SHAKE AND BLOW

News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

6,290 articles

'Like a shotgun': Tongan eruption is largest ever recorded
Nov 21, 2022 (AFP)
The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted underwater with a force equivalent to hundreds of atomic bombs, unleashing a 15-metre (50-foot) tsunami which demo...
Deadly floods, landslides in eastern DR Congo
Nov 19, 2022 (AFP)
At least 13 people were killed Friday at an illegal gold mine at Rubaya, in the North Kivu province territory of Masisi. "The victims were 'diggers' who were in...
Floods sweep future from Pakistan schoolchildren
Nov 16, 2022 (AFP)
After record monsoon rain flooded her classroom in the southeastern town of Chandan Mori, this is the route Afshan and her siblings now traverse to a tent where...
Climate change fuelled rains behind deadly Nigeria floods: study
Nov 16, 2022 (AFP)
The floods mainly struck Nigeria but also Niger, Chad and neighbouring countries, displacing over 1.4 million people and devastating homes and farmland in a reg...
Arctic Cyclones to intensify as climate warms, NASA study predicts
Nov 16, 2022 (SPX)
In findings published on Nov. 9, NASA scientists project spring Arctic cyclones will intensify by the end of this century because of sea ice loss and rapidly wa...
Australians rescued from roofs after flash floods
Nov 14, 2022 (AFP)
A weekend downpour over much of the already-sodden eastern state of New South Wales sent waters rising overnight, isolating some towns and communities. Australi...
Magma floods erupt from deeper sources than earlier believed
Nov 11, 2022 (SPX)
A new study by researchers from the University of Helsinki and Aarhus University challenges this widely held view. "The idea that flood basalt eruptions general...
Tsunami warning lifted after major quake near Tonga
Nov 11, 2022 (AFP)
The USGS said the quake hit 10 kilometres (six miles) deep, about 200 kilometres southeast of Neiafu, a town in the northeast of the Pacific archipelago nation,...
Six killed in Nepal earthquake
Nov 09, 2022 (AFP)
The epicentre was near the Nepalese municipality of Dipayal, 340 kilometres (210 miles) west of Kathmandu at a depth of 15 km at around 2:00 am (2030 GMT), acco...
Floods in Central Africa leave fishermen stranded
Nov 09, 2022 (AFP)
The tributary of the mighty Congo often floods during the rainy season, but this year the water levels have been catastrophic for the nation at the heart of the...
6.0 magnitude earthquake shakes El Salvador: government
Nov 04, 2022 (AFP)
The tremor was registered at 10:26 pm local time (0426 GMT Friday) and its epicenter was located 37km off the country's southern coast, near the town of Mizata ...
Scientists identify the highest-ever recorded volcanic plume
Nov 04, 2022 (SPX)
On 15 January 2022, Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha?apai, a submarine volcano in the Tongan archipelago in the southern Pacific Ocean, violently erupted. The explosion was...
A home for the dead: The quest for burials in flood-stricken Chad
Nov 03, 2022 (AFP)
Now, in a further cruel twist, the floods that have struck Chad, one of the world's poorest countries, are hampering people from burying the dead. Many cemeteri...
Hurricane Lisa menaces Central America
Nov 02, 2022 (AFP)
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) has issued a hurricane warning for Honduras' Bay Islands, the coast of Belize and Mexico's Yucatan area stretching from C...
Floods wash away salt industry and tourism at Senegal's 'Pink Lake'
Nov 02, 2022 (AFP)
"This is the last of what we were able to save as the waters rose," Ndiour, the head of an association of artisanal salt collectors, says of the 200-tonne pile....
Violent supershear earthquakes are more common than previously thought
Nov 01, 2022 (SPX)
That percentage is more than double what scientists expected; until now less than 6% of strike-slip earthquakes had been identified as supershear. Strike-slip e...
Philippines storm death toll jumps to 98
Oct 31, 2022 (AFP)
Just over half of the fatalities were from a series of flash floods and landslides unleashed by Tropical Storm Nalgae, which destroyed villages on the southern ...
Rescuers search for bodies as Philippines storm death toll hits 98
Oct 31, 2022 (AFP)
Just over half of the fatalities were from a series of flash floods and landslides unleashed by Tropical Storm Nalgae, which destroyed villages on the southern ...
Tropical storm batters Philippines capital before exit
Oct 30, 2022 (AFP)
Several neighbourhoods in towns and cities just outside Manila remained under water after the storm raked across the main island of Luzon overnight, cutting pow...
US commits another $30 mln for Pakistan flood relief
Oct 27, 2022 (AFP)
The US Agency for International Development said the new aid would include emergency food and nutrition, screening for malnutrition, shelter assistance and kits...
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.