SHAKE AND BLOW

News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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Strong typhoon barrels towards flood-hit western Japan
Aug 23, 2018 (AFP)
"Please be on high alert and take every necessary measure," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told cabinet members and officials at a meeting on storm preparedness. He ...
Rare hurricane warning as Hawaii braces for major storm
Aug 23, 2018 (AFP)
Hurricane Lane, which weakened slightly to a category 4 storm overnight, is packing 155-mile (250-kilometre) -per-hour winds and was expected to reach the archi...
Panic but no injuries as Venezuela hit by 7.3 magnitude earthquake
Aug 22, 2018 (AFP)
The tremor was an added headache for a country whose economy is unraveling amid hyperinflation and widespread grassroots anger with the leftist government. Jose...
Hurricane Lane grows to category 5 as it heads toward Hawaii
Aug 22, 2018 (AFP)
As per the latest models, the center of Lane will move very close to or over the main Hawaiian Islands from Thursday through Saturday, the National Weather Serv...
Ignored fishermen turn saviours in India floods
Aug 22, 2018 (AFP)
One man got on all fours with his face in the water so women could step on his back to board a rescue boat. Others had to suffer abuse from people angry because...
More than a million people in India flood relief camps
Aug 21, 2018 (AFP)
About 50,000 homes have been destroyed, according to one Kerala legislator, and people are flocking to the camps as the scale of the desolation is revealed by r...
Searches continue after deadly Italy flash floods
Aug 21, 2018 (AFP)
Several hiking groups were caught Monday afternoon by the torrential deluge in the Raganello river gorge in southern Cosenza province. It is unclear whether any...
India ignored warnings of Kerala flood disaster: experts
Aug 21, 2018 (AFP)
The southern state has been battered by the worst floods in almost a century that have killed more than 410 people since the monsoon started in June. Kerala is ...
Parts of Hawaii under hurricane watch as Lane approaches
Aug 21, 2018 (AFP)
Lane, a Category Four storm, was expected to make a turn toward Hawaii later in the week, forecasters at the Central Pacific Hurricane Center said. The storm wa...
Strong magnitude 7.3 earthquake shakes Venezuela
Aug 21, 2018 (AFP)
The tremor was felt for several seconds and caused panic in Caracas, notably in tall buildings, many of which were evacuated for fears of aftershocks or lasting...
Kerala floods give way to stench and uncertainty
Aug 20, 2018 (AFP)
The rain had barely stopped falling in the town on the outskirts of the southern Indian state's main city, Kochi, and abandoned cars, sodden furniture and mattr...
Eight hikers die as flash flood hits Italy's Calabria
Aug 20, 2018 (AFP)
"We have eight dead but we can't rule out the toll increasing," the local civil protection unit told AFP. A statement Monday evening from the prefecture of Cose...
Multiple quakes rock Indonesia's Lombok island, 10 dead
Aug 20, 2018 (AFP)
The latest quakes struck Sunday, with the first measuring 6.3 shortly before midday. It triggered landslides and sent people fleeing for cover as parts of Lombo...
Multiple quakes rock Indonesia's Lombok island, five dead
Aug 20, 2018 (AFP)
A series of quakes were recorded by seismologists throughout Sunday, the first measuring 6.3 shortly before midday which triggered landslides and sent people fl...
Mexico City starts demolishing quake collapse school
Aug 20, 2018 (AFP)
Demolition workers from the capital city's public works ministry put up protective plywood barriers and began removing rubble from the collapsed Rebsamen elemen...
Hurricane Lane threatening Hawaii
Aug 20, 2018 (AFP)
Packing maximum sustained winds of 125 miles per hour (205 kilometers per hour), the Category Three storm was swirling some 615 miles (990 kilometers) southeast...
Dating the ancient Minoan eruption of Thera using tree rings
Aug 20, 2018 (SPX)
"It's about tying together a timeline of ancient Egypt, Greece, Turkey and the rest of the Mediterranean at this critical point in the ancient world - that's wh...
Volcano eruptions at different latitudes impact sea surface temperature differently
Aug 20, 2018 (SPX)
As a natural external forcing to the Earth's climate system, the impact of volcanic aerosol on the climate has been of great concern to the scientific society a...
Bodies found as floods recede in India's Kerala
Aug 20, 2018 (AFP)
With nearly three quarters of a million people packed into relief camps in the southern state, known for its tourist beaches and hill resorts, authorities also ...
Fresh quake rocks Indonesia's Lombok island
Aug 19, 2018 (AFP)
The 6.3-magnitude quake, centred in East Lombok, struck at a relatively shallow depth of seven kilometres (four miles) and was felt across the island, officials...
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