SHAKE AND BLOW

News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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Pacific's monster storm destroys tourist resorts in Tonga
Apr 09, 2020 (AFP)
The cyclone gathered pace as it bore down on the tiny island kingdom, which declared a state of emergency, warning residents to seek shelter from destructive wi...
Monster cyclone Harold tears through Fiji
Apr 08, 2020 (AFP)
Tropical Cyclone Harold weakened slightly overnight from a scale-topping Category Five to a Four, but was still lashing Fiji with winds of up to 240 kilometres ...
Pacific's monster storm Harold moves on to Fiji
Apr 07, 2020 (AFP)
Tropical Cyclone Harold weakened slightly overnight from a scale-topping category five to a four, but was still lashing Fiji with winds of up to 240 kilometres ...
Monster cyclone tears through Vanuatu town
Apr 07, 2020 (AFP)
Tropical Cyclone Harold, which claimed 27 lives when it swept through the Solomon Islands last week, lashed Vanuatu's northern provinces overnight as a scale-to...
Monster Pacific storm lashing Vanuatu; 27 missing in ferry tragedy
Apr 06, 2020 (AFP)
Tropical Cyclone Harold, which claimed 27 lives when it swept through the Solomon Islands last week, strengthened to a scale-topping category five superstorm ov...
New NASA radar looks to monitor volcanoes and earthquakes from space
Apr 03, 2020 (SPX)
The team flew multiple flights above the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park from July 3 to 5, 2018, to demonstrate how a new instrument could pav...
Iran floods leave 21 dead
Apr 01, 2020 (AFP)
Mojtaba Khaledi told Iran's ISNA news agency that 22 people had also been injured, with most of the casualties in southern or central provinces. He said 11 peop...
6.5 magnitude quake hits US state of Idaho
Apr 01, 2020 (AFP)
The strong quake, which was felt throughout the state, struck shortly before 6:00 pm local time and lasted between 20 and 30 seconds, residents reported. "Yep w...
Indonesian volcano spews massive ash cloud
Mar 27, 2020 (AFP)
Ash and sand covered areas several kilometres (miles) away from the peak of the rumbling crater near Indonesia's cultural capital Yogyakarta. But authorities di...
Quake hits off Russia's Kuril Islands, prompts tsunami alert
Mar 25, 2020 (AFP)
The Russian emergencies ministry said the quake's epicentre was 210 kilometres (130 miles) southeast of Severo-Kurilsk, a town of around 2,500 people on the Kur...
Powerful quake damages buildings in Croatia capital
Mar 22, 2020 (AFP)
The quake, the most powerful to strike the Croatia capital in nearly 140 years according to Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, jolted the city at around 6:00 am l...
Greek quake damages buildings, no casualties reported
Mar 21, 2020 (AFP)
The quake struck at 0049 GMT (0249 local time), with the epicentre 11 kilometres (around six miles) from Parga in Kanalaki district, and 316 kilometres northwes...
Quake rattles Salt Lake City, damages Mormon temple
Mar 18, 2020 (AFP)
The shallow quake -- Utah's strongest since 1992 -- also closed Salt Lake City airport, damaged buildings downtown and left tens of thousands without power. The...
Study of shear zones yields data on earthquakes deep below surface
Mar 13, 2020 (UPI)
Little is known about deep earthquakes, largely because their effects are generally hidden underground, but the study suggests that ruptures may be encouraged b...
Around 20 dead as heavy rains lash Egypt
Mar 13, 2020 (AFP)
In a statement posted on a government Facebook page, Madbouli said the bad weather had killed "around 20 people nationwide". He urged local officials to declare...
Mozambique deplores meagre aid for post-cyclone recovery
Mar 11, 2020 (AFP)
A post-disaster assessment led by the World Bank and United Nations determined that Mozambique needed $3.2 billion to recover from cyclones Idai and Kenneth, wh...
One year on, Mozambique still reels from Cyclone Idai
Mar 10, 2020 (AFP)
Cyclone Idai - the strongest storm on record to hit southern Africa - struck in March last year sweeping away homes, roads and bridges, leaving around 700 peopl...
Torrential rain kills at least 20 in Pakistan
Mar 07, 2020 (AFP)
Heavy rains have lashed stretches of the country near the Afghan border since Thursday. Fourteen children and three women were killed in "rain-related incidents...
Chaotic climate, chaotic cities fuel Brazil flood toll
Mar 05, 2020 (AFP)
Flash floods, landslides and other havoc wrought by torrential rain have killed at least 29 people in recent days in the states of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro....
Daredevil Nik Wallenda walks tightrope across active volcano
Mar 05, 2020 (AFP)
Masaya, 635 meters (2,083 feet) high and 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Managua, is one of only eight volcanoes in the world with an active lava lake. Wallenda s...
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