SHAKE AND BLOW - INDO DAILY

Powerful earthquake rocks Myanmar, Thailand

Mar 28, 2025 (AFP)

The 7.7-magnitude tremor hit northwest of the city of Sagaing on Friday afternoon at a shallow depth, the United States Geological Survey said. A 6.4-magnitude ...

First deaths confirmed as 'mass casualty' quake hits Myanmar, Thailand

Mar 28, 2025 (AFP)

The shallow 7.7-magnitude tremor hit northwest of the city of Sagaing, central Myanmar, and was followed minutes later by a 6.4-magnitude aftershock, toppling b...

'Mass casualty' quake rocks Myanmar, Thailand

Mar 28, 2025 (AFP)

The 7.7-magnitude tremor hit northwest of the city of Sagaing on Friday afternoon at a shallow depth, the United States Geological Survey said. A 6.4-magnitude ...

Climate change partly behind deadly Argentine deluge: report

Mar 27, 2025 (AFP)

The city of 350,000 people was hit by torrential downpours on March 7 that in just a few hours doubled the annual average. Two sisters aged one and five swept a...

Magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits off New Zealand's South Island

Mar 25, 2025 (AFP)

The tremor hit at 2:43 pm (0143 GMT) at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) off the southwest tip of New Zealand's South Island, according to the USGS. Centred...

Central Spanish town under threat from flooding

Mar 22, 2025 (AFP)

Television images showed several neighbourhoods in Avila, a city famous for its fortifications located about 100 kilometres from the Spanish capital, and surrou...

Flights cancelled after Indonesia volcano eruption

Mar 21, 2025 (AFP)

Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, a 1,703-metre (5,587-foot) twin-peaked volcano on the tourist island of Flores, erupted for 11 minutes and nine seconds late Thursday,...

Japan panel drafts response plan for Mount Fuji eruption

Mar 21, 2025 (AFP)

The guidelines were issued to the region's more than 44 million residents by experts, convened by the Cabinet Office. The panel also called on municipalities an...

Mozambique cyclone cluster raises fears of new norm

Mar 19, 2025 (AFP)

The unusually clustered series of cyclones has also piled pressure on aid groups assisting people in the area, where the repeated disasters have destroyed tens ...

Toll from US weekend tornadoes rises to at least 40

Mar 17, 2025 (AFP)

Local news channels across the affected region showed video of roofs torn off homes, trees felled, and trucks overturned by high winds. Eight people died in Kan...

Florence averts disaster thanks to key floodgate

Mar 15, 2025 (AFP)

About 250 people were evacuated from their homes Friday after the equivalent of a month's worth of rain fell in six hours, flooding streets and swelling waterwa...

Quake damages buildings, sparks panic in Italy's Naples

Mar 13, 2025 (AFP)

The main quake was recorded at 1:25 am (0025 GMT) at a depth of 2.5 kilometres, according to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV). It was...

Cyclone kills six people in Mozambique

Mar 12, 2025 (AFP)

Cyclone Jude hit the Indian Ocean country on Monday, bringing winds of up to 195 kilometres (more than 120 miles) an hour and more than 250mm (10 inches) of rai...

Heat from the Sun Linked to Seismic Activity on Earth

Mar 11, 2025 (SPX)

Recent studies have investigated possible connections between seismic activity and external forces such as tidal effects from the Moon or electromagnetic influe...

Argentina searches for baby, sister swept away by floods

Mar 11, 2025 (AFP)

More than a year's worth of rain fell in a matter of hours Friday, inundating entire neighborhoods of the port city about an eight-hour drive south from Buenos ...

Guatemala volcanic eruption deemed over after spewing lava, evacuations

Mar 11, 2025 (AFP)

By night, however, the eruption was declared over, and evacuees were allowed to begin returning to their homes. Residents with traumatic memories of a deadly er...

Residents evacuated as Guatemalan volcano spews lava, rocks

Mar 10, 2025 (AFP)

Residents with traumatic memories of a deadly eruption in 2018 sought refuge after the Fuego volcano exploded spectacularly 35 kilometers (22 miles) from the ca...

Argentina declares national mourning as flood death toll hits 16

Mar 10, 2025 (AFP)

The deadly floods struck Friday when a year's worth of rain fell in a matter of hours in and around Bahia Blanca, a major port city located in the south of Buen...

Floods, mass power cuts as wild weather bashes eastern Australia

Mar 09, 2025 (AFP)

After days hovering off the coast as a category 2 tropical cyclone and battering a 400-kilometre (250-mile) stretch of coastline, Alfred weakened into a tropica...

Argentina flooding death toll rises to 16, two girls missing

Mar 09, 2025 (AFP)

The city, located in the south of Buenos Aires province and home to one of the country's largest ports, saw a year's worth of rain in a matter of hours on Frida...