Each February 15, John Frum Day, the people on Tana Island in the Republic of Vanuatu hold a giant celebration. As they keep an eye out for a person named John Frum, others put on crude US Army pants, paint “USA” on their backs and fly a copy of the American flag up the […]
At 00:32 in the morning of May 14th, a strong earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck the Mariana Islands. The epicenter was 30 km west of Agrihan, where there is a volcano. The Mariana Islands are located south of Japan and north of New Guinea, and form the eastern limit of the Philippine Sea. They are […]