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Bali's Agung volcano spews ash in fresh eruption
Dec 30, 2018 (AFP)
Mount Agung has been erupting periodically since it rumbled back to life in 2017, when it grounded hundreds of flights and left 120,000 visitors stranded. On Su...
6.9-magnitude quake hits Philippines triggering small tsunami
Dec 29, 2018 (AFP)
The quake struck southeast of Davao City at a depth of 59 kilometres (35 miles), the US Geological Survey said, a week after a volcano-triggered tsunami killed ...
Indonesian tsunami volcano lost two-thirds of its height
Dec 29, 2018 (AFP)
A section of Anak Krakatoa's crater collapsed after an eruption and slid into the ocean, generating the tsunami last Saturday night. A visual analysis by the In...
Indonesia trims tsunami death toll, hikes injury tally
Dec 28, 2018 (AFP)
Authorities said 426 people had been killed -- down from a previous tally of 430 -- with double-counting by different districts blamed for the change. Two dozen...
Indonesia tsunami raises fears for endangered Javan rhino
Dec 28, 2018 (AFP)
There are believed to be fewer than 70 of the critically endangered species in a national park not far from a rumbling volcano that triggered Saturday's killer ...
Torrential rains flood displaced camps in northern Syria
Dec 28, 2018 (AFP)
"On December 26... hundreds of tents were washed away in Atme, Dana, Sarmada and Qah in the northern countryside of Idlib," the Union of Medical Care and Relief...
Indonesia hikes danger level for deadly tsunami volcano
Dec 27, 2018 (AFP)
Authorities also widened a no-go zone around rumbling Anak Krakatoa to five kilometres (three miles) -- up from a previous two kilometres -- and warned shell-sh...
Indonesia prays on anniversary of 2004 Boxing Day tsunami
Dec 26, 2018 (AFP)
The annual memorial came after the long-buried remains of dozens of Boxing Day tsunami victims were found last week in Aceh province, which was devastated by th...
4.8 quake hits near Sicily's Mount Etna
Dec 26, 2018 (AFP)
Two people were pulled from a collapsed building and around 10 were taken to hospital suffering light injuries from falling debris. An elderly woman suffered mu...
Indonesia rescuers scramble to reach isolated tsunami-struck towns
Dec 26, 2018 (AFP)
But torrential rains hampered the effort and heaped more misery on the region, as officials warned another killer wave could hit the stricken area. The disaster...
Indonesian pop group singer to bury wife killed in tsunami
Dec 25, 2018 (AFP)
Dramatic footage posted online showed fans clapping and cheering before the wave smashes into the concert, hurling band members from the stage and slamming into...
Sick, hungry Indonesia tsunami survivors cram shelters
Dec 25, 2018 (AFP)
Fears about a public health crisis come as the death toll from Saturday's volcano-triggered disaster rose to nearly 400 with thousands more displaced from flatt...
Hunt for survivors as Indonesian tsunami death toll tops 280
Dec 24, 2018 (AFP)
Rescue teams used their bare hands, diggers and other heavy equipment to haul debris from the stricken area around the Sunda Strait, as thousands were evacuated...
Rumbling Indonesia volcano could trigger more tsunamis, experts warn
Dec 24, 2018 (AFP)
- What caused the tsunami? - While tsunamis are often triggered by earthquakes, in this case experts believe the deadly waves were generated by an eruption of t...
Mount Etna eruption causes airspace closure
Dec 24, 2018 (AFP)
Italy's national institute for geophysics and vulcanology (INGV) counted more than 130 seismic shocks in the zone, with the strongest reaching a magnitude of 4....
Indonesia's angry 'Child of Krakatoa' rumbles on
Dec 23, 2018 (AFP)
Anak Krakatoa (the "Child of Krakatoa") has been particularly active since June, occasionally sending massive plumes of ash high into the sky and in October a t...
Nigeria flood victims a 'major emergency': Red Cross
Dec 20, 2018 (AFP)
"Many of the 200,000 people who fled flood waters are now leaving displacement camps but some of them are finding nothing but destroyed homes and farmland", Abu...
Oroville Dam earthquakes in February 2017 related to spillway discharge
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
It seems likely that fluid leaking through cracks in the main spillway altered the pressure on the underlying rock fractures, causing them to slowly open and th...
Paradigm shift needed for designing tsunami-resistant bridges
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
The study, motivated in part by hundreds of bridges being destroyed during recent tsunamis off the coast of Japan and in the Indian Ocean, advances the understa...
Thousands flee cyclone on India's east coast
Dec 18, 2018 (AFP)
Cyclone Phethai packed winds up to 90 kilometres (55 miles) per hour, felling thousands of trees and electricity pylons, and bringing heavy rains to the coastal...
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