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News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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Volcano erupts after quake in Russia's far east
Jul 30, 2025 (AFP)
Eruptions of the Klyuchevskoy volcano -- the highest active in Europe and Asia -- are quite common, with at least 18 of them happening since 2000 according to t...
Millions return home as Pacific tsunami warnings lifted
Jul 30, 2025 (AFP)
After one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded rattled Russia's sparsely populated Far East, more than a dozen nations -- from Japan to the United States ...
Huge quake off Russia sparks Pacific tsunami warnings
Jul 30, 2025 (AFP)
The magnitude 8.8 quake struck in the morning off Petropavlovsk on Russia's remote Kamchatka peninsula and was one of the 10 biggest recorded, according to the ...
Russian TV shows buildings swept away as tsunami hits coast
Jul 30, 2025 (AFP)
An 8.8 magnitude megaquake struck off the coast of Russia's far eastern Kamchatka peninsula earlier, prompting evacuations and tsunami alerts across parts of th...
Shanghai evacuates 283,000 people as typhoon hits
Jul 30, 2025 (AFP)
The city's meteorological observatory issued an orange rainstorm alert, the second-highest warning level, on Wednesday afternoon as sheets of water inundated th...
Shanghai evacuates 283,000 people as typhoon nears: state media
Jul 30, 2025 (AFP)
The Shanghai Central Meteorological Observatory on Wednesday afternoon upgraded an earlier yellow rainstorm alert to orange, the second highest warning level. T...
Heavy rains kill 15 in Guinea since late June; Nigeria flash floods kill 23: UN
Jul 29, 2025 (AFP)
Besides the heavy rain, the flooding was worsened by uncontrolled construction and clogged gutters, the director of Guinea's National Agency for Emergency and H...
Heavy rain, landslides kill more than 30 in northern China
Jul 29, 2025 (AFP)
Weather authorities have issued their second-highest rainstorm warning for the capital Beijing, neighbouring Hebei and Tianjin, as well as 10 other provinces, s...
Vietnam flash flood kills five, dozens evacuated
Jul 29, 2025 (AFP)
Heavy rains triggering flash floods were reported Saturday night in Son La province, destroying 22 houses, damaging scores more and forcing dozens of families t...
Four killed as heavy rain, flooding soaks northern China
Jul 28, 2025 (AFP)
Authorities in Beijing have issued the country's second-highest warning for rainstorms and the highest for floods, with the downpours expected to last into Tues...
Boats bring Philippine flood victims to safety as death toll rises
Jul 25, 2025 (AFP)
Schools remained closed and electricity was down in swathes of the archipelago nation's largest island as the national disaster agency reported 25 dead and eigh...
Magnitude 6.6 quake hits off Samoa coast: USGS
Jul 25, 2025 (AFP)
The quake struck at a depth of 314 kilometres (195 miles) at 12:37 pm (2337 GMT Thursday), more than 400 kilometres from Samoa's southwest coast, the USGS said....
Half of the 266 Pakistan monsoon deaths are children: govt
Jul 25, 2025 (AFP)
Most of the deaths have occurred in Punjab, the most populous province, where monsoon rainfall has been 70 percent higher than last year, said Mazhar Hussain fr...
Philippines shuts schools, scraps flights as Typhoon Co-May nears
Jul 24, 2025 (AFP)
Typhoon Co-May, upgraded from a tropical storm overnight, follows days of monsoon rains that have killed at least 19 people and left another 11 missing across t...
Flooding from storm Wipha cuts off hundreds in Vietnam
Jul 23, 2025 (AFP)
Around 12,500 people were evacuated from high risk areas over the weekend, before the storm made landfall on Tuesday bringing heavy rains that triggered landsli...
Philippines flooding displaces thousands, two missing
Jul 22, 2025 (AFP)
Schools and government offices in Manila and the surrounding provinces were closed after a night of rain that saw the region's Marikina River burst its banks. M...
Philippines flooding displaces thousands as new storm threatens
Jul 22, 2025 (AFP)
At least six people have died and another six remain missing after Tropical Storm Wipha skirted the country on Friday, according to the National Disaster Risk R...
Flash floods in eastern China leave 2 dead, 10 missing; Philippines flooding displaces thousands, two missing
Jul 22, 2025 (AFP)
Up to 364 millimetres (14 inches) of rain lashed parts of the provincial capital Jinan between midnight and 5 am, according to state broadcaster CCTV. The downp...
SE Denmark sees record downpour, first ever 'dangerous' rains alert
Jul 22, 2025 (AFP)
On Monday it issued its first ever red alerts for "very dangerous" rain in the area. The DMI has been warning for several years that climate change is increasin...
Iceland engulfed by volcanic cloud
Jul 21, 2025 (AFP)
Two craters of a volcano on the Reykjanes peninsula spewed out the sulphur-packed cloud on Wednesday. The thick haze has left the capital Reykjavik and the sout...
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