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IFP Editorial: While BJP remains the only party to nominate candidates in all 60 constituencies, Congress managed only 54 candidates. NPP and NPF have put up 42 and 10 candidates respectively.

IFP Editorial: Once a formidable force and one of the last Congress bastions in the wake of the BJP wave, Manipur Congress is certainly struggling.

Alarm goes off, a major earthquake will hit this fire station and the community around it. at least it would if this werent just a drill. >> every other national hazard has warnings issued for it. earthquakes dont. >> until now. thanks to a cutting edge technology, developed by a silicon valley startup, centers like these can detect the quake, 30 seconds to a minute before it hits. >> this fire station, doors roll up, for a school, an alarm might sound, teachers tell their kids to duck and cover...

S-wave and a p-wave and you dont usually feel that, it sets off the alarm and the s-wave is a few minutes later and is more destructive and sends out a sensor to other station around. >> five in paul springs and 7 in the other counties, allow us to have early detection of the quake before the shaking starts to be able to get our personnel in safety and get our apparatus out of the station, because we know that there is likely going to be damaging shakes from the large earthquake and we want to b...

Slam and sort of compression. as you can see the waves compressing and extending, compressing and extending as they move through earth. >> kind of like pushing a slinky. >> exactly. >> you can feel that -- >> jolt. >> like one jolt. okay. >> thats right. >> then "s." >> theyre the next waves to arrive. these have an up-and-down motion, so higher amplitude, more shaking. >> more damage will happen with this. >> exactly. when the surface waves -- both the p wave and the s wave travel through the e...