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Hurricane Michael death toll hits 17, officials say it could rise
Oct 13, 2018 (AFP)
The mammoth storm, which made landfall as a Category 4 storm on Wednesday, claimed lives in four states, but Florida suffered the worst damage by far. Large par...
'Zombie' Hurricane Leslie bears down on Portugal, Spain
Oct 13, 2018 (AFP)
Neighbouring Spain was also preparing itself for what was dubbed a "zombie" hurricane, as it first formed on September 23 and has been meandering through the wa...
Guatemala Fuego eruption is over: officials
Oct 13, 2018 (AFP)
However, mild to moderate explosions sent smoke swirling up to 940 meters above the crater, while a lava flow measuring 1,200 meters continued. "All of this act...
At least 22 dead in Indonesia floods and landslides
Oct 13, 2018 (AFP)
Heavy downpours since Wednesday triggered flooding and landslides that hit several districts on Sumatra island. At least 17 people were confirmed killed in the ...
Hurricane Michael death toll hits 17
Oct 13, 2018 (AFP)
"Mexico Beach is devastated," Florida Governor Rick Scott said of the town where Michael made landfall as a Category 4 storm on Wednesday. "It's like a bomb wen...
Guatemala's Fuego volcano erupts again
Oct 12, 2018 (AFP)
Increased volcanic activity over the last 24 hours could release tons of fiery volcanic material and force evacuations of mountain villages, warned Guatemala's ...
Smaller, more frequent eruptions affect volcanic flare-ups
Oct 12, 2018 (SPX)
Taupo is an active system, where some of the world's largest eruptions have occurred over the past two million years. In particular, between 350,000 and 240,000...
Volcano researcher learns how Earth builds supereruption-feeding magma systems
Oct 12, 2018 (SPX)
After studying layers of pumice visible in road cuts and other outcrops, measuring the amount of crystals in the samples and using thermodynamic models, they de...
GeoSEA array records sliding of Mount Etna's southeastern flank
Oct 12, 2018 (SPX)
With the new GeoSEA seafloor geodetic monitoring network, scientists from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, the Kiel University, priority res...
Spanish royals visit Majorca after deadly floods
Oct 12, 2018 (AFP)
The royal couple visited several homes that were damaged in Sant Llorenc des Cardassar, one of the towns worst-hit towns by the intense, driving rain on Tuesday...
At least 41 dead in Uganda landslide
Oct 12, 2018 (AFP)
Rescue teams continued picking through the rubble late Friday, searching for survivors and victims of the disaster which took place the previous day in the east...
Cyclone Titli batters eastern India, 300,000 evacuated
Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)
Officials in neighbouring Bangladesh said they were on alert in the coastal district of Cox's Bazar, home to around one million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar l...
Cyclone batters eastern India, 300,000 evacuated
Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)
Cyclone Titli, which intensified into a "very severe cyclonic storm" over the Bay of Bengal, made landfall near Gopalpur on India's east coast, the Press Trust ...
Escaping the 'monster's roar': A US hurricane survivor's story
Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)
But it never occurred to her, in the rushing and the chaos and the wet, that the building was surrounded by trees and pines. They only brought more danger for h...
Michael weakens to tropical storm after day of havoc in Florida
Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)
Two deaths were blamed on the hurricane -- one in Florida and one in Georgia as the storm raced across the neighboring state, heading northeast. Florida officia...
Search teams comb debris for victims of deadly Hurricane Michael
Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)
In Mexico Beach, a seafront town where the hurricane made landfall, houses had been razed by storm surge, boats had been tossed into yards and the streets were ...
Seven killed in 'massive landslide' in Uganda: Red Cross
Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)
"The preliminary report indicates that the number is likely to increase from the reported seven but we are yet to establish the actual numbers," Uganda Red Cros...
Three dead, IMF summit shaken as strong quake hits Indonesia
Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)
The 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's Bali and Java islands in the early hours, injuring nearly 30 people and sending residents rushi...
Search called off in Indonesian quake-tsunami: official
Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)
The magnitude 7.5-quake and a subsequent tsunami razed whole swathes of Palu to the ground on September 28. More than 2,000 bodies have been recovered since the...
Fear, indignation among tourists in Majorca after floods
Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)
At least three of the 12 people who died were foreigners -- a British couple and an elderly Dutch woman -- after intense rain on Tuesday caused riverways to ove...
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