SHAKE AND BLOW

News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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Researchers develop new explanation for destructive earthquake vibrations
Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)
In a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, Brown faculty members Victor Tsai and Greg Hirth propose that rocks colliding inside a fault zone as an ea...
21 dead as torrential rain hits Brazil
Mar 03, 2020 (AFP)
Another 32 people are missing in Sao Paulo, raising fears the toll could rise further. Violent storms in recent days have dumped a month's worth of rain on some...
Erupting Indonesian volcano spews massive ash cloud
Mar 03, 2020 (AFP)
Ash mixed with sand rained down on towns as far as 10 kilometres (six miles) from the belching crater near Indonesia's cultural capital Yogyakarta. "There was a...
More than 200,000 hit by Congo floods
Feb 29, 2020 (AFP)
The government has issued an urgent international appeal after the flooding along the Congo and Ubangi rivers in the country's north, inundating communities and...
Five dead, three missing after Jakarta floods
Feb 26, 2020 (AFP)
The muddy deluge inundated the presidential palace, a major hospital and entire neighbourhoods across Jakarta on Tuesday, only weeks after 70 residents of the l...
Jakarta flood lawsuit sidelined by more floods
Feb 25, 2020 (AFP)
Lawyers on their way to court were stymied as key roads were swamped following torrential rain that inundated neighborhoods in Indonesia's capital and saw disas...
Humans in Asia survived Toba super-eruption 74,000 years ago
Feb 25, 2020 (UPI)
In a new study, scientists refute the conventional wisdom on the Toba super-eruption, arguing Homo sapiens had arrived in Asia much earlier than previous estima...
How earthquakes deform gravity
Feb 24, 2020 (SPX)
Earthquakes also send out signals that propagate at the speed of light (300,000 kilometers per second) and can be recorded long before the relatively slow seism...
Earthquake kills nine in Turkey, injures dozens in Iran
Feb 23, 2020 (AFP)
Ambulances and teams of medics rushed to the scene after the quake left homes in piles of rubble in eastern Turkey, picking through the wreckage, while nearby s...
Indonesian scouts trek flood death toll rises to eight
Feb 22, 2020 (AFP)
Two dozen students from the group of 249 scouts were injured and taken to hospital after being hit by the flood while trekking along the Sempor river near Indon...
Six students drown, five missing in Indonesia flood
Feb 21, 2020 (AFP)
Around two dozen students from a group of 250 were injured in the incident and taken to hospital in Yogyakarta, the country's cultural capital on Java island. "...
Hurricane Harvey most extreme U.S. weather event of last decade
Feb 18, 2020 (UPI)
To compile the top-ten list, retired meteorologist Douglas Le Comte, who previously worked for the NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, analyzed the cost of destru...
Oral traditions and volcanic eruptions in Australia
Feb 17, 2020 (SPX)
Existing age constraints are derived largely from radiocarbon dating of charcoal and/or optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of quartz grains in rock ...
Donors pledge 1.15 bn euros for Albania quake recovery
Feb 17, 2020 (AFP)
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said the sum -- which exceeds the total recovery bill of 1.08 billion euros assessed by the UN -- was "beyond my wildest imagin...
There's a twist in the story of volcanism and mass extinctions, say CCNY researchers
Feb 14, 2020 (SPX)
"The key finding of our research is that carbon from massive, ancient volcanic eruptions does not line up well with the geochemical clues that tell us about how...
Fires contained in hard-hit Australia state, but now floods threaten
Feb 13, 2020 (AFP)
But heavy rains that helped extinguish the blazes that have raged along the east coast since September are causing flash floods in parts of the state, posing ne...
Erupting Indonesian volcano spews ash, lava
Feb 13, 2020 (AFP)
Authorities did not raise the rumbling volcano's alert status after the early-morning eruption, but they advised commercial planes to take caution in the area. ...
Thousands flee severe flooding in New Zealand
Feb 05, 2020 (AFP)
The Southland region declared a state of emergency after being deluged with more than 1,000 mm of rainfall in 60 hours, triggering landslides on major roads and...
Peeking at the plumbing of one of the Aleutian's most-active volcanoes
Feb 05, 2020 (SPX)
Arc volcanoes like Cleveland form over plate boundaries where one tectonic plate slides beneath another. They are linked to the Earth's mantle by complex subsur...
Flash floods kill nine in Indonesia
Jan 30, 2020 (AFP)
Torrential rain in North Sumatra this week sparked the disaster, with most victims drowning or hit by logs swept away in the current, the agency added. "We susp...
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