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One dead, 5 missing as northeast Spain hit by flash floods
Oct 23, 2019 (AFP)
Police said they found a man's body late on Tuesday on the beach in Caldes d'Estrac, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Barcelona, while further south, resc...
Magma crystallization causes basaltic eruptions to turn explosive
Oct 22, 2019 (UPI)
New research suggests rapid magma crystallization is responsible for the dark side of basaltic eruptions. Hazardous basaltic eruptions are known as Plinian erup...
Niger floods force 23,000 from their homes
Oct 20, 2019 (AFP)
Heavy rains have caused the Komadougou Yobe river that flows through the semi-desert Diffa region into Lake Chad to burst its banks, inundating villages, floodi...
Ghana flooding leaves 28 dead
Oct 18, 2019 (AFP)
"At the moment the death toll is 28. About 640 people in some six communities have been displaced and we are providing shelters for them," George Ayisi, spokesm...
Caltech, NASA find web of ruptures in Ridgequest quake
Oct 18, 2019 (JPL)
The dominoes-like sequence of ruptures also increased strain on a nearby major fault, according to the study, which was published in the journal Science. The Ri...
California unveils early warning earthquake app
Oct 17, 2019 (AFP)
The app, created by the University of California, Berkeley, and unveiled on the 30th anniversary of the deadly Loma Prieta quake, uses ground motion sensors loc...
Four dead in Philippine quake
Oct 17, 2019 (AFP)
The 6.4-magnitude quake struck the Mindanao region, which makes up the southern third of the Philippines, on Wednesday night. On Thursday morning, local authori...
Five dead in Philippine quake
Oct 17, 2019 (AFP)
The 6.4-magnitude quake struck the Mindanao region on Wednesday night, reducing dozens of houses to rubble on the southern third of the Philippines. On Thursday...
'Treasure trove' of quake clues could be unearthed by wavy new technique
Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)
Their technique combines traditional 'acoustic mapping' with a newer method called 'full waveform inversion'. They found their new method enhanced their view of...
Aqua reveals flooding in Japan from Typhoon Hagibis
Oct 16, 2019 (SPX)
Hagibis made landfall just before 6 a.m. EDT (7 p.m. local time, Japan) on Oct. 12, on the Izu Peninsula, located southwest of Tokyo. On Oct. 12 at 5 p.m. EDT (...
Japan in non-stop search for typhoon survivors; toll at 74
Oct 15, 2019 (AFP)
Hagibis slammed into Japan on Saturday, unleashing fierce winds and unprecedented rain that triggered landslides and caused dozens of rivers to burst their bank...
New satellite may make flood prediction easier
Oct 14, 2019 (SPX)
The study, published last month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, found that the satellite also will likely improve flood modeling around the world, ...
Japan rescuers seek survivors after Typhoon Hagibis kills 35
Oct 14, 2019 (AFP)
Hagibis crashed into the country on Saturday night, but brought hours of heavy rains even before it arrived, causing landslides and filling rivers until they bu...
58 dead, rescuers in 'day and night' hunt for missing after Japan typhoon
Oct 14, 2019 (AFP)
Typhoon Hagibis crashed into the country on Saturday night, unleashing high winds and torrential rain across 36 of the country's 47 prefectures, triggering land...
Early warning signals heralded fatal collapse of Krakatau volcano
Oct 14, 2019 (SPX)
Satellite data, for example, showed increased temperatures and ground movement on the southwestern flank months before the catastrophe. Seismic data and low-fre...
Japan braces for powerful typhoon Hagibis
Oct 11, 2019 (AFP)
Overnight, Typhoon Hagibis was downgraded slightly from its "super typhoon" status, but was still forecast to be packing maximum gusts of 216 kilometres per hou...
Japan top court upholds damages over student tsunami deaths
Oct 11, 2019 (AFP)
In all, 74 children from Okawa Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki drowned after being told to wait on school grounds with teachers, 10 of whom also die...
Japan super typhoon at weekend could hit Rugby World Cup, Grand Prix
Oct 09, 2019 (AFP)
Typhoon Hagibis, currently classed as "violent" -- the top end of Japan's storm scale -- is on track to directly hit part of Japan's east coast, possibly barrel...
Six killed after heavy rains hit DR Congo's capital
Oct 09, 2019 (AFP)
The bodies were found between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Five people were killed in the capital's Selembao municipality where around 30 houses collaps...
Rugby World Cup: Typhoon changes course, heads nearer Tokyo
Oct 08, 2019 (AFP)
According to the latest modelling from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Super Typhoon Hagibis is now projected to clip southeastern Japan, near Tokyo and ...
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