SHAKE AND BLOW

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Strong earthquake shakes Peru's capital
Jun 23, 2021 (AFP)
Peru's Seismological Center said it was magnitude 6, while the US Geological Survey which monitors earthquakes worldwide pegged it at magnitude 5.8. It struck a...
Heavy rains in Crimea trigger floods, state of emergency
Jun 18, 2021 (AFP)
Yalta's declaration followed a region-wide state of emergency on Thursday after a cyclone struck the Black Sea peninsula and began lashing it with heavy rains. ...
Forecast predicts global increase in coastal overtopping
Jun 18, 2021 (UPI)
Coastal overtopping, or wave overtopping, occurs when waves, storm surges or extreme tides breach natural or artificial coastal barriers, whether a reef or floo...
Death toll rises as monsoon floods hit Bhutan and Nepal
Jun 17, 2021 (AFP)
The annual monsoon season is crucial to replenish water supplies across South Asia, but it also causes death and destruction. Ten collectors of cordyceps -- a f...
One dead, seven missing in Nepal monsoon flood
Jun 16, 2021 (AFP)
The annual monsoon rains in the Himalayan nation revitalises farms and waterways but also triggers deadly landslides and floods. Officials said a landslide caus...
5.7 magnitude quake rocks southern Philippines: USGS
Jun 14, 2021 (AFP)
The shallow quake struck on Mindanao island at 10:38 pm local time (1438 GMT), according to USGS. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology warned ...
Volcanologists take the pulse of DR Congo's temperamental volcano
Jun 14, 2021 (AFP)
Four experts from DR Congo's Goma Volcano Observatory (GVO) took the trail last week to get a closer look at Nyiragongo, which briefly flared into life on May 2...
Cause, scope determined for deadly winter debris flow in Uttarakhand, India
Jun 11, 2021 (SPX)
The event began when a wedge of rock carrying a glacier broke off of a steep ridge in the Himalayan mountain range. The resulting debris flow destroyed two hydr...
For many evacuees of DR Congo volcano, an uncertain future
Jun 09, 2021 (AFP)
Thousands are homeless after Africa's most active volcano kicked back into life on May 22, spewing a river of lava that stopped at the city's fringe. "Even if I...
DR Congo announces 'progressive return' to volcano city
Jun 07, 2021 (AFP)
Around two-thirds of Goma's 600,000 population left after an evacuation order was issued last month, although thousands have since streamed back, defying offici...
Thousands homeless as Sri Lanka floods death toll hits 17
Jun 07, 2021 (AFP)
The monsoon hits the South Asian country twice a year, bringing vital rain for irrigation and hydro-power generation, but it can be deadly and destructive. At l...
Sri Lanka floods, mudslides kill 16
Jun 06, 2021 (AFP)
Heavy downpours in 10 out of the country's 25 districts since Friday buried most of the victims alive, the DMC said. In the central Kegalle district, a pet dog ...
Searching for the lost children after DR Congo volcanic eruption
Jun 04, 2021 (AFP)
But hundreds of parents are still frantically searching for children who became separated from them during the panicky flight to safer ground. In Ndosho, one of...
New study shines light on hazards of Earth's largest volcano
Jun 04, 2021 (SPX)
"An earthquake of magnitude-6 or greater would relieve the stress imparted by the influx of magma along a sub-horizontal fault under the western flank of the vo...
6.1-magnitude earthquake strikes eastern Indonesia
Jun 03, 2021 (AFP)
The strong quake hit at a relatively shallow depth of 31 kilometres (20 miles), about 127 kilometres southwest of the city of Ternate. Shallower quakes tend to ...
DR Congo mulls return to volcano city
Jun 03, 2021 (AFP)
"Seismic data recorded on Wednesday attest to a significant fall in magnitude and earth tremors," the crisis management cell in North Kivu province said in a da...
NASA scientists use lightning to help predict hurricane intensity
Jun 02, 2021 (SPX)
A team of scientists led by NASA researcher Patrick Duran recently published a study on the evolution of lightning flash density, flash size, and flash energy d...
'Limnic eruption': DR Congo's volcano nightmare
Jun 02, 2021 (AFP)
The phenomenon first came to the world's attention in August 1984, when 37 people mysteriously died at Lake Monoun in western Cameroon. Scientists found that di...
Ancient volcanic eruption destroyed the ozone layer
Jun 02, 2021 (SPX)
"Toba has long been posited as a cause of the bottleneck, but initial investigations into the climate variables of temperature and precipitation provided no con...
Volcano experts helicopter in to DR Congo crater
Jun 01, 2021 (AFP)
Piloted by South Africans, a Puma helicopter from the UN's MONUSCO peacekeeping mission delivered leading volcanologists to the inside of Mount Nyamuragira, whe...
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