SHAKE AND BLOW

News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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Senegal government under fire over flooding response
Sep 07, 2020 (AFP)
The capital Dakar and major swathes of the West African country were drenched at the weekend with unusually heavy rains, even for this time of year when violent...
Deep underground forces explain quakes on San Andreas Fault
Sep 07, 2020 (SPX)
The study from the emergent field of earthquake physics looks at temblor mechanics from the bottom up, rather than from the top down, with a focus on undergroun...
Powerful typhoon slams Japan with violent winds, heavy rain
Sep 06, 2020 (AFP)
Typhoon Haishen, categorised as "large" and "extremely strong", has prompted evacuation advisories for more than three million residents, particularly in Kyushu...
N. Korea's Kim orders thousands to help typhoon recovery
Sep 06, 2020 (AFP)
Typhoon Maysak brought days of heavy downpours to the country's east coast earlier this week even as the North was still reeling from earlier flooding and typho...
Sudan declares 3-month state of emergency after record floods
Sep 05, 2020 (AFP)
"A nationwide three-month state of emergency has been announced as Sudan is considered a natural disaster zone," the interior ministry said on social media. Flo...
Typhoon Maysak drenches North and South Korea
Sep 03, 2020 (AFP)
Typhoon Maysak -- named after a Cambodian word for a type of tree -- made landfall in Busan on the southern coast, packing gusts of up to 140 kilometres per hou...
A machine-learning assist to predicting hurricane intensity
Sep 03, 2020 (JPL)
Accurately predicting whether a hurricane-laura-louisiana will undergo rapid intensification - where wind speeds increase by 35 mph (56 kph) or more within 24 h...
Nana downgraded to tropical storm over Guatemala
Sep 03, 2020 (AFP)
"Nana has weakened to a tropical depression, moving westwards," said David de Leon, the spokesman for Guatemala's Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (CONRED.) D...
Two Koreas on high alert as typhoon approaches peninsula
Sep 02, 2020 (AFP)
More than 300 domestic departures were cancelled as Typhoon Maysak churned across waters south of the resort island of Jeju packing gusts of up to 162 kilometre...
Tropical storms Nana, Omar form in Atlantic on same day
Sep 01, 2020 (AFP)
Currently swirling in the Caribbean, Nana will pass near the coast of Honduras on Wednesday before intensifying and reaching Belize one day later, the Miami-bas...
Powerful quake strikes off coast of Chile
Sep 01, 2020 (AFP)
The US Geological Survey put the magnitude at 6.8, a scale later revised upwards to 7.0 by Chile's National Seismological Center (CSN). Despite the tremor's str...
Sudan flood death toll rises to 89
Aug 31, 2020 (AFP)
A total of 37,249 homes and 150 public buildings have been destroyed by the flooding, Sudan's civil defence organisation added in a statement. Heavy rains usual...
Angry residents begin clean up in Karachi as rains lash South Asia
Aug 31, 2020 (AFP)
Successive days of storms have exposed the longstanding failures of Karachi's neglected and overwhelmed drainage system, and residents used a welcome break in t...
Fourteen killed in wake of Hurricane Laura in US; Haiti raises death toll to 31
Aug 29, 2020 (AFP)
Louisiana's Governor John Bel Edwards confirmed at least 10 people had died in his state, half from using carbon monoxide-producing portable generators indoors ...
360,000 people displaced in Lake Chad region: IOM
Aug 28, 2020 (AFP)
The basin, shared by Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria and Niger, "is experiencing the highest rainfall in nearly 30 years", the agency said in a statement. Roughly 400mm...
Dozens dead as record rains lash Pakistan
Aug 28, 2020 (AFP)
Precipitation reached record levels in Karachi, the country's largest city, where waist-deep rivers of trash-strewn floodwater swept down streets and into homes...
'Unsurvivable' storm surge feared as Hurricane Laura strengthens to Cat 4
Aug 27, 2020 (AFP)
The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said Laura was expected to make landfall along the Gulf Coast late Wednesday or early Thursday. Packing winds of 150 m...
Afghanistan flash floods kill over 100
Aug 26, 2020 (AFP)
Troops pulled dozens of victims from the rubble of collapsed buildings in Charikar, capital of Parwan province, after torrential overnight rains fuelled fierce ...
Study links rise of buried CO2 with earthquakes in Italy
Aug 26, 2020 (UPI)
Over millions of years, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere gets trapped in rocks and minerals called carbonates through a variety of chemical and biological proce...
Several districts of Niger capital flooded
Aug 25, 2020 (AFP)
Homes, rice fields and market gardens were destroyed as the Nigerien government asked residents to evacuate affected areas of the city. Almost all of Niamey's 1...
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