SHAKE AND BLOW

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Death toll climbs in Nigeria flooding: relief agency
Sep 27, 2018 (AFP)
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said 199 people had lost their lives after the main Niger and Benue rivers burst their banks. A national disaste...
Flood frequency of the world's largest river has increased fivefold
Sep 26, 2018 (SPX)
Water levels of the Amazon River have been recorded daily in Port of Manaus, Brazil since the beginning of the last century. The team used 113 years of water le...
5.0 magnitude earthquake rocks Indonesia's Aceh
Sep 26, 2018 (AFP)
The shallow quake struck shortly before 1 am local time with its epicentre 20 kilometres northwest of the city of Langsa. No tsunami warning has been issued. In...
Hurricane Rosa forms off Mexico's Pacific coast
Sep 26, 2018 (AFP)
Rosa is the 10th hurricane of the eastern Pacific season, according to the US National Hurricane Center. It strengthened from a tropical storm to a Category 1 h...
Five killed in torrential Tunisia rains
Sep 23, 2018 (AFP)
Saturday's storm caused water levels in some areas to rise as much as 1.7 metres (5.6 feet), as bridges and roads were damaged in record rains that dropped the ...
Small satellite peers inside Hurricane Florence
Sep 21, 2018 (JPL)
TEMPEST-D, which deployed into low-Earth orbit from the International Space Station in July, carries a state-of-the-art miniaturized microwave radiometer, an in...
Six killed, dozens missing in new Philippine landslide
Sep 20, 2018 (AFP)
The new tragedy comes just days after 2018's most powerful storm, Typhoon Mangkhut, pounded the nation's north with heavy winds and rain, sparking a separate la...
Ghana flooding kills 34 during heavy rains
Sep 20, 2018 (AFP)
Bagre Dam is located on the White Volta river that begins in Burkina Faso and which converges with the Black Volta downstream and feeds into Lake Volta in south...
The Amazon is flooding five times more often than it used to
Sep 19, 2018 (UPI)
Scientists in England, Chile and Brazil analyzed river level records dating back more than a century. The data showed extreme floods -- when water levels rise a...
Mexico marks anniversaries of two deadly quakes
Sep 19, 2018 (AFP)
Raising their fists in the air -- the symbol used by rescue workers to call for quiet as they search for signs of life in the rubble -- Mexico City residents he...
Philippines typhoon toll hits 81, expected to rise
Sep 19, 2018 (AFP)
Mangkhut swamped farm fields in the nation's agricultural north and smashed houses when it tore through at the weekend with violent winds and heavy rains. Since...
100 die in severe flooding in Nigeria: relief agency
Sep 18, 2018 (AFP)
Heavy seasonal rains have caused the Niger and Benue rivers to burst their banks, inundating communities, farms and trapping tens of thousands of people in thei...
Philippines typhoon toll climbs as searchers dig for landslide missing
Sep 18, 2018 (AFP)
The typhoon, the most powerful to strike this year, smashed homes and flooded key agricultural regions in the northern Philippines before battering Hong Kong an...
Florence death toll jumps to 31 as flooding wreaks havoc
Sep 18, 2018 (AFP)
Emergency management authorities in North Carolina said an earlier toll of 17 had risen to 25 since Florence made landfall Friday as a Category 1 hurricane, wit...
Picking up the pieces a year after Mexico's earthquake
Sep 17, 2018 (AFP)
1. Forever a mom Miriam Rodriguez Guise's son, Jose Eduardo, would have turned eight Monday. He was one of 19 children killed when the Rebsamen elementary schoo...
Massive clean-up in Hong Kong after typhoon chaos
Sep 17, 2018 (AFP)
The death toll in the Philippines, where the north of the main island of Luzon was mauled by fierce winds and rain, reached 65. It was expected to rise further ...
Hongkongers battle debris to get to work after devastating typhoon
Sep 17, 2018 (AFP)
Commuters crammed into stations to try to board infrequent trains after the rail system was slowed by damaged power lines. All buses were cancelled because many...
Mexico marks twin anniversaries of deadly quakes
Sep 17, 2018 (AFP)
A year ago, residents of Mexico City had just finished the earthquake drill they hold every September 19 -- a ritual in memory of 1985 -- when, some two hours l...
Floodwaters rise as killer storm stalks southeastern US
Sep 17, 2018 (AFP)
Downgraded to a tropical depression, Florence slowly crawled over South and North Carolina, dumping heavy rains on already flood-swollen river basins that autho...
'Once in a lifetime' hurricane weakens, begins lashing eastern US
Sep 14, 2018 (AFP)
In its 0300 GMT advisory, the National Hurricane Center said the maximum sustained winds of Florence were 90 miles per hour (150 kilometers per hour), dropping ...
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