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Florida girds for 'extremely dangerous' category 4 hurricane
Oct 10, 2018 (AFP)
Forecasters were calling it an "unprecedented" weather event for the area. The center said the storm could grow and is expected to slam ashore later in the day ...
Britons among 10 dead in Majorca flash floods
Oct 10, 2018 (AFP)
Muddy waters rushed down roads, houses were flooded and vehicles piled up on top of each other after the Mediterranean island was pounded with rain in just a fe...
Tsunami threat cancelled after 7.0 quake hits PNG
Oct 10, 2018 (AFP)
The United States Geological Survey said the quake hit about 125 kilometres (80 miles) east of Kimbe at a depth of around 40km. There were a string of smaller t...
Two Britons among eight dead in Majorca flash floods
Oct 10, 2018 (AFP)
Footage broadcast on Spanish television showed cars being swept away by raging waters and houses flooded after the Mediterranean island was pounded with heavy r...
Schools in southern Oman close ahead of cyclone
Oct 10, 2018 (AFP)
Cyclone Luban is expected to hit southern parts of Oman and Yemeni islands, including Socotra, on Wednesday night with winds expected to reach 120 kilometres pe...
Haiti quake toll rises to 17
Oct 09, 2018 (AFP)
Nine people were killed in the coastal city of Port-de-Paix, the closest major town to the quake's epicenter. Seven more died in Gros-Morne, about 50 kilometers...
Monuments to remember dead and missing in quake-ravaged Indonesia
Oct 08, 2018 (AFP)
Nearly 2,000 bodies have been recovered since the disaster on September 28, but authorities believe another 5,000 may be entombed beneath the ruins. The search ...
Florida braces for lethal floods as hurricane nears
Oct 08, 2018 (AFP)
The alert came as the tropical storm system strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane, packing maximum sustained winds of 75 miles (120 kilometers) per hour, earli...
More bodies found as death toll from Indonesia quake nears 2,000
Oct 08, 2018 (AFP)
The death toll from the twin disaster on Sulawesi island that erased whole suburbs in Palu has reached 1,944, said local military spokesman M. Thohir. "That num...
Two dead, one missing as Typhoon Kong-Rey hits S. Korea
Oct 06, 2018 (AFP)
A 66-year-old man died while crossing a bridge in the city of Gwangju, south of Seoul, the national disaster management agency said without elaborating on the c...
More than 1,000 may still be missing in Indonesia disaster: official
Oct 05, 2018 (AFP)
Palu city on Sulawesi island has been left in ruins after it was hit by a powerful quake and a wall of water which flattened houses and flipped over cars, with ...
Scientists zero in on cause of unusual Indonesian disaster
Oct 04, 2018 (AFP)
The 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit off Sulawesi island Friday and sent destructive waves charging into the coast, reducing buildings in Palu to rubble and sweepin...
Time running out for survivors as Indonesia toll tops 1,400
Oct 03, 2018 (AFP)
Indonesian soldiers have been ordered to fire on those raiding stores on the quake and tsunami-struck island of Sulawesi, a colonel told AFP, after desperate su...
Indonesia tsunami worsened by shape of Palu bay: scientists
Oct 02, 2018 (AFP)
At least 844 people are already known to have died in the disaster, and officials say that toll is likely to rise -- perhaps into the thousands. The 7.5-magnitu...
Dozens of students found dead as Indonesia rescue ramps up
Oct 02, 2018 (AFP)
The discovery adds to the already-high death toll from Friday's disaster, when a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami that smashed into the seaside city of P...
New Zealand earthquake study highlights influence of megathrust
Oct 02, 2018 (UPI)
"It has been commonly thought that the best way to predict future earthquakes is to analyze the earthquake histories of individual faults," Simon Lamb, an assoc...
Liquefaction: When terra firma turns to mush
Oct 02, 2018 (AFP)
In some cases, the ground swelled up several metres, sweeping away entire houses and communities and flipping hefty vehicles onto their roofs. This is due to a ...
Perfect storm of factors behind Indonesian quake-tsunami
Oct 01, 2018 (AFP)
The massive 7.5-magnitude tremor struck Friday and sent monster waves barrelling into the island of Sulawesi, leaving at least 844 dead in the seaside city of P...
Four dead after typhoon batters Japan
Oct 01, 2018 (AFP)
By Monday morning, Typhoon Trami had cleared Japan, but its powerful winds and heavy rainfall caused damage that blocked roads and train lines. Four people were...
Homes 'drift away', soil turns liquid in quake-hit Indonesian suburb
Oct 01, 2018 (AFP)
For four days, rescue workers and government officials have struggled to reach this suburb on the outskirts of the devastated city of Palu. Traversing roads cri...
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