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Hurricane Willa slams Mexico's Pacific coast
Oct 24, 2018 (AFP)
The powerful storm, which was a maximum Category 5 hurricane on Monday, had weakened to Category 3 as it moved toward land. But forecasters warned that even sti...
Another Japan firm admits falsifying data for quake shock absorbers
Oct 23, 2018 (AFP)
Kawakin Holdings' oil damper unit altered data for products installed at 93 education facilities, government buildings and offices, the land ministry said. "I d...
Mexico braces for 'extremely dangerous' Hurricane Willa
Oct 22, 2018 (AFP)
The Category 4 hurricane -- downgraded after earlier reaching Category 5 -- was on course to slam into Mexico somewhere around the resort town of Mazatlan on Tu...
Dangerous Hurricane Willa closes in on Mexico
Oct 22, 2018 (AFP)
The monster storm was 340 kilometers (210 miles) south-southwest of Cabo Corrientes, Mexico, packing top sustained winds of 230 kilometers per hour. "Extremely ...
Four earthquakes strike off Canada's west coast
Oct 22, 2018 (AFP)
The epicenter of the first 6.6 tremor, at 10:39pm (0549 GMT Monday), was located 135 miles (218 kilometers) southwest of Port Hardy -- a small municipality on t...
Floods in Qatar as almost a year's rain falls in one day
Oct 20, 2018 (AFP)
Roads became impassable, air traffic was disrupted and homes were flooded, while shops and universities closed. Qatar broadcaster Al Jazeera's senior meteorolog...
Flash floods in Tunisia leave five dead, two missing
Oct 18, 2018 (AFP)
Two died in the northwestern region of Kef and another in Grombalia in the north, ministry spokesperson Sofiene Zaag told AFP. On Wednesday a six-year-old child...
Two dead including child in Tunisia floods
Oct 17, 2018 (AFP)
The drownings came less than a month after torrential rains killed at least five people in the northwestern region of Cap Bon. The child died in the Sidi Bouzid...
Japan company admits falsifying data for quake shock absorbers
Oct 17, 2018 (AFP)
Tokyo-based parts maker KYB and its unit Kayaba System Machinery falsified data linked to so-called "oil dampers", which are used in nearly 1,000 buildings acro...
At least 30 killed by Hurricane Michael, according to estimates
Oct 16, 2018 (AFP)
Twelve bodies were recovered in Bay County, Florida, Sheriff Tommy Ford told local media, bringing the death toll up to 20 in that state. The powerful Category ...
Tropical storm kills three in Oman, Yemen
Oct 16, 2018 (AFP)
Mahra province in the far east of Yemen and the neighbouring Dhofar region of Oman are the only parts of the Arabian Peninsula that have a monsoon climate gover...
Evacuations ordered amid deadly flooding in central Texas
Oct 16, 2018 (AFP)
Police reported one fatality related to the flooding in Burnet County northwest of Austin, according to the local CBS television station. Widespread flooding wa...
Floods in Niger claim 45 lives since June: UN
Oct 16, 2018 (AFP)
The rains destroyed nearly 17,400 homes, killed more than 33,000 livestock and damaged crops, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) sai...
Terror-hit French town suffers second trauma in floods
Oct 16, 2018 (AFP)
The sleepy medieval town of Trebes was targeted by a gunman in March who killed four people during a rampage that saw him take shoppers and staff hostage at a l...
One dead as storm slams Oman and Yemen
Oct 15, 2018 (AFP)
The man was found dead late Sunday in a valley in the province of Dhofar, which borders eastern Yemen, the sultanate's civil defence said. News of the death cam...
Fast, accurate estimation of the Earth's magnetic field for natural disaster detection
Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)
A deep neural network (DNN) model was developed and trained using existing data; the result is a fast, efficient method for estimating magnetic fields for unpre...
Six dead as heavy storms hit southwestern France
Oct 15, 2018 (AFP)
The Aude department, which includes the fortress city of Carcassonne, was particularly badly hit. One woman was swept to her death by rising waters in the Aude ...
Deadly floods hit southwest France
Oct 15, 2018 (AFP)
The equivalent of three months rainfall was dumped overnight in the region of Carcassonne in just a few hours, sending rivers over their banks, including the Au...
Trump questions climate change during hurricane damage tour
Oct 15, 2018 (AFP)
Flying in the Marine One presidential helicopter over Florida's Mexico Beach, one of the towns worst hit by the Category 4 storm, Trump surveyed uprooted trees ...
'Zombie' storm Leslie smashes into Portugal
Oct 14, 2018 (AFP)
Leslie, which was a category one hurricane but weakened to a post-tropical storm as it made landfall late Saturday, left 28 people with minor injuries, civil de...
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