SHAKE AND BLOW - AFRICA DAILY

Jul 10, 2018 (AFP)

Maria was 500 kilometres (310 miles) east of the northeastern coastal town of Yilan with gusts of up to 190 kilometres an hour as of 10 am local time (0200 GMT)...

Landslide warnings as Japan digs through rain devastation

Jul 09, 2018 (AFP)

With the toll mounting, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe cancelled a four-country foreign trip, the government's top spokesman said. As the floods receded, emergency w...

A desperate wait for news after deadly Japan rains

Jul 09, 2018 (AFP)

"I have asked my family to prepare for the worst," the 38-year-old said quietly, sitting across from a house that had been ripped apart and tossed on its side b...

Taiwan issues warning as Typhoon Maria approaches

Jul 09, 2018 (AFP)

Maria was 1,100 kilometres (684 miles) east-southeast of the capital Taipei with gusts of up to 200 kilometres an hour as of 2:30 pm local time (0630 GMT). Wave...

First Atlantic hurricane puts Dominica on alert

Jul 07, 2018 (AFP)

Dominica, a former British colony where Maria left more than 30 people dead last September, was the only area where hurricane conditions were possible so far as...

Three more dead as record heavy rain hits Japan

Jul 06, 2018 (AFP)

The body of a woman was found by a river in central Japan's Gifu while a 59-year-old man was confirmed dead after being found by a river in western Hiroshima pr...

Bali's Mount Agung spews orange lava in fresh eruption

Jul 02, 2018 (AFP)

Last week, the tropical island temporarily shuttered the airport and grounded hundreds of flights after Mount Agung erupted. Indonesia's geological agency said ...

Four dead, hundreds evacuated as torrential rains hit Romania

Jul 01, 2018 (AFP)

High waters swept away two men and a woman, while a fourth person was crushed when flooding caused her home to collapse. An embankment gave way in the hard-hit ...

Cyclone barrels towards Japan's Okinawa

Jul 01, 2018 (AFP)

Typhoon Prapiroon was closing in on Okinawa's capital Naha on Sunday afternoon while packing gusts of up to 144 kilometres (90 miles) per hour, according to the...

The ancient giants of Yosemite, under a billion stars

Jun 30, 2018 (AFP)

One of the world's 65 remaining natural sequoia groves, and the largest in Yosemite, Mariposa Grove reopened in June, three years after the start of a $40 milli...

Japan quake battered most powerful microscopes

Jun 29, 2018 (AFP)

The two damaged units, both with price tags of 2.3 billion yen ($20 million), at Osaka University may not come back online until next year. One 12-metre-high (4...

Thousands of tourists stranded as Bali volcano eruption closes airport

Jun 29, 2018 (AFP)

The early morning closure of Ngurah Rai airport sparked the cancellation of nearly 280 flights to and from the tropical paradise with some 15,700 passengers aff...

'Ring around bathtub' at giant volcano field shows movement of subterranean magma

Jun 28, 2018 (SPX)

It's a major task to understand a mountaintop region that has erupted 50 times over the past 20,000 years. But the starting point for grasping the big picture o...

Study yields a new scale of earthquake understanding

Jun 28, 2018 (SPX)

The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, closely examines how water and calcite - a mineral that is very common in the Earth's crust - interac...

Guatemala asks US to help its migrants after volcano eruption

Jun 26, 2018 (AFP)

Officials have confirmed the deaths of 112 people as a result of the eruption on June 3, but scores more people remain unaccounted for. "I have instructed the M...

5.5-magnitude quake hits southern Greece

Jun 25, 2018 (AFP)

The earthquake hit at a depth of 30 kilometres (19 miles), about 70 kilometres southwest of the city of Kalamata, the US Geological Survey said. The epicentre w...

I.Coast govt calls for evacuation from flood zones in Abidjan

Jun 21, 2018 (AFP)

After a national security council meeting headed by President Alassane Ouattara, the government announced "the destruction of structures on storm basins and dra...

'Drum tower' collapses at Japan's quake-hit Kumamoto Castle

Jun 21, 2018 (AFP)

Heavy rain at the castle -- originally built in 1607 during Japan's feudal era -- caused a stone wall supporting the structure to crumble. The spectacular colla...

Site of the next major earthquake on the San Andreas Fault?

Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)

In their new paper for Lithosphere, Susanne Janecke and colleagues use detailed geologic and structural mapping of the southern 30 km of the San Andreas fault z...

'Slow earthquakes' on San Andreas Fault increase risk of large quakes, say ASU scientists

Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)

Creep on the central San Andreas during the past several decades, so the thinking goes, has reduced the chance of a big quake that ruptures the entire fault fro...