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The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reports that an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 has struck close to the Ecuadorian coast.

According to EMSC, the quake was 23 kilometers (14.29 miles) deep.

Buildings are clearly visible damage from an earthquake, according to images shared online. No casualties were immediately reported.

earthquakes in the past

Ecuador’s history of seismic disasters is complex and agonizing.

At least 14 people were killed and homes, schools, and medical facilities destroyed in a quake that erupted in northern Peru and southern Ecuador in 2013 and left them in critical condition.

At least 77 people were killed and more than 500 others were hurt in Ecuador’s strongest earthquake, magnitude 7.8, in 2016 after a devastating earthquake of magnitude 7.8, which hit the country’s hardest since 1979.

The nation is located along the volatile seismic and vulcanic “Ring of Fire” in the Pacific, which circles the ocean.

Ecuador lies atop the boundary between the massive tectonic plates of South America and Nazca, which both grind against one another and move at a rate of 65 millimeters (2. 5 inches) annually.

A woman’s body, according to archaeologists, is thought to have been preserved for up to five thousand years. The oldest city in the Americas, Caral, is thought to be the home of the mummy.

*Asif Dar unapologetically realized that “all eyes were on me” as he passed through the narrow and crowded streets of Jalandhar, a city in the northern state of Punjab.

And their gazes weren’t friendly.

Dar recalled that “I felt like everyone in the audience was committing retribution.”

Two unidentified people approached them as Dar and a friend stopped by an ATM and inquired about their ethnicity. They ran away in a panic. Dar left his home the following day, April 23 to purchase milk. According to Dar, “Three men saw me and hurled islamophobic slurs.” One of them yelled, “He is a Kashmiri, everything happens for him.”

26 tourists were killed and dozens injured when gunmen opened fire on tourists in Kashmir’s resort town of Pahalgam on April 22.

The killings have also uncovered the nation’s religious and ethnic divides, even though New Delhi has attributed the attack to Pakistan, which an armed group claimed sought secession from India.

Kashmiris living across India have reported being heckled, harassed, and threatened by far-right Hindu organizations or even their classmates as the Indian government searches for the attackers in Kashmir’s dense jungles and mountains.

Shopkeepers are refusing to trade with them, and landlords are pushing Kashmiri tenants out from Uttarakhand, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh. As they make their way home, a number of Kashmiri students are sleeping in airports.

The deadly attack was carried out by another person. Dar responded, “And we are now left here to pay the price.”

“Mistrust is everywhere I look.”

India and Pakistan both claim the entire region of Kashmir, but they also rule in some places.

Islamabad has accused the Pahalgam attack and “cross-border terrorism” of being directly involved. Pakistan refutes the accusations, claiming that it only gives moral and diplomatic support to Kashmiri nationalism. India has claimed that it has not provided any proof of Pakistan’s involvement in the Pahalgam attack, which has sparked a tense standoff between the nuclear-armed neighbors: both countries are evicting each other’s citizens and reducing the diplomatic effectiveness of their missions in their respective capitals.

However, Kashmiris are most enraged by the attack from Tuesday inside of India.

A further ten Kashmiris who spoke with Al Jazeera, who were speaking anonymous, claimed they had locked themselves inside their rooms in at least seven cities in India and stayed away from online purchases and cab reservations.

In Jalandhar, Dar attends a second-semester class studying anesthesia and operating theatre technology. Dar has for the first time left Kashmir and his parents to pursue higher education.

In a phone interview, he said, “I want to study hard for my future because there are no opportunities in Kashmir.” “I will be able to support my family if I do well here.”

But he finds solace in the actuality. Dar claimed that as a result of his term exams looming down his spine, he has grown anxious and depressed. He claimed, “I have forgotten everything I have learned in these months.” I may stay non-attendant [at class], return to my home, or go home because “my head just doesn’t work.”

He said, “There is mistrust everywhere I look.” Our faces and features reveal our ethnicity, and we are also cursed.

Multiple survivor accounts emerged shortly after the attack, suggesting that the gunmen had separated the attacked tourists according to their religion. 25 of the 26 people who were killed were Hindu men.

