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Volcano erupts in Guatemala, forcing airport closure
Dec 11, 2022 (AFP)
The volcano named Fuego -- Spanish for fire -- rumbled into activity overnight Saturday into Sunday, with molten rock oozing down its slopes and ash belching tw...
Lascar volcano in Chile stirs, sending plume skyward
Dec 10, 2022 (AFP)
Chile's National Geology and Mining Service reported that at 12:36 am (15:36 GMT) the Lascar volcano stirred. The volcano sent "an eruptive column" comprising v...
Let the lava flow! Iceland's volcano show is a hit
Dec 09, 2022 (AFP)
The flow, contained on both sides by black sand, lights up the room like a sunrise. This is the Lava Show, Iceland's latest tourist attraction, that uses reheat...
5.8-magnitude earthquake jolts Indonesia's Java island
Dec 08, 2022 (AFP)
The quake struck at 07:50 am local time (0050 GMT) around 15 kilometres from the town of Cianjur, epicentre of November's devastating tremor, the United States ...
Hawaii deploys National Guard in volcano eruption response
Dec 06, 2022 (AFP)
Twenty National Guard members were deployed "to assist Hawaii County with traffic control and other roles in the Mauna Loa eruption," the Pacific island state's...
Chile on alert as active volcano rumbles, spits fire
Dec 05, 2022 (AFP)
Since October, the 2,847-meter (9,300-foot)-high Villarrica has been the site of gas explosions and seismic events, with pillars of fire up to 220 meters high s...
Flash flood kills 14 at Johannesburg church ritual
Dec 04, 2022 (AFP)
A group of 33 worshippers had joined church rituals on the banks of the Jukskei river when the flooding struck on Saturday, said Robert Mulaudzi, spokesman for ...
Indonesia's Mount Semeru erupts, forcing thousands to flee
Dec 04, 2022 (AFP)
The burst from the highest mountain on Indonesia's main island of Java, around 800 kilometres (500 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, prompted authorities...
Hawaii volcano sprays fountains of lava in spectacular eruption
Dec 02, 2022 (AFP)
Two fissures on Mauna Loa were venting huge volumes of viscous rock and gases from deep within the Earth, in a thunderous display of the power of nature. Vulcan...
Death Valley's Ubehebe Crater reveals volcanic hazard areas are underestimated
Dec 02, 2022 (SPX)
These so-called phreatomagmatic eruptions do not just occur at large, mountainous volcanoes like Mount Vesuvius. They can also occur in distributed volcanic fie...
Hawaii volcano shoots lava fountains 200 feet high: USGS
Nov 29, 2022 (AFP)
Four fissures have now opened up on the mammoth mountain, which burst into life on Sunday for the first time in almost 40 years. Vast clouds of steam and smoke ...
World's largest volcano erupts in Hawaii
Nov 28, 2022 (AFP)
Rivers of molten rock could be seen high up on the volcano, venting huge clouds of steam and smoke at the summit on Big Island, and sparking warnings the situat...
Death toll from Indonesia quake rises to 321, official says
Nov 27, 2022 (AFP)
The shallow 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit the West Java town of Cianjur on Monday, where most of the victims were killed as buildings collapsed or landslides wer...
Indonesian girl, 7, found dead after day-long quake rescue effort
Nov 25, 2022 (AFP)
Emergency workers found the body of Ashika Nur Fauziah, also known as Cika, under rubble in the worst-hit district of Cugenang, the epicentre of the quake that ...
At least 50 hurt after magnitude-6.1 quake in Turkey
Nov 23, 2022 (AFP)
The shallow tremor struck about 170 kilometres (105 miles) east of Istanbul, the country's largest city, where it was strongly felt. National authorities said t...
Using satellites for faster flood information
Nov 23, 2022 (SPX)
Professor Noam Levin from UQ's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences said the project combined images from optical satellites with information from imaging...
Hunt for buried survivors after Indonesia quake kills 162
Nov 22, 2022 (AFP)
As bodybags emerged from crumpled buildings in Indonesia's most populous province, rescue efforts turned to any survivors still under debris in areas made hard ...
Hunt for buried survivors after Indonesia quake kills 252
Nov 22, 2022 (AFP)
As body bags emerged from crumpled buildings in Indonesia's most populous province, West Java, rescue efforts turned to any survivors still under debris in area...
Sixteen dead in DR Congo landslips
Nov 22, 2022 (AFP)
The accident happened overnight Monday in Kamituga in South Kivu province, the acting mayor there, Alexandre Ngandu, told AFP. "The toll is 16 dead... men, wome...
Strong quake rattles Solomon Islands
Nov 22, 2022 (AFP)
There were no reports of serious injuries or major structural damage. "This was a big one," Joy Nisha, a receptionist with the Heritage Park Hotel in the capita...
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