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Floods kill 65 in Rwanda as heavy rains pound East Africa
May 07, 2020 (AFP)
In Kenya, floods and landslides have killed nearly 200 people in the past month, while Uganda's Lake Victoria has overflown, submerging houses, a hospital and b...
Kenya floods have killed nearly 200 in past month: govt
May 06, 2020 (AFP)
The heavy flooding comes after similarly deadly rainfall at the end of last year, and brings with it a second wave of locusts with massive swarms forming in Ken...
6.8 magnitude quake strikes in Indonesia's Banda Sea, no tsunami alert
May 06, 2020 (AFP)
The undersea quake struck at a depth of some 107 kilometres (66 miles) in the sea between Indonesia's Maluku and East Timor at 22:50 local time (13:50 GMT). The...
Rethinking tsunami defense
May 05, 2020 (SPX)
Those are the findings of a peer-reviewed paper by a team of researchers who have tried to quantify how tsunami waves of different heights interact with mounds ...
Climate change is influencing where tropical cyclones are formed
May 05, 2020 (UPI)
Although the number of tropical cyclones generated each year remains stable, previous research suggest storms are getting bigger and moving slower -- bad news f...
Strong earthquake strikes off Crete, no casualties
May 02, 2020 (AFP)
The Athens Geodynamic Institute said the epicentre was about 55 kilometres (35 miles) south of the city of Ierapetra. It hit at 1251 GMT (15:51 pm). "No victims...
'Wobble' may precede some great earthquakes, study shows
May 01, 2020 (SPX)
Those movements, what researchers are calling a "wobble," may have the potential to alert seismologists to greater risk of future large subduction-zone earthqua...
New study finds connection between fault roughness and the magnitude of earthquakes
Apr 28, 2020 (SPX)
Earthquakes happen when the rocks beneath the Earth's surface break along geological fault lines and slide past each other. The properties of these faults - suc...
New Zealand volcano disaster victims to sue cruise ship firm
Apr 27, 2020 (AFP)
There were 47 people, mainly Australian tourists, on White Island when it erupted on December 9 last year, killing 21 people. Many were carried off with horrifi...
New study takes the pulse of a sleeping supervolcano
Apr 24, 2020 (SPX)
"Huge volcanic eruptions from so-called supervolcanoes are very unusual, but when they happen they are extremely devastating. It's incredibly important for volc...
Study suggests rainfall triggered 2018 Kilauea erruption
Apr 23, 2020 (SPX)
Volcanoes erupt when molten rock called magma rises to the surface, and many factors, from the shape of the volcano to the composition of the magma, factor into...
'Fourteen dead' in Yemen's flood-hit Aden
Apr 22, 2020 (AFP)
The deaths take the national toll to at least 21 after the United Nations said that seven other people were killed by flooding in the north, where the country's...
At least seven dead in Yemen flash floods
Apr 21, 2020 (AFP)
Yemen's prime minister Moeen Abdulmalik Saeed declared the southern city of Aden, where the government is based, a "disaster zone". Yemen announced its first ca...
6.4 magnitude 6.4 quake strikes off Japan cost: USGS
Apr 19, 2020 (AFP)
The epicenter of the earthquake was 41.7 kilometers (26 miles) beneath the Pacific seabed, less than 50 kilometers off the coast of Miyagi prefecture, the USGS ...
Virus lockdown puts brakes on Vanuatu cyclone relief
Apr 18, 2020 (AFP)
Nearly two weeks after the deadly monster storm barrelled through the South Pacific, local media reported that newly homeless families were still sleeping in th...
A new tool to predict volcanic eruptions
Apr 16, 2020 (SPX)
But where did the nitrogen come from? Did it escape from Earth's mantle through volcanic activity? To try to answer these questions, Jabrane Labidi, a CNRS rese...
Extreme floods to hit US cities 'almost daily' by 2100
Apr 16, 2020 (AFP)
Emissions from burning fossil fuels have already warmed Earth more than one degree Celsius above pre-industrial times, melting polar ice sheets and boosting glo...
Pacific clean-up after homes 'blown to smithereens' by superstorm
Apr 14, 2020 (AFP)
The cyclone careened through the South Pacific last week, peaking as a Category Five superstorm that gouged a trail of destruction across the Solomon Islands, V...
Timing of Earth's biggest earthquakes follows a 'devil's staircase' pattern
Apr 14, 2020 (UPI)
Previously, scientists and their models have theorized that earthquake sequences happen periodically or quasi-periodically, following cycles of growing tension ...
Florida's nightmare: a hurricane during the pandemic
Apr 11, 2020 (AFP)
"COVID is bad, a hurricane is bad. If you combine the two, it is greater than the sum," said Bryan Koon, who until 2017 directed the Florida Division of Emergen...
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