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Severe tropical cyclone bears down on north Australia coast
Dec 14, 2018 (AFP)
Cyclone Owen has been strengthening off the north coast of Queensland state, in warm waters in the Gulf of Carpentaria, and is expected to reach category four -...
Floods kill 13 in central Vietnam
Dec 13, 2018 (AFP)
Torrential rains have lashed six provinces in the centre of the country since Saturday, killing thousands of cows and chickens and flooding several cities -- in...
Alaska earthquakes offer new insight into improving hazard assessment
Dec 12, 2018 (SPX)
Intra-slab earthquakes usually occur deep in the earth, within tectonic plates descending into the mantle at subduction zones. Because they are so deep, intra-s...
Scientists brew lava and blow it up to better understand volcanoes
Dec 11, 2018 (SPX)
By cooking up 10-gallon batches of molten rock and injecting them with water, scientists are shedding light on the basic physics of lava-water interactions, whi...
At least 3 dead in north Cyprus flooding
Dec 06, 2018 (AFP)
Tufan Erhurman, prime minister of breakaway northern Cyprus, visited the Ciklos and Dogankoy areas where the three, including an 18-year-old woman, were killed ...
Powerful 7.5 quake off New Caledonia triggers tsunami but no damage
Dec 05, 2018 (AFP)
Authorities said the quake, followed by at least 20 strong aftershocks, was centred about 170 kilometres (100 miles) southeast of New Caledonia's Loyalty Island...
Volcanoes fueled by 'mush' reservoirs, not magma chambers
Dec 04, 2018 (UPI)
Volcanoes aren't fueled by a large chamber of molten magma, scientists found -- they're fed by reservoirs of "mush." These so-called mush chambers are mostly fi...
Alaska hit by powerful earthquake, buildings damaged
Dec 01, 2018 (AFP)
The 7.0-magnitude quake struck at 8:29 am (1729 GMT), in the middle of the school run and as workers were heading out for the day. Several people were wounded, ...
Sunset crater, San Francisco volcanic field
Nov 27, 2018 (SPX)
This eruption heavily affected prehistoric inhabitants over a wide area, forcing migration and dramatically altering settlement, subsistence, economic, and ritu...
More than 700 hurt in Iran quake
Nov 26, 2018 (AFP)
The quake struck Kermanshah province late Sunday, with an epicentre 17 kilometres (11 miles) southwest of the city of Sarpol-e Zahab, according to the country's...
Iraq floods leave 21 dead in two days: health ministry
Nov 25, 2018 (AFP)
Women and children were among the dead, health ministry spokesman Seif al-Badr told AFP. Some had drowned, but others had died in car accidents, were electrocut...
Huge quake edges New Zealand islands closer together
Nov 24, 2018 (AFP)
But the margins are minimal with the gap between the North and South islands narrowing a mere 35 centimetres (13 and a half inches), while Nelson at the top of ...
The final stage before a big bang?
Nov 23, 2018 (SPX)
In an article in the journal Science Advances, a team of vulcanologists, led by ETH Zurich's Francesca Forni and Olivier Bachmann, argues that the Phlegraean Fi...
Seven dead in floods north of Iraqi capital
Nov 23, 2018 (AFP)
Three other people were unaccounted for, said Ali Dawdah, the mayor of Al-Sharqat, a town 250 kilometres (150 miles) north of Baghdad. "Three thousand homes hav...
Thousands evacuated as Guatemala volcano erupts, then stops
Nov 20, 2018 (AFP)
Memories are still painfully fresh of the volcano's eruption in June, which swept away villages and left nearly 200 people dead and 235 missing. The Institute o...
Red alert after Guatemala volcano erupts again, 200 flee
Nov 19, 2018 (AFP)
A fiery glow rose from the crater of Fuego which is erupting for the fifth time this year, one month after the last one and following a June 3 rain of rocks, as...
Earthquake researchers finalists for supercomputing prize
Nov 19, 2018 (SPX)
Tsuyoshi Ichimura together with Kohei Fujita, Takuma Yamaguchi, Kengo Nakajima, Muneo Hori and Lalith Maddegedara were praised for their simulation of earthquak...
Cyclone death toll in southeast India hits 33: official
Nov 18, 2018 (AFP)
Cyclone Gaja, which packed winds of up to 120 kilometres (75 miles) per hour, had barrelled into Tamil Nadu state after hitting the coast on Friday. Thousands o...
Strong undersea quake off Fiji, but no tsunami
Nov 18, 2018 (AFP)
It was centred 534 kilometres (331 miles) deep and 283 kilometres east of the capital Suva where residents said they did not notice any shaking. The Pacific Tsu...
Climate simulations project wetter, windier hurricanes
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
The study, "Anthropogenic Influences on Major Tropical Cyclone Events," will be published November 15 in the journal Nature. To reach their conclusions Berkeley...
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