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Deep, slow-slip action may direct largest earthquakes and their tsunamis
Dec 22, 2020 (SPX)
"What we found was pretty unexpected," said Kirsty A. McKenzie, doctoral candidate in geoscience, Penn State. Unlike the bigger, shallower megathrust earthquake...
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupts: USGS
Dec 21, 2020 (AFP)
"An eruption has commenced within Kilauea's summit caldera," shortly after 9:30 pm local time (0730 GMT), said the United States Geological Survey (USGS). "The ...
Eight dead in Philippine floods as thousands flee homes
Dec 20, 2020 (AFP)
The storm -- which has inundated villages and destroyed scores of houses in recent days -- is the latest to batter the disaster-prone archipelago. Floodwaters r...
Deadly Fiji super cyclone sparks disease fears
Dec 20, 2020 (AFP)
Agencies rushed food and clean water to areas where the storm smashed into the northern islands of the South Pacific nation on Thursday night, forcing more than...
Fiji scrambles to provide aid as cyclone toll rises
Dec 19, 2020 (AFP)
The death toll rose to four with aid workers fearing it will increase when contact is re-established with outlying areas. A state of natural disaster has been d...
Two dead, hundreds flee floods in Philippine storm
Dec 19, 2020 (AFP)
Huge waves smashed into a coastal village on Lapu-Lapu island in the central province of Cebu on Friday night, wiping out dozens of houses and leaving around 29...
Two dead as super cyclone levels Fiji villages
Dec 18, 2020 (AFP)
Yasa made landfall late Thursday as a top-of-the-scale Category Five cyclone, lashing Fiji's second-largest island, Vanua Levu. Climate change has made cyclones...
Secret of Australia's volcanoes revealed
Dec 17, 2020 (SPX)
Now, geoscientists at the University of Sydney have discovered why part of a stable continent like Australia is such a hotbed of volcanic activity. And the find...
Fijians warned of flooding, huge waves as super storm bears down
Dec 17, 2020 (AFP)
Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama blamed the unfolding emergency on climate change and told islanders that the storm could be worse than a cyclone four years ago...
Cyclone Yasa strengthens into super-storm off Fiji
Dec 15, 2020 (AFP)
The Fiji Meteorological Service said the monster storm was whipping up wind gusts of up to 280 kilometres per hour (174 mph) as it gathers strength about 550 ki...
Fiji, Tonga batten down as cyclones gather pace
Dec 15, 2020 (AFP)
The Tonga Metservice said Tropical Cyclone Zazu was a category one system, currently packing winds of up to 90 kilometres an hour (56 miles an hour), and expect...
Venice under water as complex dam system fails to activate
Dec 08, 2020 (AFP)
Residents -- long accustomed to perennial "acqua alta" or high water events -- pulled on their rubber boots once more to deal with flooding that reached a high ...
Cyclone hits Sri Lanka as southern India hunkers down
Dec 03, 2020 (AFP)
Burevi, the second cyclone in the southern Bay of Bengal in a week, slammed into north-eastern Sri Lanka just before midnight (1830 GMT). Packing winds up to 10...
Floods kill nine in southern Thailand
Dec 03, 2020 (AFP)
The deaths all came in Nakhon Si Thammarat province, where a state of emergency has been declared. The youngest victim was just five years old. Scores of homes ...
Hundreds flee as Indonesian volcano spews lava and ash
Dec 02, 2020 (AFP)
Mount Semeru on Java island spouted the towering column on Tuesday, prompting a call for around 500 people to temporarily evacuate their homes. Footage from the...
Second cyclone in a week threatens Sri Lanka, India
Dec 02, 2020 (AFP)
Burevi will pack gusts of up to 100 kilometres (60 miles) an hour when it makes landfall late on Wednesday in Sri Lanka before moving west and hitting India aro...
New Zealand lays charges over volcano deaths
Nov 30, 2020 (AFP)
WorkSafe had investigated why 47 people, mainly Australian tourists, were on the island in December 2019 when a column of burning ash and steam blasted from a v...
Atlantic hurricane season ends with records driven by climate change
Nov 30, 2020 (UPI)
According to a number of climate scientists, global warming set the stage for this year's surge of storms. In addition to testing the infrastructure and emergen...
Thousands flee as Indonesian volcano bursts to life
Nov 30, 2020 (AFP)
The evacuation of more than 4,400 residents came as Mount Ili Lewotolok erupted Sunday, spouting a thick tower of debris four kilometres (2.5 miles) into the sk...
Indonesian volcano belches huge tower of smoke and ash
Nov 29, 2020 (AFP)
There were no reports of injuries or damage from the eruption in a remote part of the Southeast Asian archipelago. But authorities raised the volcano's alert st...
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