SHAKE AND BLOW

News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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More bodies found in flooded Kerala as toll hits 357
Aug 19, 2018 (AFP)
Entire villages in Kerala have been swept away in the state's worst floods in a century, and emergency responders fear the death toll will rise as they reach ar...
Flood rescue stepped up as more torrential rain batters Kerala
Aug 18, 2018 (AFP)
Dozens of military and coastguard helicopters took troops to high risk areas seeking people trapped on the roofs of submerged buildings. Indian Prime Minister N...
Flood toll rises to 77 in India's Kerala state
Aug 16, 2018 (AFP)
Over 60,000 people have now entered relief camps and the army and navy have stepped up rescue operations in the southern state, using a helicopter to airlift pe...
India warns of 'extremely grave' crisis as flood toll rises
Aug 16, 2018 (AFP)
Helicopters airlifted stranded victims from rooftops and dam gates were thrown open as incessant torrential rain brought fresh havoc to the southern state that ...
Fears for historic city of Agadez as flooding continues
Aug 15, 2018 (AFP)
"We have already triggered an alert warning the population to be prepared and vigilant: flood surges have already carried off an ambulance with two people insid...
Sierra Leone remembers victims of deadly mudslide
Aug 14, 2018 (AFP)
Around 500 people, many dressed in black and white, gathered in a church in the Regent district where heavy rains caused the partial collapse of a mountain, now...
Hero dog saves Indian family in flood-hit Kerala
Aug 13, 2018 (AFP)
Mohanan P. and his family were sleeping at home in the mountainous Idukki district when their pet dog started barking raucously at around 3:00 am, waking the ho...
Flash floods kill 37 in India's tourist hotspot Kerala
Aug 11, 2018 (AFP)
Kerala, famed for its pristine palm-lined beaches and tea plantations, is battered by the monsoon every year but the rains have been particularly severe this se...
Puerto Rico says hurricane-linked deaths may top 1,400
Aug 10, 2018 (AFP)
The revelation came in a recovery plan submitted to lawmakers in Washington this week that included an estimated price tag of $139 billion, nearly 50 percent mo...
Indonesia quake toll jumps to 164, survivors wait for aid
Aug 09, 2018 (AFP)
Relief efforts have yet to reach parts of the island four days after the quake hit, Indonesian authorities said, as hopes fade of finding further survivors amon...
Aftershocks rock Indonesia's Lombok as quake death toll tops 300
Aug 09, 2018 (AFP)
The shallow 6.9-magnitude quake Sunday levelled tens of thousands of homes, mosques and businesses across Lombok, with relief agencies only just starting to rea...
US forecasts even fewer hurricanes in Atlantic for 2018
Aug 09, 2018 (AFP)
The milder outlook comes after a particularly devastating year in 2017, when 10 hurricanes tore through the Atlantic basin making it the most expensive season o...
Niger floods leave 22 dead and thousands homeless
Aug 09, 2018 (AFP)
"As of August 6, 49,845 people have been affected... and unfortunately we have recorded 22 deaths," Niger's minister for humanitarian action, Laouan Magadji, to...
German man missing after floods rip through French campsite
Aug 09, 2018 (AFP)
The 75-year-old man was accompanying a group of around 100 German children who were evacuated from a campsite in Saint-Julien-de-Peyrolas, some 60 kilometres (3...
Rain-on-snow flood risk to increase in many mountain regions of the western US, Canada
Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)
The greatest flood risk increases are projected for the Sierra Nevada, the Colorado River headwaters and the Canadian Rocky Mountains - places where residents a...
Typhoon Shanshan clips Japan coast, sparing Tokyo
Aug 09, 2018 (AFP)
The fierce storm system was expected to begin moving away from land after brushing Japan's main island, the country's meteorological agency said. But authoritie...
Earthquakes can be weakened by groundwater
Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)
Their findings include the extremely counterintuitive discovery that highly pressurized water in the vicinity of an earthquake tends to limit - rather than incr...
Hurricane Hector threatens Hawaii, John targets Mexico
Aug 08, 2018 (AFP)
The Category Four storm was expected to pass about 100-150 miles (60-100 km) south of the Big Island on Wednesday, government forecasters said. Swells kicked up...
Strong typhoon churns towards Japan
Aug 08, 2018 (AFP)
Typhoon Shanshan was expected to be less than 150 kilometres (90 miles) from Tokyo around midnight on Wednesday (1500 GMT), sparking fears the busy morning comm...
More than 70,000 homeless after deadly Lombok quake
Aug 08, 2018 (AFP)
The shallow 6.9-magnitude quake killed at least 105 people and triggered panic among locals and tourists on Lombok on Sunday, just a week after another tremor s...
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