SHAKE AND BLOW

News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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'Flash drought' frequency increasing due to climate change: study
Apr 13, 2023 (AFP)
Though droughts are generally thought of as long-term phenomena, some can occur quite suddenly, in a matter of weeks, when the conditions are right. Global warm...
Earthquake strikes off Canada's west coast
Apr 13, 2023 (AFP)
The epicenter of the quake was just five miles (eight kilometers) deep in waters more than 140 miles southwest of Port McNeil, on Vancouver Island in the wester...
Evacuations underway as tropical cyclone nears Australia
Apr 13, 2023 (AFP)
Tropical Cyclone Ilsa gathered strength over the Indian Ocean, with one of the world's major iron ore shipping hubs -- Port Hedland -- cleared of vessels in pre...
The 2022 Durban floods were the most catastrophic yet recorded in KwaZulu-Natal
Apr 12, 2023 (SPX)
This is according to a new study by researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the University of Brighton, UK, publ...
Quake-prone Bucharest trembles over rickety buildings
Apr 12, 2023 (AFP)
Images of the devastation in Turkey and Syria have revived old fears in the EU's most earthquake-prone capital, which experts say remains completely unprepared ...
Government leak: Water sinks Cyprus online services
Apr 11, 2023 (AFP)
The services have been down since Monday afternoon when water leaked into the server room at the Finance Ministry in the European Union member. An inquiry has b...
Two found dead after flooding in Israel
Apr 11, 2023 (AFP)
Heavy rains and high winds since Monday have caused rivers to flood near two key north-south highways, while several roads are blocked near the Red Sea resort o...
Russian volcano spews ash across Kamchatka Peninsula
Apr 11, 2023 (AFP)
The Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT), which monitors eruptions in the region, issued an aviation code red after the eruption, reporting that th...
Russian volcano spews ash across Kamchatka peninsula
Apr 11, 2023 (AFP)
Dramatic videos published by officials showed a huge wall of ash rising above a snowy forest. Volcanologists issued a red code warning for flights and Russia's ...
Low-cost camera could help forecast volcano eruptions affecting millions
Apr 10, 2023 (SPX)
To get better long-term monitoring data, an international team of researchers has developed an SO2 camera to continually measure emission rates from volcanoes. ...
As Colombian volcano rumbles to life, villagers resist evacuation
Apr 08, 2023 (AFP)
Yet at the foot of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in the Colombian Andes, thousands of villagers are staying put to tend to their crops and pack animals, despite a...
Antakya's quake victims doubt Erdogan's rebuilding pledge
Apr 06, 2023 (AFP)
Half a dozen growling excavators were levelling what was left of the 60-year-old apartment complex in the ancient Syria-border city of Antakya. Hundreds more sw...
In flood-hit South Sudan, women harness power of plants
Apr 05, 2023 (AFP)
But her family couldn't afford cooking gas or charcoal, so the mother of seven steeled her nerves and hoped for the best, scarcely imagining that a despised wee...
Earthquake of 6.3 magnitude hits off Pacific coast of Panama: USGS
Apr 04, 2023 (AFP)
The quake was relatively shallow, at a depth of 12 kilometers (seven miles), the US agency said. Panama's civil protection agency Sinaproc said the quake had a ...
Residents near Colombian volcano evacuated
Apr 04, 2023 (AFP)
A 1985 eruption by the volcano that killed 25,000 people is considered the worst natural disaster in Colombian history and one of the deadliest eruptions of the...
Papua New Guinea quake toll rises to seven
Apr 04, 2023 (AFP)
The 7.0 magnitude temblor hit a jungle-clad area near the Sepik River in the early hours of Monday. The Provincial Disaster Office said a total of seven people ...
Three dead as powerful earthquake strikes PNG
Apr 03, 2023 (AFP)
The country's National Disaster Centre said dozens of homes were also affected as emergency crews continued to assess the damage across difficult terrain. The q...
7.0-magnitude quake hits western Papua New Guinea: USGS
Apr 03, 2023 (AFP)
The quake struck at a depth of 62 kilometres (38 miles) near the Chambri Lake system in the sparsely populated region of East Sepik Province, the US Geological ...
Volcano that wiped out Colombian town active again
Mar 31, 2023 (AFP)
The 1985 eruption was considered the worst natural disasters in Colombian history and one of the deadliest volcanic eruptions of the 20th century. There has rec...
Malawi's cyclone toll to reach 1,200 as hopes fade
Mar 30, 2023 (AFP)
Freddy dumped six months' worth of rainfall on southern Malawi in six days earlier this month, triggering floods and mudslides that swept away homes, roads and ...
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