SHAKE AND BLOW

News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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In US beach resort, residents seek shelter from the storm
Sep 14, 2018 (AFP)
That was a bad idea, said Avair Vereen, a local nurse who had sought safety in the shelter with her seven children. "They say if you stay (home), it's at your o...
Hurricane Florence plays cat and mouse in South Carolina
Sep 13, 2018 (AFP)
The category 2 storm's shifting track has had people here wondering if they will get a direct hit or something a little less violent. The latest forecast is tha...
Hurricane Florence closes in on US east coast
Sep 13, 2018 (AFP)
Georgia joined four other coastal states issuing an emergency declaration as forecasts showed Florence dumping historic amounts of torrential rain on the southe...
Evacuations start as Typhoon Mangkhut bears down on Philippines
Sep 13, 2018 (AFP)
Typhoon Mangkhut, which has already blasted through the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, is speeding across the Pacific with winds that can gust as high as 25...
US beach town braces for powerful Hurricane Florence
Sep 12, 2018 (AFP)
As skies fluctuated Tuesday between heavy showers and occasional bright spots, a certain sunny outlook swaddled Wrightsville Beach, despite the looming arrival ...
Residents told to 'get out now' as Florence takes aim at Carolinas
Sep 12, 2018 (AFP)
While many coastal residents heeded mandatory evacuation orders, others were boarding up homes and businesses and choosing to brave the storm. North Carolina Go...
Over a million told to flee as Hurricane Florence stalks US East Coast
Sep 11, 2018 (AFP)
"This is one of the worst storms to hit the East Coast in many years," President Donald Trump warned on Twitter. "Please be prepared, be careful and be SAFE!" S...
Florence expected to become a 'major hurricane' as it heads to US
Sep 10, 2018 (AFP)
The center of Florence was located about 685 miles (1,100 kilometers) southeast of Bermuda, the NHC in its 0300 GMT Monday advisory. Florence had maximum sustai...
Japan toll 44 after strong quake, no more missing
Sep 10, 2018 (AFP)
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said no one was left on a missing list, which suggested the figure could be the final death toll. Around 40,000 police, f...
Toll from Japan quake rises to 18 as hopes fade for survivors
Sep 07, 2018 (AFP)
Around 22 people are still unaccounted for in the small northern countryside town of Atsuma, where a cluster of dwellings were wrecked when a hillside collapsed...
In southern Mexico, 'quake isn't over' one year on
Sep 07, 2018 (AFP)
The quake, which hit just before midnight on September 7, 2017, was the most powerful to strike Mexico in a century. It killed 99 people, damaged more than 100,...
Severe flooding in N. Korea kills 76: Red Cross
Sep 06, 2018 (AFP)
Thousands of people have been left homeless after heavy rains triggered floods and landslides, toppling more than 800 buildings including houses, clinics and sc...
Japan's Kansai airport to reopen partially after typhoon damage
Sep 06, 2018 (AFP)
The collision left the airport, which is on an artificial island, temporarily cut off, stranding thousands of passengers and staff and forcing authorities to ev...
Landslides leave dozens missing after quake hits Japan's Hokkaido
Sep 06, 2018 (AFP)
Multiple, large-scale landslides struck the sparsely populated countryside, which was also hit by the edge of a powerful typhoon that surged through Japan earli...
Race to find survivors after deadly Japan quake, landslides
Sep 06, 2018 (AFP)
As many as 30 people are feared buried beneath the earth and rubble of multiple, large-scale landslides that struck sparsely populated countryside on the northe...
Global warming hikes risk of landslide tsunamis: study
Sep 06, 2018 (AFP)
It was triggered by a massive rockfall caused by melting of the Tyndall Glacier, which experts say has given them the clearest picture to date of landslide-gene...
A year on, Caribbean islands bear scars of Hurricane Irma
Sep 06, 2018 (AFP)
Fringed by white sands and turquoise waters, the islands have long been a favourite for honeymooners -- but visitors to Saint Martin, which is split between Fra...
Study uses AI technology to begin to predict locations of aftershocks
Sep 05, 2018 (SPX)
While scientists have developed empirical laws, like Bath's Law and Ohmori's Law, to describe the likely size and timing of those aftershocks, methods for forec...
Why Mount St Helens is out of line with other volcanoes
Sep 05, 2018 (SPX)
A giant subsurface rock formation some 20-30 miles in diameter, known as the Spirit Lake batholith, appears to have diverted magma and partially melted rock out...
Indonesians flee to higher ground in regional tsunami drill
Sep 05, 2018 (AFP)
The drill simulated a magnitude 9.3 earthquake off the west coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island. A total of 24 countries bordering the Indian Ocean, from Austra...
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