevitable”, which probably means we should be prepared for it. Thank the Lord then for London Resilience. They may sound like a vigilante guerilla group but they are actually the “strategic partnership that is working …