The identity of the 26th victim, a Kashmiri Muslim man who attempted to stop the attackers from killing the tourists, was largely overlooked in the roost of anti-Kashmiri and anti-Muslim sentiment that has permeated Indian social media since Tuesday.

Sheikh Showkat, a political analyst and academic from Kashmir, claimed that “today’s India is high on xenophobic propaganda that has been unleashed for some time and mostly targets Muslims.”

Being a Kashmiri and a Muslim, he said, “Kashmiris bear a double burden.” They are “the simple targets always.”

Give this treatment to Muslims from Kashmir.

The leader of a far-right Hindutva outfit issued a chilling warning on Tuesday in Dehradun, the capital of Uttarakhand state, nearly 350 kilometers (217 miles) away from Jalandhar.

Kashmiri Muslims, leave by 10am, or else you’ll face action you can’t imagine, according to Lalit Sharma, the Hindu Raksha Dal leader, in a video statement. All of our employees will leave their homes tomorrow to treat Kashmiri Muslims this way.

*Mushtaq Wani, a 29-year-old Kashmiri student in the city, was soon receiving similar warnings on his social media accounts.

Wani, who is older than the majority of Kashmiri students in the city, started getting panicked calls from others as he pursued his master’s degree in library science. He said, “We took the threats seriously.”

Kashmiris have been subjected to violence in the area: shortly after the Pulwama suicide bombing attack that left at least 40 paramilitary personnel dead, Kashmiri students were imprisoned in Dehradun, assaulted, and forced back home. Several people left the city.

Wani lamented, “This is what our life is like.” Why can’t India defeat the militants in a single attack? “This happens again and again. There are so many troopers, and there are so few militants in the country that someone kills someone and causes havoc for our lives.

Wani has coordinated the return of at least 15 students to Kashmir since the threats. For his own good, he is studying for his term exams starting the following week while locked up inside a friend’s home. We are scared and don’t feel safe, but he claimed that if I miss my exams, I could lose a lot.

Wani claimed that Sharma, the far-right leader, was apprehended by the police and that he was relieved that they had been given assurances that the authorities would protect their safety.

“Pahalgam completely altered everything,”

Omar Abdullah, Jammu and Kashmir’s newly elected chief minister, pleaded with other state chiefs on X to ensure the safety of Kashmiris after videos of frightened Kashmiris and of their physical assault in nearly half a dozen Indian cities surfaced on social media.

Later, Abdullah retorted, “I request that the Indian people refrain from treating Kashmiris as their enemies.” “What transpired did not occur without our knowledge.” We are not adversaries.

In the midst of a communications blackout, the Indian government unilaterally revoked the region’s semi-autonomous status and divided the former state into Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. The Jammu and Kashmir government currently has far less power than any other provincial administration, with New Delhi largely in charge.

South Kashmir resident Urs Parray has been a student of pharmacy in Jammu for five years. The union territory’s two administrative blocks are Jammu and Kashmir, which both have Hindu and Muslim populations.

Before Pahalgam, he claimed, life in Jammu had been normal. He claimed that “the Pahalgam attack changed everything.”

Prior to this, Parray would take friends on late-night walks to ice cream shops with them. Parray hasn’t left his house in a Kashmiri neighborhood where many people live since the attack.

Descent riders riding through the neighborhood the night after the attack blared horns and yelled “Jai Shri Ram,” a traditional religious anthem and a rally cry for the far-right movement that has recently been transformed into a war cry.

Later, a video of men running after Kashmiri students in his nearby lane emerged.

He claimed, “We have never seen anything like this.”

A Kashmiri student was brutalized by the mob in Janipur, Jammu, last night, despite being a Muslim and being a Muslim.
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The Jenin refugee camp is blocked from the rest of the city by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank by metal gates. For months, the Israeli military has carried out extensive raids at the camp.

The Oklahoma City Thunder won their first-round series 114-108, beating the Memphis Grizzlies, to take a 3-0 lead. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the team with 31 points and Jalen Williams with 26.

