SHAKE AND BLOW

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Lava flow closes in on Hawaii power plant
May 23, 2018 (AFP)
Officials said there was no "immediate threat" to the Puna Geothermal Company (PGV) a 38-megawatt plant run by the state of Hawaii. Still, "cracks near the Puna...
Monitoring lava lake levels in Congo volcano
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers analyze seismic and infrasound signals generated by the volcano as well as data collected during satellite flyovers to measure Nyiragongo's lake...
Continental shelf shape leads to long-lasting tsunami edge waves during Mexican earthquake
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
Edge waves are coastal waves generated by a larger tsunami wave. They travel back and forth parallel to a shoreline. They can be an important part of overall ts...
Dangerous 'laze' forms as Hawaii volcano lava reaches ocean
May 21, 2018 (AFP)
Two lava flows "reached the ocean along the southeast Puna coast overnight," on Hawaii's Big Island, the US Geological Survey, which monitors volcanoes and eart...
Vanuatu to permanently evacuate volcanic island
May 21, 2018 (AFP)
Most villagers on the northern island of Ambae had only recently returned home. The 11,000 people on the island were forced to leave last September when the Man...
At least 18 dead after cyclone hits Horn of Africa
May 21, 2018 (AFP)
Cyclone Sagar formed last week in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen's coast and made landfall on Saturday in Djibouti and Somaliland, a breakaway state in northern Som...
Helicopters rescue residents from fresh Hawaii volcano lava flow
May 19, 2018 (AFP)
Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim wrote on Twitter Friday that "fast moving lava from Fissure 20 has crossed Pohoiki Rd near Malama Ki Place," near the Puna forest ...
Repeating seismic events offer clues about Costa Rican volcanic eruptions
May 18, 2018 (SPX)
At the 2018 SSA Annual Meeting, Rebecca Salvage of the Observatorio Vulcanologico y Sismologico de Costa Rica presented an analysis of these repeating signals f...
Biggest eruption at Hawaii volcano since it became more active
May 18, 2018 (AFP)
The Hawaii Volcano Observatory said the explosion within Kilauea's Halemaumau crater -- the biggest since the volcano became more active on May 3 -- had produce...
How large can a tsunami be in the Caribbean
May 17, 2018 (SPX)
"Before 2004, we thought an earthquake of about 8.0 was about right for the largest we might see in the Caribbean, based on the history of earthquakes there and...
Red alert raised after ash bursts from Hawaii volcano
May 16, 2018 (AFP)
The Hawaiian County Civil Defense Agency said rock falls and gas explosions from one of the craters on Kilauea had caused the ash plume which was drifting downw...
New fissures from Hawaii volcano, more eruptions feared
May 14, 2018 (AFP)
Authorities said the two new cracks were spotted in the Lanipuna Gardens neighborhood where residents were ordered to evacuate earlier this month after the volc...
China marks 10th anniversary of devastating earthquake
May 12, 2018 (AFP)
More than 87,000, including 5,335 school pupils, were left dead or missing when a 7.9-magnitude quake struck Sichuan on the afternoon of May 12, 2008 -- a trage...
China still won't tell truth about Sichuan quake: Ai Weiwei
May 12, 2018 (AFP)
"We will never get a straight answer. Since the communist government was set up, the truth behind all major historical events has never been officially revealed...
Nearly wiped out by quake, China's Qiang minority lives on
May 11, 2018 (AFP)
Today, the 29-year-old entrepreneur works from a sleek office in Sichuan province's bustling capital of Chengdu, where he is using a combination of mobile phone...
Japan councils appeal tsunami death compensation rulings
May 11, 2018 (AFP)
In late April, the Sendai High Court upheld a district court judgement ordering the two local governments to pay a combined 1.43 billion yen ($13.7 million) to ...
Indonesian volcano erupts sparks evacuations; Hawaii could be building up
May 11, 2018 (AFP)
The government ordered residents living within a five-kilometre (three-mile) radius of the crater on Java island to leave as ash covered surrounding communities...
China's celebrity earthquake pig exposes sensitivities
May 10, 2018 (AFP)
But the local public security bureau had a different idea: three plainclothes officers stopped AFP journalists from completing their reporting and escorted them...
China quake survivors relive trauma for tourists in city ruins
May 09, 2018 (AFP)
The 54-year-old government official is in charge of maintaining the broken buildings of Beichuan, a small city that has been frozen in time since May 12, 2008, ...
Strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocks Afghanistan: USGS Strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocks Afghanistan
May 09, 2018 (AFP)
The quake struck at 1041 GMT near Afghanistan's border with Tajikistan in the Hindu Kush mountains at a depth of 111 kilometres (69 miles), the USGS said. It wa...
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