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News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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Death toll from Indonesia floods, landslides rises to 21
Mar 10, 2024 (AFP)
Torrential rains on Thursday triggered the disaster in Pesisir Selatan regency in the West Sumatra province, with more than 75,000 people forced to evacuate. "A...
Can Volcanic Super Eruptions Lead to Major Cooling? Study Suggests No
Mar 04, 2024 (SPX)
When it comes to the most powerful volcanoes, researchers have long speculated how post-eruption global cooling - sometimes called volcanic winter - could poten...
More than 30 killed in heavy rain in Pakistan
Mar 03, 2024 (AFP)
Widespread heavy rain since Thursday has caused severe disruption in some areas of the country, including the closure of all schools in Balochistan province unt...
Strong quake hits remote Macquarie Island region, no tsunami threat
Mar 03, 2024 (AFP)
The epicentre of the quake, which hit at 1616 GMT, was underwater off the southern coast of Macquarie Island, roughly 1500 kilometres (932 miles) south-southwes...
New Zealand volcano disaster victims win damages
Mar 01, 2024 (AFP)
The sum must be paid by five companies that transported 47 tourists to the volcanic island on December 9, 2019, the day it erupted. Many of the 25 survivors suf...
New Zealand volcano disaster victims awarded $6m damages
Mar 01, 2024 (AFP)
The sum must be paid by five companies that transported 47 tourists to the volcanic island in December 2019, the day it erupted. Many of the 25 survivors suffer...
Mauritius grounds flights as it braces for tropical storm
Feb 22, 2024 (AFP)
Storm Eleanor was about 200 kilometres (125 miles) northeast of the nation at 4:00 am (0000 GMT) and was moving at a speed of 20 kilometres an hour, the weather...
Groundwater upsurge floods homes in Libyan coastal town
Feb 15, 2024 (AFP)
Stagnant water and squishy mud have flooded houses, streets and palm groves around the northwestern town of Zliten, spreading a foul smell and creating breeding...
Brazil quake city families seek justice in Dutch court
Feb 15, 2024 (AFP)
Families from Maceio flew to the Netherlands to hear the case against Brazilian petrochemical giant Braskem, whose European operations are based in Rotterdam. O...
Study reveals poleward shift in tropical cyclone genesis due to changing climate
Feb 12, 2024 (SPX)
Tropical cyclones, known for their devastating impact through gales, heavy rainfall, and storm surges, have long been a source of concern. Their potential to in...
In a warming world, climate scientists consider category 6 hurricanes
Feb 12, 2024 (SPX)
But as increasing ocean temperatures contribute to ever more intense and destructive hurricanes, climate scientists Michael Wehner of Lawrence Berkeley National...
Volcanic eruption ends in Iceland but repairs continue
Feb 10, 2024 (AFP)
The water supply was briefly restored Friday, but lava spewing from a volcanic fissure on Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula later broke a bypass pipe again cutting ...
Strong earthquake hits Hawaii, no tsunami: US seismologists
Feb 09, 2024 (AFP)
The 5.7-magnitude quake struck near Pahala on the main island of Hawaii, with its epicenter located around 37 kilometers (23 miles) below the Earth's surface, t...
Icelanders race to repair damage after volcano damage
Feb 09, 2024 (AFP)
Repairs on the network -- which is also a source of heating -- went on overnight in temperatures as low as minus 14 degrees Celsius (6.8 degrees Fahrenheit), ut...
Lava erupts for third time on volcano-hit Iceland peninsula
Feb 08, 2024 (AFP)
Video images of the crack in the Earth's surface, stretching an estimated three kilometres (two miles), showed the fissure illuminating a plume of smoke rising ...
How an unprecedented magma river surged beneath an Iceland town
Feb 08, 2024 (AFP)
Authorities in Iceland declared a state of emergency on Thursday as lava burst a key water pipe during the third volcanic fissure to hit the western Reykjanes p...
Icelandic volcano erupts for third time since December
Feb 08, 2024 (AFP)
Live video images showed glowing lava oozing out of a fissure illuminating a plume of smoke rising up under the night sky. "At 5:30 this morning an intense seis...
'Feels like yesterday': Turkey grieves on first quake anniversary
Feb 06, 2024 (AFP)
At 4:17 am, the moment the first 7.8-magnitude quake set off a calamity that claimed more than 53,000 lives in Turkey and nearly 6,000 in Syria, the mourners ga...
New tool predicts flood risk from hurricanes in a warming climate
Feb 05, 2024 (SPX)
When hurricanes make landfall, strong winds whip up salty ocean waters that generate storm surge in coastal regions. As the storms move over land, torrential ra...
Turkey commemorates its worst disaster of modern times
Feb 03, 2024 (AFP)
Grieving Turks are still coming to terms with how a 7.8-magnitude tremor could upturn the lives of millions of people in a matter of seconds while they were sti...
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