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Indonesia volcano spews huge ash tower, exclusion zone widened
Nov 08, 2024 (AFP)
Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, a 1,703-metre (5,587-foot) twin-peaked volcano on the tourist island of Flores, has erupted more than a dozen times this week, killing...
Philippines cleans up after Typhoon Yinxing slams north coast
Nov 08, 2024 (AFP)
But while nearly 30,000 people took cover in government-run facilities in the days and hours before Yinxing made landfall, there were no reported casualties fro...
NASA: Hurricane Helene produced 'enormous' gravity waves in upper atmosphere
Nov 08, 2024 (UPI)
NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment, or AWE, was launched in November 2023 and mounted on the outside of the International Space Station. Its mission is to scan...
Rafael cuts power in Cuba; Thousands flee Typhoon Yinxing in Philippines
Nov 07, 2024 (AFP)
Rafael strengthened to a major Category 3 hurricane as it made landfall on the Caribbean island of 10 million people. It hit in western Artemisa province, east ...
Submerged cemeteries pile pain on Spain flood survivors
Nov 07, 2024 (AFP)
"The destruction is enormous," said Salvador Pons, an employee at the municipal cemetery in the devastated town of Catarroja who was directing a group of volunt...
Spain's young flood helpers smash 'snowflake' stereotype with 93 still missing
Nov 06, 2024 (AFP)
Valencia's superior court of justice had on Tuesday listed 89 people as missing but said another four missing persons had been reported to law enforcement offic...
Indonesia to relocate thousands around volcano after eruptions
Nov 06, 2024 (AFP)
Authorities raised Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki's alert level to the highest of a four-tiered system after several eruptions since Sunday evening, telling locals an...
Cuba on alert as Hurricane Rafael approaches
Nov 06, 2024 (AFP)
Rafael was strengthening en route to the Cayman Islands on Tuesday, according to the National Hurricane Center in the United States. The agency declared Rafael ...
Newly detected seismic wave may enable earlier warnings for remote oceanic eruptions
Nov 05, 2024 (SPX)
The study proposes that this seismic wave resulted from a sudden fracture within a weak portion of the oceanic crust beneath the volcano's caldera wall. This ru...
Indonesia volcano eruption kills 10, sets houses aflame
Nov 04, 2024 (AFP)
Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, a 1,703-metre (5,587-feet) twin volcano located on the popular tourist island of Flores, erupted shortly before midnight, forcing auth...
Tsunami Tracked by International SWOT Satellite After Greenland Rockslide
Nov 03, 2024 (SPX)
SWOT observed water levels in Dickson Fjord on September 17, 2023, just a day after the rockslide initiated the tsunami. This data was compared to normal water ...
More than 66,000 Cubans evacuated over flooding fears
Nov 03, 2024 (AFP)
The majority of evacuees are in the municipalities San Antonio del Sur and Imias, where Oscar caused historic flooding and killed eight people a fortnight ago, ...
Spanish royals to visit flood-hit region as fresh downpours loom
Nov 03, 2024 (AFP)
Hopes of finding survivors ebbed five days after torrents of muddy water wrecked towns and infrastructure in Spain's worst such disaster in decades. Nearly all ...
Spain flood deaths top 200, steps up aid
Nov 02, 2024 (AFP)
Hopes of finding survivors more than three days after torrents of mud-filled water submerged towns and wrecked infrastructure were slim in the European country'...
Japan urges 200,000 people to evacuate due to heavy rain
Nov 02, 2024 (AFP)
The Japan Meteorological Agency said "warm, moist air... was causing heavy rainfall with thunderstorms in western Japan" partly due to Kong-rey, which was downg...
Taiwan cleans up after Typhoon Kong-rey leaves two dead
Nov 01, 2024 (AFP)
Typhoon Kong-rey was packing wind speeds of 184 kilometres an hour (114 miles per hour) when it slammed into eastern Taiwan on Thursday, uprooting trees, trigge...
Rescuers race to find those washed away by Spain's floods
Oct 31, 2024 (AFP)
Since the floods ravaged the southeastern Spanish village on Tuesday evening, the Castilla-La Mancha region's rescuers have been working round the clock to loca...
Spain races to save victims as floods kill 95
Oct 31, 2024 (AFP)
About 1,000 troops joined police and firefighters in the grim search for bodies in the Valencia region as Spain started three days of mourning. The toll will ri...
Kong-rey among biggest typhoons to hit Taiwan in decades
Oct 31, 2024 (AFP)
Packing maximum wind speeds of 184 kilometres per hour (114 miles per hour), Kong-rey slammed into eastern Taiwan on Thursday afternoon, the Central Weather Adm...
Spain flood death toll soars to 158, 'dozens' missing
Oct 31, 2024 (AFP)
An exceptionally powerful Mediterranean storm from Tuesday unleashed heavy rains and torrents of mud-filled water that swept away people and wrecked homes, with...
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