SHAKE AND BLOW

News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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Libya orders 8 officials arrested after flood disaster
Sep 25, 2023 (AFP)
The flash flood, which witnesses likened to a tsunami, broke through two ageing dams on September 10 after a hurricane-strength storm lashed the area around Der...
Heaviest rains in century bring floods to Caspian Sea coast
Sep 19, 2023 (AFP)
The rains have battered the cities of Astara and Talesh, on the Caspian Sea coast near the border with Azerbaijan since Sunday, the reports said. "Heavy rains ....
'The earth shook': survivors recount Libya flood horror
Sep 18, 2023 (AFP)
"I took nothing but my glasses and phone and fled as the waters shook the iron doors like an earthquake," recounted the 73-year-old survivor of the deadly disas...
Earthquake hits central Italy but no immediate damage
Sep 18, 2023 (AFP)
Schools were closed in some areas as a precaution and trains were delayed pending checks on the railway lines. Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volc...
Aid arrives in flood-hit Libya but hopes fade for survivors
Sep 16, 2023 (AFP)
Sunday's disaster submerged the port city of Derna, washing thousands of people and homes out to sea after two dams burst under the pressure of torrential rains...
Libya's flood-ravaged Derna in grisly hunt for thousands still missing
Sep 15, 2023 (AFP)
The enormous surge of water burst two upstream dams late Sunday and reduced Derna to an apocalyptic wasteland where entire city blocks and untold numbers of peo...
Quake exposed risk in Morocco villages' isolation
Sep 15, 2023 (AFP)
Some of the settlements perched in the High Atlas are still not accessible by road nearly a week after the nation's deadliest quake in generations, though the a...
Study reveals human destruction of global floodplains
Sep 15, 2023 (SPX)
Adnan Rajib, a UT Arlington assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, was the lead author on the published study, "Human Alterations of the Gl...
Last-ditch hunt for Morocco quake survivors
Sep 13, 2023 (AFP)
Vehicles packed with supplies were inching up winding mountain roads to deliver desperately needed food and tents to survivors of the nation's deadliest quake i...
Fears mount of surging death toll in Libya flood disaster
Sep 13, 2023 (AFP)
Relief missions gathered pace with Turkey, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates among the first nations to rush aid to the war-scarred country, and the UN pledgin...
Derna counts the cost of Libya flood disaster
Sep 13, 2023 (AFP)
Two dams burst there on Sunday afternoon after the storm hit, releasing a surge of water that tore through the city, sweeping away buildings and the people insi...
Race against time to find survivors 4 days after Morocco quake
Sep 12, 2023 (AFP)
Search-and-rescue teams from the kingdom and from abroad kept digging through the rubble of broken mud-brick homes, hoping for signs of life in a race against t...
More charges dropped over New Zealand's deadly White Island blast
Sep 12, 2023 (AFP)
Around 50 people were visiting White Island, also known as Whakaari, in December 2019 when a deadly column of burning ash and steam blasted from a volcanic vent...
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupts again
Sep 11, 2023 (AFP)
Kilauea began erupting at around 3:15 pm local time (0115 GMT Monday), the US Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. "The eruption was preceded ...
Toll from Greece floods rises to 15 dead
Sep 10, 2023 (AFP)
The body of a 42-year-old man was recovered at sea in the Pelion region by the coastguard. Earlier in the day, three bodies, including a 65-year-old man and his...
Morocco mourns quake victims as death toll passes 2,000
Sep 10, 2023 (AFP)
The strongest-ever quake to hit the country has killed at least 2,012 people and injured over 2,059, many of them critically, according to the latest official f...
Amid devastation and mud, Brazil buries victims of cyclone
Sep 10, 2023 (AFP)
In the cemetery of Mucum, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, mourners wept and hugged one another as loved ones were buried. Pallbearers carried caskets through...
Rescues underway in Greek towns cut off by floods
Sep 09, 2023 (AFP)
"More than 2,850 people have been rescued since the beginning of the bad weather," fire department spokesman Yannis Artopios told broadcaster Mega on Saturday. ...
Hong Kong and Shenzhen his by heaviest rainfall in 140 years
Sep 08, 2023 (AFP)
Just across the border, authorities in China's tech hub Shenzhen recorded the heaviest rains since records began in 1952. Climate change has increased the inten...
Cyclone-hit Brazil braces for new storm
Sep 08, 2023 (AFP)
Twenty-five people remain missing after an extratropical cyclone this week hit the state of Rio Grande do Sul, which is also the target of the new weather syste...
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