On Thursday night, the Thunder overcame a 29-point deficit in the first half by scoring 23 of his 24 points. With just one more 20 minutes left, Oklahoma City held the lead until Williams made a free throw to give Oklahoma City a 109-108 lead.

With 57.4 seconds left, Holmgren added two free throws, and Alex Caruso added a breakaway layup with 19.4 seconds left. In the final 4:51, the Grizzlies did not score.

Coach of Oklahoma City Mark Daigneault said, “We kind of reconnected to who we are (in the second half).

“We had a very strange first half, and a lot of that came from how well Memphis played and how they landed the first punch and several more punches.” So they deserve praise. However, I thought our response was fantastic in a game that didn’t feel like it was.

Ja Morant, who had a hip injury late in the first half, was not with Memphis during the second half. The Grizzlies led by Scotty Pippen Jr. with 28 points. Jameson Jr. added 22.

Prior to the injury, Morant had 15 points and five assists. A left hip contusion was identified for him. The Grizzlies won the second half 63-31 with Morant.

With 3:14 left in the second quarter, Morant soaring in for a layup after falling heavily on his left while fastbreaking and scoring a layup with. Luguentz Dort cut off Morant’s performance in the play. After a few minutes on the floor while being trained by the Grizzlies, he slowly hobbled to the sidelines.

Before being transported to the locker room, Morant returned to the court to take two missed free throws.

After the game, Memphis interim coach Tuomas Iisalo stated that Morant would be evaluated on Friday, “and then we’ll know more.”

Memphis, which had suffered lopsided losses in Oklahoma City’s opening two games, had lost by 51 points in Game 1 and 19 in Game 2, but still had vigor in their home playoff opener.

The Thunder defeated the Grizzlies 36-18 in the third quarter after going 26-26 at halftime. Oklahoma City cut its lead to 10 points midway through the period, largely in the backseat of Holmgren. The 7-foot-1 forward opened the quarter with a 25-9 run that scored 16 points. The Thunder’s lead reached 95-87 as a result of Williams’ 3-pointer at the end of the third quarter.

Daigneault said, “I give Chet a lot of credit because he scored one point at halftime.” He “had a very quiet, subdued first half.” The mental fortitude to maintain it was also very impressive. And he also did a good job of keeping things defensive.

In the first quarter, the Grizzlies jumped to a double-digit lead. Pippen, who had four of the team’s eight 3-pointers in the fourth quarter, was the catalyst. Late in the second half, the Grizzlies had a 12-point lead on three occasions.

Following a 25-5 run that included 16 consecutive points, the Grizzlies increased their lead to 28 points (65-37) midway through the second quarter. Pippen added seven points in the run, while Morant added nine. With 3:07 left, Desmond Bane layup, giving the lead to 29 points, 69-40.

You have to be able to execute, Iisalo said, “We did a great job fighting for 48 minutes, but against this team it’s not enough to fight.”

Memphis had a halftime lead of 77-51 on a 57.4% shooting percentage and a combined three turnovers. In Game 1, the Grizzlies only managed 80 points.

Clippers and Knicks win Game 3 of the series.

Los Angeles jumped out to a 2-1 series lead thanks to a convincing victory over Denver at Inglewood, California, with the help of Kawhi Leonard, who recorded 21 points, 11 rebounds, and six assists.

Norman Powell added 20 points for the fifth-seeded Clippers, all while James Harden added nine assists and six rebounds. Los Angeles won its second straight game in the best-of-seven first-round series with 19 points and nine rebounds.

For his 20th postseason triple-double, Denver star Nikola Jokic recorded 23 points, 13 rebounds, and 13 assists. The fourth-seeded Nuggets also had 22 points and seven rebounds led by Jamal Murray, who also had 23 points.

In Game 3 of their Eastern Conference first-round playoff series, New York defeated Detroit thanks to Karl-Anthony Towns scoring 31 points and Jalen Brunson adding 30, including 12.

The Knicks, who currently lead the best-of-seven series 2-1, host the Knicks on Sunday in Detroit, scored 22 points. In Game 3, Brunson added nine assists and seven rebounds, while his first two games averaged 35.5%.