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News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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Hurricane Delta bears down on Mexico's Caribbean coast
Oct 07, 2020 (AFP)
The hurricane weakened to Category 3 as it approached the Yucatan Peninsula, but still threatened to bring strong winds and a "life-threatening" storm surge, th...
300 million delta dwellers vulnerable to cyclones, flooding
Sep 29, 2020 (AFP)
One in ten live on floodplains hit by once-a-century cyclones that can generate 350-kilometre (200-mile) per hour winds and up to a metre (40 inches) of rain pe...
700,000 affected by South Sudan floods: UN
Sep 29, 2020 (AFP)
"The humanitarian situation is worsening," Matthew Hollingworth, the World Food Programme's South Sudan country director, told a virtual briefing in Geneva. "Ab...
Tree rings show influence of volcanoes on temperatures, human history
Sep 28, 2020 (UPI)
Scientists analyzed thousands of tree rings, from both living and dead specimens across North America and Eurasia. The tree data helped scientists compile a det...
Nanocrystals can trigger explosive volcanic eruptions
Sep 24, 2020 (UPI)
"Exactly what causes the sudden and violent eruption of apparently peaceful volcanoes has always been a mystery in geology research," lead researcher Danilo Di ...
One dead, dozens injured as tropical storm Noul hits Vietnam
Sep 18, 2020 (AFP)
Images on state-run Vietnam Television showed damaged houses and trees, and power poles pulled from the ground as the country's biggest storm of the year made l...
Vietnam plans to evacuate one million people as storm Noul approaches
Sep 17, 2020 (AFP)
Tropical Storm Noul is forecast to make landfall around 1:00 pm (0600 GMT) Friday in the central province of Thua Thien Hue, carrying winds of up to 110 kilomet...
Sally leaves trail of destruction across Gulf Coast
Sep 17, 2020 (AFP)
Sally, which made landfall Wednesday as a Category 2 hurricane, turned streets into rivers, toppled trees and downed power lines. "Our house had windows blow ou...
Sally drenches US Southeast after hitting Gulf Coast as hurricane
Sep 17, 2020 (AFP)
Sally made landfall overnight near Gulf Shores, Alabama along the border with Florida as a Category 2 hurricane. Slow-moving Sally, which was subsequently downg...
Hurricane Sally gains strength as it nears southern US
Sep 16, 2020 (AFP)
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said coastal areas in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida were in the sights of the storm, that was packing maximum sustained w...
Sudan pleads for aid to tackle devastating floods
Sep 15, 2020 (AFP)
"The health situation in Sudan wasn't at its best anyway, and it is becoming more and more challenging," Sudan's Foreign Affairs Minister Omar Qamareddine said,...
Volcanic ash may have a bigger impact on the climate than we thought
Sep 14, 2020 (SPX)
A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder suggests that such volcanic ash may also have a larger influence on the planet's climate than scientists p...
Hurricane Sally strengthens, on track to hit southern US
Sep 14, 2020 (AFP)
The National Hurricane Center said the storm in the Gulf of Mexico was packing maximum sustained winds of around 100 miles (160 kilometers) per hour. At 2100 GM...
Sudan Nile level drops after deadly floods
Sep 13, 2020 (AFP)
Heavy rains usually fall in Sudan from June to October, and the country faces severe flooding every year. But this year officials said they had recorded the hig...
Hundreds killed in African floods
Sep 11, 2020 (AFP)
Aid needs are likely to surpass 2019 levels, according to the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. In 11 countries in West and ...
Earthquake may have destroyed Canaanite palace 3,700 years ago
Sep 11, 2020 (UPI)
Excavations at a large dig site outside of Tel Kabri, Israel, have revealed an impressive palatial complex. Evidence suggests the city and palace flourished dur...
Sandbagging saves ancient Sudan gem from record floods
Sep 10, 2020 (AFP)
Authorities last week declared a three month national state of emergency over the flooding affecting swathes of land adjoining the Nile, and more than 100 peopl...
Nearly 60 bridges, 2,000 houses wrecked by typhoon in North Korea
Sep 09, 2020 (AFP)
Typhoon Maysak brought days of heavy downpours to the country's east coast last week even as the North was still reeling from earlier flooding and typhoon damag...
65 killed, 330,000 left homeless in Niger floods
Sep 09, 2020 (AFP)
The ministry of humanitarian action and disaster management told AFP on Tuesday that as of September 7, 51 people had died when their home collapsed in the floo...
Typhoon hits South Korea after triggering landslides in Japan
Sep 07, 2020 (AFP)
More than 300,000 households were still without power Monday afternoon after Typhoon Haishen roared past Japan's southern island of Kyushu, ripping off roofs an...
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