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Floods kill 18 in Ivory Coast
Jun 19, 2018 (AFP)
The downpour which started at 11:00 pm on Monday continued until 6:00 am on Tuesday, causing flash floods up to 2.5 metres (more than eight feet) deep. Rescue t...
Toll rises to four after quake in Japan's Osaka
Jun 19, 2018 (AFP)
The fourth fatality was an 81-year-old woman, who died after she was trapped under a chest of drawers in her house, officials said. The other fatalities include...
Toll rises to five after quake in Japan's Osaka
Jun 19, 2018 (AFP)
The fifth fatality was a 66-year-old man who was found dead on Tuesday under a number of books and CDs in his home, a local government spokeswoman said. The oth...
Parents of children killed in Mexico quake want justice
Jun 18, 2018 (AFP)
In what has become a politically charged case ahead of Mexico's July 1 elections, some of the families have brought criminal charges against the local authoriti...
Guatemala volcano search called off with nearly 200 unaccounted for
Jun 18, 2018 (AFP)
Officials have confirmed the deaths of 110 people as a result of the volcanic eruption on June 3, but another 197 remain unaccounted for. A spokesman for the go...
Volcano music could help scientists monitor eruptions
Jun 18, 2018 (SPX)
New infrasound recordings of Cotopaxi volcano in central Ecuador show that after a sequence of eruptions in 2015, the volcano's crater changed shape. The deep n...
Three dead, 200 hurt as strong quake jolts Japan's Osaka
Jun 18, 2018 (AFP)
Television images showed buildings swaying and burst pipes spewing water after the quake, which struck at the height of rush hour in the city of around two mill...
Masses of methane from mud volcanoes
Jun 15, 2018 (SPX)
They drilled down to a depth of 200 meters into an underwater mud volcano. Based on the recovered samples they found that the microorganisms in the sediment are...
Mexico declares 'red alert' for Tropical Storm Bud
Jun 15, 2018 (AFP)
Under the measure, the highest level of alert, authorities will evacuate some 9,000 people from areas at high risk of flooding and other damage, said the head o...
Taiwan indicts three over deadly quake building collapse
Jun 15, 2018 (AFP)
The building's architect and a civil engineer were also charged with causing death and injury by professional negligence, punishable by a maximum five-year jail...
Storm-battered Dominica braces for new hurricane season
Jun 12, 2018 (AFP)
He, his wife Louisette and their three sons are still living in the ruins of their five-bedroom home that Hurricane Maria flattened nine months ago when it rava...
Flood damage would double without coral reefs: study
Jun 12, 2018 (AFP)
Coupled with projected sea level rise driven by global warming, reef decline could see flooding increase four-fold by century's end, they reported in the journa...
Scientists find pre-earthquake activity in central Alaska
Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)
Tape and his colleagues found evidence for accelerating activity before a 2016 earthquake in a laterally moving fault zone in central Alaska. The activity inclu...
For relatives of Guatemala volcano victims, an agonizing wait
Jun 10, 2018 (AFP)
This small town, some 35 kilometers (20 miles) southwest of Guatemala City, was nearly wiped off the map last Sunday by the violent eruption of the Fuego volcan...
Grim search in the rubble at Guatemala's empty Ground Zero
Jun 08, 2018 (AFP)
Two hundred meters (220 yards) up the road, on the other side of the tape, is the dust-blanketed heap of rubble that once was the small town of San Miguel Los L...
Hurricane Aletta strengthens in the eastern Pacific
Jun 08, 2018 (AFP)
Though packing fierce winds of 140 miles (220 kilometers) per hour, Aletta was more than 500 miles from Manzanillo, Mexico and was on a northwesterly track away...
Aletta becomes first hurricane of east Pacific season
Jun 08, 2018 (AFP)
Aletta, which formed Wednesday as a tropical storm, escalated to a category one hurricane -- on a scale of five -- when it reached maximum sustained winds of 75...
Stanford study casts doubt on the predictive value of earthquake foreshocks
Jun 07, 2018 (SPX)
But a new study published in the online June 4 issue of Nature Geoscience by scientists at Stanford University and Bo?azici University in Turkey has cast doubt ...
Landslide threat forces suspension of Guatemala volcano search
Jun 07, 2018 (AFP)
Still-hot volcanic material and the threat of heavy rains displacing loose deposits were posing a serious risk to the safety of emergency workers, said agency s...
Researchers find new way to estimate magma beneath Yellowstone supervolcano
Jun 07, 2018 (SPX)
"It is the coal in the furnace that's heating things up," said Peter Larson, a professor in the Washington State University School of the Environment. "It's hea...
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