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Nepal flood waters smash through village
Aug 16, 2024 (AFP)
No deaths were reported but the scale of the brown and muddy flood waters surging through the village of Thame were shocking, videos posted on social media by t...
Japan cancels flights and trains as Typhoon Ampil approaches
Aug 15, 2024 (AFP)
Days after Tropical Storm Maria dumped record rains, Typhoon Ampil was set late Thursday to skirt the Tokyo region -- home to almost 40 million people -- and th...
Magnitude 5.4 quake shakes northeastern Taiwan: USGS
Aug 15, 2024 (AFP)
Taiwan's Central Weather Administration (CWA) put the magnitude of the quake, which hit just after 5 pm (0900 GMT), at 5.7. According to the USGS, it hit at a s...
Japan lifts 'megaquake' warning, tells people to 'go back to normal'
Aug 15, 2024 (AFP)
The week-old alert that such a catastrophe might hit the archipelago of 125 million people prompted thousands to cancel holidays and stock up on essentials, emp...
Japan lifts 'megaquake' warning
Aug 15, 2024 (AFP)
The alert that such a catastrophe might hit the archipelago of 125 million people prompted thousands of Japanese to cancel holidays and stock up on essentials, ...
Japan set to lift 'megaquake' alert; as another typhoon cancels flights and trains
Aug 15, 2024 (AFP)
The alert that such a catastrophe might hit the archipelago of 125 million people prompted thousands of Japanese to cancel holidays and stock up on essentials, ...
Floods kill 54 in northern Chad: governor
Aug 15, 2024 (AFP)
The flooding in the region following rainfall from last Friday to Wednesday had also swept away thousands of shops and vehicles, said Mahamat Tochi Chidi, gover...
Ernesto now a hurricane after drenching Puerto Rico; Typhoon Ampil approaches Japan
Aug 14, 2024 (AFP)
The storm brushed past the Caribbean island overnight, and was expected to dump up to 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain in some places, the US National Hurrica...
Hurricane watch issued as Ernesto approaches Puerto Rico
Aug 13, 2024 (AFP)
The storm was moving west toward the US island with maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour (85 kilometers per hour), according to the National Hurricane C...
Death toll mounting from South Asia's devastating monsoon
Aug 13, 2024 (AFP)
Weather-related disasters are common during the monsoon season from June to September, but experts say climate change is increasing their frequency and severity...
Thousands cancel trips in Japan after megaquake alert
Aug 13, 2024 (AFP)
The weather agency said last week a huge earthquake was more likely in the aftermath of a magnitude 7.1 jolt in the south on Thursday, which left at least 15 pe...
Tropical Storm Maria hits Japan with record rain
Aug 12, 2024 (AFP)
Maria came ashore around 8:30 am (2330 GMT Sunday) near Ofunato city in Iwate prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. It was initially categorised as ...
Deadly floods in war-torn Sudan displace thousands
Aug 12, 2024 (AFP)
"My father died in the floods," Hussein said in Kassala, a state on the border with Eritrea. Sudan has experienced an intense rainy season since last month, wit...
Moderate quake felt in Syria and Lebanon: official media
Aug 12, 2024 (AFP)
AFP journalists in Beirut and Damascus also said they felt the tremor. "An earthquake of 5.5 on the Richter scale struck east of Hama city at 11:56 pm," Syria's...
Seismic Signals Reveal Week-Long Wave Oscillations in Greenland Fjord After 2023 Megatsunami
Aug 10, 2024 (SPX)
A report in The Seismic Record reveals that the event triggered a week-long oscillating wave, or seiche, in Dickson Fjord. Angela Carrillo-Ponce of the GFZ Germ...
Police search for Quebec man swept away in Debby downpour
Aug 10, 2024 (AFP)
Provincial police told AFP a man in his 80s was swept into the Batiscan River north of Montreal at about 11:30 pm on Friday, amid the downpour. Police have depl...
Japan's 'megaquake' warning explained
Aug 09, 2024 (AFP)
The Japan Meteorological Association (JMA) warning is the first issued under new rules drawn up after a 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster killed aro...
Niger ups floods death toll to 94
Aug 09, 2024 (AFP)
A UN toll on July 15 said there were 53 dead in the floods which it said had been worsened by the effects of climate change. The update counted 137,156 people a...
Strong quake, small tsunamis hit southern Japan with minor damage
Aug 08, 2024 (AFP)
The quake hit at 4:42 pm (0742 GMT) off Kyushu at a depth of 25 kilometres (16 miles), the United States Geological Survey said. The USGS had initially reported...
Tropical Storm Debby makes second US landfall in days
Aug 08, 2024 (AFP)
Debby made landfall near Bulls Bay South Carolina, about 20 miles (35 kilometres) northeast of Charleston, the NHC said in an morning advisory, warning of major...
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