You can see the international press review with James Creedon every weekday morning at 9.10am, Paris time, on France 24.

The Independent in the UK covers yesterday’s earthquakes off Indonesia and Samoa. The the paper’s Science Editor, Steven Connor, analyses events and says the two quakes may have been linked.

In general earthquakes happen on a geological fault line where two immense slabs of rock grind up against each other – the stress of that can create a slip which leads to the earthquake.

A study published in the Journal Nature has found that an earthquake at one fault can affect the strength of another fault line elsewhere in the world. This study showed that the 2004 earthquake off Sumatra which caused the devastating tsunami has affected the San Andreas Fault in California.

The earthquakes are also front page news in Australia which has sent aircraft to American Samoa with medical teams, disaster specialist and emergency supplies. The headline of the Sydney Morning Herald: “The fatal shore”.

Here are the other articles we looked at in today’s international press review:

Sydney Morning Herald: Happy birthday, Red China (editorial)

Sydney Morning Herald: No democracy but a true Great Leap Forward

China Daily: Celebrating 60 years.

South China Morning Post: Next great leap forward must be liberty and justice (editorial)

The Sun: Voters: “Reds blew it for us too”

 
The International Herald Tribune: Talk, even when they can’t talk back