SHAKE AND BLOW

News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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Major disaster averted as weakened Fani hits Bangladesh
May 04, 2019 (AFP)
Press reports said 12 people had died in India and police in Bangladesh put the death toll there at the same number -- a fraction of the casualty numbers seen i...
Indian pilgrim city feels full force of cyclone
May 03, 2019 (AFP)
Palm trees lining Puri's beach were bent double by express-train winds of 200 kilometeres (125 miles) an hour that came off the Bay of Bengal. Others were torn ...
The village that keeps rising from the volcanic ashes
May 03, 2019 (AFP)
"We constructed too quickly on lava that had not yet cooled down," says hotel owner Marisa Lopes, in her early 30s. "For the first months, the floors in the roo...
Mozambique records first cholera cases after Cyclone Kenneth
May 03, 2019 (AFP)
The city of Pemba registered 11 cases of the disease while the neighbouring district of Mecufi had three. "We were already prepared for that - the health care s...
Fatalities as monster cyclone batters eastern India
May 03, 2019 (AFP)
The monster weather system, which made landfall at the eastern holy city of Puri in the morning, is one of the strongest to come in off the Indian Ocean in year...
Mass evacuations as monster cyclone targets India
May 02, 2019 (AFP)
The Indian weather service said Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Fani was expected to make landfall on Friday afternoon in Odisha state and barrel northeastwards...
Mozambique holiday isle left in ruins by cyclone
May 01, 2019 (AFP)
The popular tourist destination had gone without large-scale food aid since the cyclone struck six days ago, and the human cost of the disaster was only now bei...
38 killed as floods worsen in Mozambique after second cyclone
Apr 29, 2019 (AFP)
Roads have been washed away, fields submerged and many buildings wrecked by the storm, which came weeks after Cyclone Idai struck the Mozambican city of Beira, ...
10,000 evacuated in Canada floods as rescuers search for pets
Apr 29, 2019 (AFP)
Meanwhile an operation is underway to rescue pets from homes in the area that had to be abandoned during evacuations. Hardest hit was the town of Sainte-Marthe-...
Mozambique braces for violent floods after Cyclone Kenneth
Apr 28, 2019 (AFP)
The first floods have already been seen in some parts of Pemba, the capital of Cabo Delgado province, as well as in surrounding areas, lashed by heavy rain sinc...
At least 10 dead, thousands displaced after severe Indonesia floods
Apr 28, 2019 (AFP)
Some 12,000 people have been evacuated while hundreds of buildings, bridges and roads have been damaged by the severe weather which affected nine districts or t...
Pattern of Mozambique storms 'unprecedented': UN
Apr 26, 2019 (AFP)
Cyclone Kenneth, which smashed into northern Mozambique late Thursday, hit "an area where no tropical cyclone has been observed since the satellite era," the Wo...
Cyclone Kenneth makes landfall in Mozambique
Apr 25, 2019 (AFP)
Cyclone Kenneth hit the north coast of Mozambique in Cabo Delgado province after swiping the Comoros. The UN warned of flash flooding and landslides. Some parts...
Canada residents split: to move or not after two floods in two years
Apr 25, 2019 (AFP)
"We're all discouraged and ready to give up," she told AFP, holding back tears as waters creeped from the nearby Gatineau and Ottawa Rivers. Her father, she sai...
Nepal marks quake anniversary as rebuilding continues
Apr 25, 2019 (AFP)
Nepal's prime minister K.P. Sharma Oli joined locals and civil servants at a memorial in the Kathmandu Durbar Square, a UNESCO world heritage site being rebuilt...
S.Africa president heads to floods hotspot as 51 die
Apr 24, 2019 (AFP)
Heavy rains have lashed South Africa in recent days, with the southern and eastern parts of the country badly hit since last weekend. "Our hearts go out particu...
South Africa floods, mudslides kill 33, children missing
Apr 23, 2019 (AFP)
"Heavy rains have since claimed 33 lives so far," Nomusa Dube-Ncube, a KwaZulu-Natal provincial minister said in a statement. Among those killed were a six-mont...
New quake strikes as Philippines hunts for survivors
Apr 23, 2019 (AFP)
The US Geological Survey put the fresh quake on the central island of Samar at 6.4 magnitude, which is stronger than the one that wrought significant damage Mon...
Floods, mudslides kill five in South Africa
Apr 23, 2019 (AFP)
Among those killed were a six-month-old baby, a child of about 10 and two adults. "Torrential rains damaged peoples houses (and) there were mudslides," Garrith ...
Cyclone-ravaged Mozambique threatened by new tropical storm
Apr 23, 2019 (AFP)
The poor southern African country is still reeling from the impact of deadly cyclone Idai -- the most powerful storm to hit the region in recent decades -- whic...
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