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7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Chile: USGS
Jul 19, 2024 (AFP)
The epicenter of the tremor was located 164 miles (265 kilometers) east of the coastal city of Antofagasta, at a depth of 78.5 miles (126 kilometers). "So far t...
Earthquakes, not just volcanic ash, a Pompeii killer: research
Jul 18, 2024 (AFP)
Scholars have debated for decades whether seismic activity occurred during the eruption of Vesuvius in southern Italy nearly 2,000 years ago, and not just befor...
Niger floods toll increases, 53 dead, 18,000 affected: UN
Jul 17, 2024 (AFP)
An earlier interior ministry toll published on June 20 recorded 21 deaths and nearly 6,000 people affected nationwide. As of July 15, the floods had claimed 53 ...
Heavy rains kill at least 35 in eastern Afghanistan: official
Jul 15, 2024 (AFP)
"On Monday evening, stormy rains killed 35 people and injured 230 others in Jalalabad and certain districts of Nangarhar" province, Quraishi Badloon, head of th...
Four dead in record torrential rains in South Korea
Jul 10, 2024 (AFP)
"Three regions saw rainfall at the highest level, the probability of which is seen about every 200 years," an official from South Korea's meteorological agency ...
Ecuador volcano rumbles, spews ash cloud
Jul 10, 2024 (AFP)
The Sangay volcano, some 195 kilometers (120 miles) from the capital Quito, has been in a state of near-constant, mainly low-level activity since 1628, accordin...
Floods trap hundreds in rural Tibet; Floods swamp India national park
Jul 10, 2024 (AFP)
At least 472 people, including local residents and tourists from outside the area, were trapped outside Chentang Township in the Shigatse area, state broadcaste...
Eight killed after Beryl sweeps across US
Jul 09, 2024 (AFP)
In the aftermath, as millions in the Houston area remained without power and were sweating under a heat advisory, President Joe Biden said sweltering temperatur...
Floods tear through delta in war-torn Sudan's southeast; Liberia appeals for flood help
Jul 09, 2024 (AFP)
In Aroma, a town some 60 kilometres (37 miles) north of the major city of Kassala, residents were "shocked this morning by the sudden water" after the collapse ...
Beryl downgraded after slamming Texas with deadly rains, wind
Jul 09, 2024 (AFP)
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Beryl made landfall Monday morning near the Gulf Coast town of Matagorda, and was losing strength as it moved inland...
Hurricane Beryl hammers Texas coast with flooding, winds
Jul 08, 2024 (AFP)
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Beryl hit the town of Matagorda as a Category 1 hurricane, and has since been downgraded to a tropical storm in the ...
Texas hunkers down as storm Beryl approaches
Jul 08, 2024 (AFP)
The US National Hurricane Center said in its latest update that winds were reaching 70 miles (110 kilometers) per hour as the tropical storm approached and was ...
Texas hunkers down as Hurricane Beryl approaches
Jul 08, 2024 (AFP)
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its latest update that winds were reaching 80 miles (130 kilometers) per hour as Beryl approached the Texas coast...
Eight dead, two million affected by Bangladesh floods
Jul 06, 2024 (AFP)
The South Asian nation of 170 million people, crisscrossed by hundreds of rivers, has seen more frequent floods in recent decades. Climate change has made rainf...
Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Mexico
Jul 05, 2024 (AFP)
The National Hurricane Center said the storm was packing maximum sustained winds of 100 mph (160 kph) making it a Category 2 hurricane, weaker than earlier in t...
Flights suspended in Sicily's Catania as volcano erupts
Jul 05, 2024 (AFP)
"The runway at Catania Airport is unusable due to volcanic ash fall: both arrivals and departures are suspended," the company managing the airport said in a sta...
Beryl foreshadows future hurricanes, says UN weather agency
Jul 05, 2024 (AFP)
The WMO, the United Nations' weather and climate agency, said the record-breaking tropical cyclone intensified rapidly, picking up energy over a warmer Atlantic...
Flights slowly resume at Sicily's Catania airport as volcano erupts
Jul 05, 2024 (AFP)
The airport said it had reopened for departures on Friday afternoon after the runway was cleared, writing on X that "arrivals are temporarily limited to two per...
Floods kill nine in India and Bangladesh, millions affected
Jul 04, 2024 (AFP)
Monsoon rains cause widespread destruction every year, but experts say climate change is shifting weather patterns and increasing the number of extreme events. ...
25 people drown in Sudan fleeing fighting: activists' committee
Jul 04, 2024 (AFP)
"Around 25 citizens, most of them women and children, have died in a boat sinking" while crossing the Blue Nile River in the southeastern state of Sennar, the l...
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