Earth Day devoted to earthquakes and volcanoes

This year’s Earth Day –on April 22 -will be devoted to earthquakes, volcanoes and other natural disasters, the Czech Academy of Sciences announced on Monday. The Academy which annually organizes seminars, workshops for children and public debates on Earth Day, said this year’s topics had been selected due to an enormous wave of interest in these phenomena on the part of the general public following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan.