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By Quentin McDermott
image captionKathleen Folbigg, pictured after a court hearing in 2004
Imagine for a moment what it must feel like if, as a mother, you give birth to four children, one after another, each of whom, as infants, dies from natural causes over a 10-year period.
Then imagine being wrongly accused of smothering them all and being sentenced to 30 years in jail for four terrible crimes you did not commit.
That narrative is emerging as potentially the true story of Kathleen Folbigg, an Australian mother from the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales (NSW).
Branded at her trial in 2003 as Australia s worst female serial killer , Folbigg has already spent nearly 18 years in prison after being found guilty of the manslaughter of her firstborn Caleb, and the murder of her three subsequent children, Patrick, Sarah and Laura.
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11.03.2021
Many processes behind giant earthquakes are still not understood. Ten years after the Tohoku-oki earthquake in Japan, an international team aims to unravel the sedimentary archive of past earthquakes in the Japan Trench. Michael Strasser from the Sedimentary Geology Working Group is one of the scientific leaders of the deep sea-expedition in the framework of the IODP.
Image: Research vessel Kaimei. (Credit: JAMSTEC)
Exactly ten years ago today, on 11 March 2011, Japan was unexpectedly struck by one of the most severe earthquakes ever recorded, resulting in a disaster. The Tohoku-oki earthquake registered 9.0 on the moment magnitude scale (Mw) – a - precise scientific indication of the strength of earthquakes: it triggered a tsunami with enormous destructive force that killed thousands of people and resulted in a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant. Smaller earthquakes are not unusual