SHAKE AND BLOW - AFRICA DAILY

Flood risk uncertainties assessed at the global scale

Apr 01, 2021 (SPX)

Flood magnitude is large in wet regions, but uncertainties in flood depth is larger in dry and mountainous regions affected by rare, extreme floods. The results...

Japan raises alert level after volcano erupts

Mar 30, 2021 (AFP)

There were no immediate reports of injuries after the eruption of Mount Otake in Kagoshima prefecture, according to Kyodo. The report said the Japan Meteorologi...

Guatemala's Pacaya volcano continues erupting after 50 days

Mar 26, 2021 (AFP)

The 2,500-meter (8,200-foot) volcano that lies 25 kilometers to the south of Guatemala City has been erupting for 50 days, damaging plantations in the path of t...

Iceland's volcanic eruption could be a long hauler

Mar 25, 2021 (AFP)

Experts had initially predicted that the eruption of the fissure near Mount Fagradalsfjall, just 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the capital Reykjavik, would be b...

Australia begins 'long haul' to recovery as floodwaters recede

Mar 25, 2021 (AFP)

The region has been devastated by widespread flooding brought on by a torrential downpour, inundating towns, destroying farmland and leaving two people dead. On...

Three dead in 5.4-magnitude quake in Xinjiang: state media

Mar 24, 2021 (AFP)

The earthquake hit Baicheng county in the northwestern Aksu prefecture at 5.14 am, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. Footage showed buildings s...

Australia's 'Big Wet' eases, but thousands still isolated

Mar 24, 2021 (AFP)

Eight million people in Australia's most populous state New South Wales woke to brilliant blue skies for the first time in a week, as a torrential downpour that...

Guatemala closes international airport due to volcanic ash

Mar 23, 2021 (AFP)

"Due to the change of wind direction from the south to the north and the increase in the Pacaya's volcanic activity, there is volcanic ash in the La Aurora airp...

Eruption in Russia's Far East lures 'daredevil' tourists; As 1000s flock to see Iceland lava flows

Mar 22, 2021 (AFP)

The Klyuchevskaya Sopka on Kamchatka, a volcanic peninsula in Russia's Far East, is the tallest volcano in Eurasia at 4,750 metres (15,580 feet) and one of the ...

Thousands evacuate as Sydney sees worst floods in decades

Mar 22, 2021 (AFP)

Around 18,000 residents were told to evacuate their homes, as days of relentless rainfall caused rivers in Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, to ...

Evacuations ordered as Sydney's biggest dam overflows after record rainfall

Mar 21, 2021 (AFP)

Emergency services ordered people living in low-lying areas on the city's north-western fringes to flee to safety, as authorities warned of a potentially "life-...

Icelandic volcano subsiding after first eruption in 900 years

Mar 20, 2021 (AFP)

Streams of red lava bubbled and flowed out of a fissure in a valley in Geldingadalur, close to Mount Fagradalsfjall on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern I...

False alarm sends Mexicans into street hours after quake

Mar 20, 2021 (AFP)

Nerves were on edge because a 5.7-magnitude quake had struck south-central parts of the country hours earlier, though there were no reports there of injuries or...

When volcanoes go metal

Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)

Volcanoes form when magma, which consists of the partially molten solids beneath a planet's surface, erupts. On Earth, that magma is mostly molten rock, compose...

6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes off Algerian coast: USGS

Mar 18, 2021 (AFP)

The quake hit 20 kilometres north-east of the city of Bejaia at 1:04 am local time (0004 GMT), at a depth of 10 kilometres, according to the US monitoring servi...

Four hurricane names retired after deadly destruction

Mar 17, 2021 (AFP)

The four names were wiped off the lists following a two-day virtual meeting of the WMO's 28-country Hurricane Committee serving North America, Central America a...

University of Utah scientists plumb the depths of the world's tallest geyser

Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)

The University of Utah has been studying the geology and seismology of Yellowstone and its unique features for decades, so U scientists were ready to jump at th...

Combination of climate change, development to fuel urban flooding

Mar 15, 2021 (UPI)

Previous studies have demonstrated a link between rising ocean and air temperatures and bigger, slower-moving storms -- storms capable of dropping record amount...

Floods and volcanic ashfall affect thousands in Ecuador

Mar 14, 2021 (AFP)

"We support the population affected by the fall of ash from Sangay and floods nationwide," President Lenin Moreno tweeted. Moreno also announced the restructuri...

Japan marks decade since 2011 quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster

Mar 11, 2021 (AFP)

Around 18,500 people were killed or left missing in the disaster, most of them claimed by the towering waves that swept across swathes of the northeast coast af...