SHAKE AND BLOW

News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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Major quake hits Caribbean, triggering evacuations
Jan 29, 2020 (AFP)
The tremors were felt as far as the US mainland as police in Miami evacuated some buildings as a precaution. The US Geological Survey said the quake hit at a de...
New Zealand volcano death toll rises to 21
Jan 29, 2020 (AFP)
Deputy police commissioner John Tims said the person died in hospital in Auckland, without releasing further details. Nineteen of the victims had died in New Ze...
More torrential rain in Brazil raises death toll to 54
Jan 29, 2020 (AFP)
Another 47,000 people across Minas Gerais, the southeastern state where the city is located, have been forced from their homes since the rains began on Friday, ...
More rain and less snow means increased flood risk
Jan 28, 2020 (SPX)
An analysis of over 400 watersheds from 1980 to 2016 shows that winter floods driven by rainfall can be more than 2.5 times as large as those driven by snowmelt...
Turkey probes dozens over quake social media posts
Jan 27, 2020 (AFP)
The death toll from Friday's quake in Elazig province had reached 39 people as hopes dimmed of finding more survivors amid the rubble. The Ankara prosecutor's o...
Brazil region swept by floods and record rains faces muddy desolation
Jan 27, 2020 (AFP)
"The water rose more than two meters, she lost everything," Almeida said. She and her aunt tried pushing the door of the house open, but the mud inside was so d...
Icelandic volcano swell signals potential eruption
Jan 27, 2020 (AFP)
The Icelandic Met Office declared a state of uncertainty over the weekend, following days of several smaller earthquakes and a swelling of the mountain. Alert l...
Death toll from torrential Brazil storms rises to 44: officials
Jan 26, 2020 (AFP)
In addition to the dead, the number of injured stands at 12 and that of the missing was lowered from 25 to 19, local Civil Defense officials said. The dead have...
Hopes fade for missing as Turkey quake toll rises
Jan 26, 2020 (AFP)
Nearly 4,000 rescue workers combed through debris in freezing temperatures, helped by mechanical diggers, as hope was fading as the 48th hour approached. Three ...
Hopes fade for those trapped as Turkey quake toll rises
Jan 26, 2020 (AFP)
Nearly 4,000 rescue workers combed through debris in freezing temperatures, helped by mechanical diggers, in vain hopes of finding anyone alive in the city of E...
Philippines lowers volcano alert, thousands can return home
Jan 26, 2020 (AFP)
Warning signs such as earthquakes have been steadily waning since Taal burst to life two weeks ago with plumes of ash and lava, forcing over 135,000 people into...
Rescuers scramble to find survivors after Turkey quake kills 22
Jan 25, 2020 (AFP)
The magnitude 6.8 quake struck on Friday evening, with its epicentre in the small lakeside town of Sivrice in Elazig province, and was felt across neighbouring ...
Flash floods kill 30 across southern Brazil; Torrential rain kills dozens in Madagascar
Jan 25, 2020 (AFP)
Seventeen people are also missing, seven injured, and some 3,500 have been forced out of their homes following a series of landslides and building collapses, Ci...
Geologists figure out what fuels 'slowquakes'
Jan 24, 2020 (UPI)
Slow earthquakes, which can last days or months, don't produce large seismic waves or trigger tsunamis. Imperceptible on land, these deep-lying quakes occur as ...
Signs of life at 'no-man's land' around Philippine volcano
Jan 21, 2020 (AFP)
The island site was buried by massive deposits of ash when Taal erupted last week and remains under a mandatory evacuation order due to a feared bigger blast. Y...
NASA responds to Puerto Rico quakes
Jan 20, 2020 (SPX)
NASA quickly mobilized to provide its expertise and satellite Earth-observing data in support of the response and recovery for this disaster. A team in the agen...
Evacuation crackdown ordered as Philippine volcano seethes
Jan 20, 2020 (AFP)
Over 110,000 people have taken refuge in evacuation centres since Taal burst to life a week ago, but many hard-hit towns have permitted people in to fetch items...
Evacuation crackdown ordered as Philippine volcano 'recharges'
Jan 20, 2020 (AFP)
More than 110,000 people have taken refuge in evacuation centres since Taal burst to life a week ago, but many hard-hit towns have let residents back for hours ...
Tonga escapes worst of Cyclone Tino
Jan 18, 2020 (AFP)
There were no casualties reported throughout Tonga although the sparsely populated and remote islands in the north of the archipelago were reported to have suff...
Fiji opens evacuation centres as Cyclone Tino hits
Jan 17, 2020 (AFP)
Two people were missing after attempting to swim across a swollen river late Thursday when heavy rain fell ahead of the advancing Cyclone Tino, police said. On ...
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