SHAKE AND BLOW

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The silent build-up to a super-eruption
Nov 02, 2021 (SPX)
To answer these questions, an international team of geologists led from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, and Peking University, China, developed a...
5.9 magnitude quake strikes off Indonesia's Sumatra: USGS
Nov 01, 2021 (AFP)
The offshore quake hit at a shallow depth of six kilometres (3.7 miles), about 255 kilometres south of the town of Sinabang. Shallow quakes tend to do more dama...
US East Coast hit by flooding
Oct 29, 2021 (AFP)
The area stretching from the US capital north to Baltimore is facing "the biggest tidal flood events of the past 10-20 years," the National Weather Service said...
Sicily braces for second cyclone this week
Oct 28, 2021 (AFP)
The Mediterranean cyclone known as a "medicane" was set to reach Sicily's eastern coast and the tip of mainland Calabria between Thursday evening and Friday mor...
'Nowhere is safe': Philippine typhoon victims live in fear
Oct 26, 2021 (AFP)
As global warming brings increasingly extreme weather, she now fears "nowhere is safe". Hundreds of families from poor villages around Mayon volcano in Albay pr...
3 dead, 3 missing after avalanche on Ecuador volcano
Oct 25, 2021 (AFP)
The avalanche struck a group of 16 mountaineers while at an altitude of 6,100 meters (20,000 feet) on the dormant Chimborazo volcano, according to responders. "...
Rick, now a tropical storm, lashes western Mexico
Oct 25, 2021 (AFP)
Rick made landfall on the Pacific coast as a Category Two hurricane with maximum winds of 105 miles (around 170 kilometers) per hour, the US National Hurricane ...
Hurricane Rick gains strength as it advances on Mexico
Oct 24, 2021 (AFP)
At 0000 GMT on Saturday, Rick was located 265 km (165 miles) from Zihuatanejo and 305 km from Acapulco, both towns in the state of Guerrero in southern Mexico, ...
Who let the dogs out? Mystery disappearance grips Spain volcano isle
Oct 22, 2021 (AFP)
Then suddenly they disappeared, with only a mysterious note left at the scene saying that the hounds were safe. Footage of the dogs stranded inside two empty wa...
Nearly 200 perish in India, Nepal rains
Oct 21, 2021 (AFP)
Experts say that they were victims of the ever-more unpredictable and extreme weather that has hit South Asia in recent years caused by climate change and exace...
Japan's Mount Aso volcano erupts
Oct 20, 2021 (AFP)
No injuries were immediately reported after the late-morning eruption in southwest Japan, which sent rocks flying in a dramatic blast captured by nearby CCTV ca...
Floods, landslides kill 116 in India and Nepal
Oct 20, 2021 (AFP)
Experts say that they were victims of ever-more unpredictable and extreme weather across South Asia in recent years caused by climate change and exacerbated by ...
People seek to rebuild lives after DR Congo volcano eruption
Oct 18, 2021 (AFP)
sixty-year-old Edmond's family plot in Buhene, a working-class village to the north of the city of Goma, once included two houses. When the family returned to t...
Volcanic ash halts flights on Spanish island
Oct 17, 2021 (AFP)
Airlines scrapped all 38 flights scheduled for Sunday, most of them to and from other islands in the Atlantic archipelago off Morocco, an airport spokesman said...
Landslides, floods kill at least 25 in southwest India
Oct 17, 2021 (AFP)
Residents were cut off in parts of the coastal state of Kerala as the rains, which started to intensify from late Friday, swelled rivers and flooded roads. Some...
Bali earthquake kills three, injures seven
Oct 16, 2021 (AFP)
The 4.8 magnitude quake struck at a relatively shallow depth of 10 kilometres (six miles) northeast of the town of Banjar Wanasari. Shallow quakes tend to do mo...
Heavy flooding shuts schools, services in Athens
Oct 15, 2021 (AFP)
The second storm to pummel Greece in a week struck nationwide on Thursday, lashing the greater Athens area, the Ionian islands and the northern peninsula of Hal...
Death toll in Philippines storm rises to 19
Oct 14, 2021 (AFP)
Severe Tropical Storm Kompasu dumped more than a month's worth of rain in two days as it swept across the archipelago nation this week, national disaster agency...
Experts say Canary Islands eruption not close to ending
Oct 13, 2021 (AFP)
At the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma island, "levels of sulphur dioxide don't currently lead us to think the end of the eruption will be in the short or medi...
On a boat, elderly couple find safe haven from Canaries volcano
Oct 06, 2021 (AFP)
When the evacuation order came, neither Margaretha Straates, 80, nor her 90-year-old husband Luis Rodriguez Diaz fancied the idea of staying in temporary accomm...
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