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NASA satellites detect signs of volcanic unrest years before eruptions
Apr 14, 2021 (SPX)
This is, in part, because no two volcanoes behave in exactly the same way and because few of the world's 1,500 or so active volcanoes have monitoring systems in...
French volcano enthusiasts camp out to skirt curfew
Apr 13, 2021 (AFP)
The Indian Ocean island has been under a 6.00 pm-5.00 am curfew since March 5 in a bid to tame coronavirus infections. That presented a problem for amateur phot...
Cyclone Seroja causes 'widespread damage' in Australia towns
Apr 12, 2021 (AFP)
The storm, which devastated parts of Indonesia and East Timor last week, brought lashing rain and winds of up to 170 kilometres per hour (105 mph) to areas offi...
Climate change caused hurricanes to dump more rain in 2020, study says
Apr 12, 2021 (UPI)
Researchers used what they called "hindcast attribution" -- like a forecast but for the past -- to quantify rainfall associated with storms during the 2020 Atla...
Saint Vincent covered in thick ash following volcanic eruption
Apr 11, 2021 (AFP)
The thick dust was also on the move, traveling 175 kilometers (110 miles) to the east and starting to impact the neighboring island of Barbados. "Barbadians hav...
Power and water outages strike Saint Vincent after volcanic eruption
Apr 11, 2021 (AFP)
After remaining quiet for nearly 42 years, La Soufriere rumbled back into life Friday, blanketing the island in ash and permeating the air with the stench of su...
Seven killed after quake rocks Indonesia's Java island
Apr 10, 2021 (AFP)
The afternoon quake hit offshore about 45 kilometres southwest of Malang city in East Java, damaging hundreds of homes as well as schools, government offices an...
Caribbean island orders evacuations after volcano warning
Apr 09, 2021 (AFP)
Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said the island was on red alert after a shift in volcanic activity at the La Soufriere crater and told residents in northern are...
New cyclone barrels toward disaster-struck Indonesia
Apr 09, 2021 (AFP)
Tropical cyclone Odette was set to dump torrential rains on south Sumatra and other parts of the country including central Java and holiday island Bali. While t...
Satellites monitor Mount Etna's unpredictable behaviour
Apr 09, 2021 (ESA)
Located on the east coast of Sicily, Mount Etna is one of the world's most active volcanoes. Its eruptions occur at the summit, where there are four craters: th...
Cyclone that ravaged Indonesia, East Timor set to hit Australia
Apr 08, 2021 (AFP)
Tropical Cyclone Seroja is expected to hit Western Australia late Sunday or early Monday after tracking south. It is forecast to bring "destructive winds with g...
Aid flows into cyclone-struck Indonesia as death toll rises
Apr 08, 2021 (AFP)
Local authorities declared a state of emergency for East Nusa Tenggara -- among Indonesia's poorest provinces and the epicentre of the disaster -- until early M...
Fault slip patterns could help predict volcano eruptions, magma viscosity
Apr 07, 2021 (UPI)
The breakthrough, detailed Wednesday in the journal Nature, could help scientists forecast a volcano's eruption style. Magma's viscosity is an important factor ...
Iceland volcano unleashes third lava stream
Apr 07, 2021 (AFP)
The spectacular eruption began on March 19 when a first fissure disgorged a steady stream of lava, flowing into the Geldingadalir valley of Mount Fagradalsfjall...
Race to find dozens missing in deadly Indonesia, East Timor floods
Apr 06, 2021 (AFP)
Torrential rains from Tropical Cyclone Seroja, one of the most destructive storms to hit the region in years, turned small communities into wastelands of mud, u...
Over 100 dead in Indonesia, East Timor floods, dozens missing
Apr 05, 2021 (AFP)
Packing heavy winds and rain, the storm heaped more misery on the Southeast Asian nations after Sunday's disaster turned small communities into wastelands of mu...
New lava stream flows from Iceland volcano
Apr 05, 2021 (AFP)
The 200-metre (yards) long fissure is a kilometre from the first eruption, which sits in the Geldingadalur valley, said an Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO)...
Florida homes evacuated as wastewater leak risks 'catastrophic' flood
Apr 04, 2021 (AFP)
More than 300 homes near the site of an abandoned phosphate mine and fertilizer-production facility in Manatee County were under mandatory evacuation orders, an...
Over 50 dead after flash floods in Indonesia and Timor Leste
Apr 04, 2021 (AFP)
Floods sparked by torrential rain wreaked havoc and destruction on islands stretching from Flores Island in Indonesia to Timor Leste, a small nation east of the...
NOAA study shows promise of forecasting meteotsunamis
Apr 02, 2021 (SPX)
An atmospheric inertia-gravity wave is a wave of air that can run from 6 to 60 miles long that is created when a mass of stable air is displaced by an air mass ...
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