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Seven dead as strongest typhoon in quarter century batters Japan
Sep 04, 2018 (AFP)
Powerful gusts ripped sheeting from rooftops, overturned trucks on bridges and swept a tanker anchored in Osaka Bay into a bridge to Kansai International Airpor...
Strongest typhoon in quarter century hits Japan
Sep 04, 2018 (AFP)
Typhoon Jebi, with winds of up to 216 kilometres (135 miles) per hour, made landfall around midday in southwestern Japan near areas still recovering from deadly...
Japan braces for 'very strong' typhoon
Sep 02, 2018 (AFP)
Typhoon Jebi, packing winds of up to 252 kilometres (156 miles) an hour, is expected to make landfall on the country's main island on Tuesday, according to Japa...
Four dead, three missing after Myanmar dam overflow
Aug 31, 2018 (AFP)
The deceased were three men and one woman, said Phyu Lei Lei Tun, a director at the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement. "According to the infor...
OK computer: How AI could help forecast quake aftershocks
Aug 29, 2018 (AFP)
Aftershocks can be more destructive than the quakes they follow, making it all the more important for experts to be able to predict them. But while seismologist...
Pacific islands unscathed after tsunami scare
Aug 29, 2018 (AFP)
After the 7.1 magnitude quake struck off the eastern coast of New Caledonia, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said "waves reaching 0.3 to 1 metre above the ti...
Flooding kills 36 in Niger: UN
Aug 28, 2018 (AFP)
Over that period, the floods have affected a total of 130,468 people, destroying 7,212 homes, 8,162 hectares of crops and 31,118 head of cattle, the UN's Office...
Hurricane Maria killed 2,975 in Puerto Rico: new official toll
Aug 28, 2018 (AFP)
After nearly a year of controversy over the true toll of the 2017 monster storm, the governor of Puerto Rico said the new estimate would now be considered the o...
Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo caused in part by Indonesian volcanic eruption
Aug 27, 2018 (SPX)
Historians know that rainy and muddy conditions helped the Allied army defeat the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo. The June 1815 eve...
Research into deadly 2016 Italian earthquakes could improve future seismic forecasts
Aug 27, 2018 (SPX)
A joint British-Italian team of geologists and seismologists have shown that the clustering of the three quakes might have been caused by the arrangement of a c...
A milestone for forecasting earthquake hazards
Aug 27, 2018 (SPX)
All of these measures depend on science delivering high-quality seismic hazard models. And yet, current models depend on a list of uncertain assumptions, with p...
Over 1,200 people killed in South Asia monsoon
Aug 27, 2018 (AFP)
The monsoon, which lasts from June to September, causes widespread death and destruction across South Asia each year, with the tourist hotspot of Kerala sufferi...
Two dead, 255 injured in Iran earthquake
Aug 26, 2018 (AFP)
The shallow quake hit 26 kilometres (16 miles) southwest of the city of Javanrud in Kermanshah province, the US Geological Survey said, near the site of a power...
Flood toll in India's Kerala rises to 445
Aug 26, 2018 (AFP)
Around a million people are still packed into temporary relief camps and 15 are reported missing even as the government mounts an operation to clean homes and p...
Six dead, thousands evacuated in Taiwan floods
Aug 25, 2018 (AFP)
A tropical depression has been dumping torrential rain in central and southern Taiwan since Thursday, with some districts receiving close to 1,000 millimetres (...
Catastrophic floods can trigger human resettlement away from rivers
Aug 24, 2018 (SPX)
Flooding is one of the most damaging natural hazards, and its negative impacts have markedly increased in many regions of the world in recent decades. In the pe...
Hurricane Lane pummels Hawaii with torrential rain
Aug 24, 2018 (AFP)
At 0600 GMT, the National Weather Service said the hurricane was packing winds in excess of 120 miles per hour (195 kilometers per hour), despite being downgrad...
Transport disruption as typhoon batters Japan
Aug 24, 2018 (AFP)
Typhoon Cimaron made landfall late Thursday and passed over the Japanese archipelago overnight, bringing winds of nearly 200 kilometres per hour (134 mph) and d...
Indonesian earthquake death toll reaches 555
Aug 24, 2018 (AFP)
The picturesque island next to holiday hotspot Bali was hit by two deadly quakes on July 29 and August 5. On Sunday it was shaken by a string of fresh tremors a...
What is the maximum possible number of Atlantic tropical cyclones
Aug 24, 2018 (SPX)
Project leads used climate models to estimate the maximum number of tropical cyclones that might occur in the North Atlantic in the current climate. They found ...
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