SHAKE AND BLOW

News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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Quake injures more than 30 in southwest Iran
Feb 18, 2021 (AFP)
The quake struck at 10:05 pm (1835 GMT) near the town of Sisakht, in a mountainous district of Kohgilouyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, the US Geological Survey sa...
Etna spews smoke and ashes in spectacular new eruption
Feb 16, 2021 (AFP)
"We've seen worse," the head of the INGV National Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology in the nearby city of Catania, Stefano Branco, told Italian news agen...
Strong 6.2-magnitude quake rocks Vanuatu capital
Feb 16, 2021 (AFP)
"Wow, haven't felt one like that in years. My heart's still in my mouth," local journalist Dan McGarry posted on Twitter, "very large lateral movement". Authori...
Dozens injured in strong quake off Japan's Fukushima
Feb 14, 2021 (AFP)
No casualties have been reported after the late-night quake in the Pacific, which did not trigger a tsunami, and no abnormalities were observed at the stricken ...
Morocco faces questions over factory drownings
Feb 10, 2021 (AFP)
"The victims were trapped with no way to get out" and drowned, senior fire and rescue service official Abderrahim Kabajj told Morocco's 2M television station. A...
7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes in South Pacific
Feb 10, 2021 (AFP)
The quake struck at just after midnight on Thursday local time (1320 GMT Wednesday) about 415 kilometres (258 miles) east of Vao in New Caledonia at a depth of ...
At least 24 dead in Morocco underground factory flood: media
Feb 08, 2021 (AFP)
Rescue workers recovered 24 bodies from the property and rescued 10 survivors who were taken to hospital, the MAP agency said citing local authorities. A search...
Batik dye causes blood-red flood in Indonesia; Escaped tiger captured
Feb 07, 2021 (AFP)
Residents of Jenggot, near the town of Pekalongan, were seen wading through blood-red water on Saturday and many shared images of the rare phenomenon online. Of...
One dead, five missing as fresh cyclone batters Fiji
Jan 31, 2021 (AFP)
Cyclone Ana, a Category Two storm, slammed into the South Pacific island nation with winds up to 140 kilometres an hour (87 mph) and heavy rain, causing widespr...
Cyclone Eloise death toll rises to 21 : UN
Jan 29, 2021 (AFP)
Tropical cyclone Eloise hit central Mozambique on Saturday, packing winds of up to 150 kilometres (93 miles) per hour and torrential rain. It slammed into the p...
Cyclones drifting closer to the coast in Pacific, Indian oceans
Jan 28, 2021 (UPI)
The shift was identified by recent statistical analysis comprising two datasets: tropical cyclone best-track data, as well as what's called reanalysis data, sim...
Indonesian volcano erupts, spewing hot ash three kilometres away
Jan 27, 2021 (AFP)
The volcano, near Indonesia's cultural capital Yogyakarta, shot hot ash into the air around three dozen times throughout the day. Some of it travelled as far as...
String of mild quakes shake Spain's Granada area
Jan 27, 2021 (AFP)
Three of them had a magnitude of between 4 and 4.5, Spain's National Geographical Institute (IGN) said on Twitter. "Various earthquakes shook Granada again over...
There's lots of water in the world's most explosive volcano
Jan 25, 2021 (SPX)
Kamchatka's Shiveluch volcano has had more than 40 violent eruptions over the last 10,000 years. The last gigantic blast occurred in 1964, creating a new crater...
Cyclone Eloise leaves hundreds homeless in Mozambique
Jan 25, 2021 (AFP)
Cyclone Eloise made landfall in the early hours of Saturday, bringing high-speed winds of up to 150 km/h followed by torrential rain over the port city of Beira...
Chileans receive mistaken tsunami warning following Antarctic quake
Jan 24, 2021 (AFP)
The shallow Antarctic quake struck at 8:36 pm (2336 GMT) in the sea east of Chile's Eduardo Frei base, the country's National Emergency Office (Onemi) said, pro...
7.0-magnitude earthquake near Chilean Antarctic base: officials
Jan 24, 2021 (AFP)
The quake struck at 8:36 pm (2336 GMT) about 210 kilometers (130 miles) east of the base at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), Chile's National Emergency Offic...
Cyprus rattled by rare earthquake
Jan 21, 2021 (AFP)
The Cyprus Geological Survey said the quake struck at 4:27 pm (1427 GMT) near Dasaki Achna, about 18 kilometres (11 miles) northeast of the coastal city of Larn...
7.0-magnitude quake strikes off southern Philippines: USGS
Jan 21, 2021 (AFP)
The quake hit about 310 kilometres (193 miles) southeast of Davao city on the main southern island of Mindanao at a depth of 95 kilometres at 8:23 pm local time...
Research finds tiny bubbles tell tales of big volcanic eruptions
Jan 20, 2021 (SPX)
In an open-access study published online in Nature Communications, Rice's Sahand Hajimirza and Helge Gonnermann and UT Austin's James Gardner answered a longsta...
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