V. Zlatić,1,2 R. Monnier,3 and J. K. Freericks4 1Institute of Physics, Bijenička c. 46, 10001 Zagreb, Croatia 2International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Via Beirut 2-4, I-34014 Trieste, Italy 3ETH Hönggerberg, Laboratorium für Festkörperphysik, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland 4Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20057, USA Received 7 April 2008; revised manuscript r...

Yamir Moreno, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Alexei Vázquez, and Alessandro Vespignani The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, P.O. Box 586, 34100 Trieste, Italy 2 Departament de F́ısica i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord, Mòdul B4, 08034 Barcelona, Spain International School for Advanced Studies SISSA/ISAS, via Beirut 4, 34014 Trieste, Italy...

The 4 August 2020 Port of Beirut blast caused material damage to an estimated 77,000 apartments located across 10,000 buildings within a 3 km radius the blast, impacting around 300,000, people predominantly in municipality Karantina, which is situated adjacent Beirut. shed light on instability and unsustainable development approach city since well before French mandate circa 1921–1940. impact p...