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Tonga volcano unleashed fastest ever undersea flows: study
Sep 07, 2023 (AFP)
The submerged Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Volcano sent rocks, ash and gas racing across the seafloor at 122 kilometres (76 miles) per hour in January last year, f...
Greece launches rescue effort in flooded villages
Sep 07, 2023 (AFP)
Fierce storms battered Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria earlier this week, following a period of extreme heat and devastating wildfires. A "large-scale" operation wa...
Rains kill 11 in Mediterranean, east Europe
Sep 06, 2023 (AFP)
High waters in northwestern Turkey, including Istanbul, turned streets into rushing rivers, while floods struck Greece as it recovers from massive wildfires. "I...
Torrential rains kill 5 in Turkey, 3 in Bulgaria and 2 in Greece
Sep 06, 2023 (AFP)
The nighttime storm partially flooded an Istanbul subway station and forced the evacuation of dozens of people from a city library, media reports said. Televisi...
At least 36 dead in Brazil cyclone, many still stranded
Sep 06, 2023 (AFP)
With the flood waters forcing some residents to climb onto their roofs, a major emergency operation was underway, with one official saying more than 1,000 peopl...
Charges over deadly New Zealand volcanic eruption dismissed
Sep 05, 2023 (AFP)
Around 50 people were on White Island -- also known as Whakaari -- in December 2019 when a deadly column of burning ash and steam blasted from a volcanic vent. ...
Storm Haikui heads to China after double landfall in Taiwan
Sep 04, 2023 (AFP)
Haikui had initially appeared to depart the island but made a second landfall early Monday in southwest Kaohsiung before moving out into the Taiwan Strait. Ther...
Three dead, three missing as torrential rains lash Spain
Sep 04, 2023 (AFP)
The weekend storm affected almost the whole country, with the heaviest rains recorded on Sunday in the coastal provinces of Cadiz, Tarragona and Castello, accor...
Freak flooding in Algeria kills eight
Sep 03, 2023 (AFP)
It said the eight had been swept away by floodwaters at Tlemcen and El Bayadh on Saturday. The bodies of two women and two men, aged between 22 and 73, were rec...
1000s evacuated as Typhoon Haikui heads for Taiwan; Saola weakens in southern China
Sep 03, 2023 (AFP)
Haikui -- which had already brought heavy rains by Sunday morning -- is expected to make landfall by 5:00 pm (0900 GMT) in Taitung, a mountainous county in less...
Super Typhoon Saola sweeps towards southern China cities
Sep 01, 2023 (AFP)
Hundreds of flights were cancelled across the region, the start of the school year was delayed in Hong Kong, and the rain-drenched finance hub's streets were de...
Super Typhoon Saola hurtles towards southern China, Hong Kong
Aug 31, 2023 (AFP)
Saola's wind speeds topped 200 kilometres (125 miles) per hour by 6 pm (1000 GMT) on Thursday, with the storm around 370 kilometres southeast of the Chinese fin...
Storm Idalia lashes Georgia, Carolinas after slamming Florida
Aug 31, 2023 (AFP)
After roaring across the Sunshine State, Idalia barreled into neighboring Georgia and weakened to a tropical storm that nevertheless was drenching the region wi...
'It hurts my heart': Japan's Kanto massacre, 100 years on
Aug 31, 2023 (AFP)
Over several days of horror after the quake of September 1, 1923, mobs armed with swords, iron bars and bamboo sticks went on a killing spree of Koreans living ...
Drenched but alive, Floridians survey hurricane damage
Aug 31, 2023 (AFP)
Idalia roared into the Sunshine State as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday morning, flooding homes, felling trees and downing power lines before barreling across ...
5.4-magnitude quake shakes Indonesian island
Aug 31, 2023 (AFP)
The quake struck at a depth of around 54.6 kilometres on the northwest of Timor island near the city of Kupang at around 6:30 pm local time (1030 GMT), accordin...
Toll from heavy rains in Tajikistan rises to 21
Aug 30, 2023 (AFP)
The deaths were reported in three towns not far from the capital Dushanbe, after heavy rains on Sunday and Monday triggered flooding, landslides and mudflows. A...
Hurricane Idalia intensifies as nears Florida
Aug 30, 2023 (AFP)
Authorities in the southern US state described Idalia and its potentially deadly storm surge as a once-in-a-lifetime event for Florida's northwest coast, as the...
Floods drown hope in Pakistan's impoverished Punjab villages
Aug 30, 2023 (AFP)
They retreated to the roof to escape the rising water, before fleeing for their lives by boat. "We didn't bring any of our belongings with us, everything we own...
Japan's century of efforts to tame earthquakes
Aug 30, 2023 (AFP)
A century after Tokyo was destroyed in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Japanese capital today bears no resemblance to the city levelled by that 7.9 trem...
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