SHAKE AND BLOW - AFRICA DAILY

Seismologists introduce new measure of earthquake ruptures

Mar 23, 2018 (SPX)

Magnitude is a measure of the relative size of an earthquake. There are several different magnitude scales (including the original Richter scale), with the "mom...

20 dead as powerful storm hits Madagascar

Mar 20, 2018 (AFP)

The storm also closed several national highways that were flooded by the heavy rain, the country's disaster management office said late Monday. In a previous to...

17 die in Madagascar tropical storm

Mar 18, 2018 (AFP)

Storm Eliakim packed winds of up to 105 kilometres (65 miles) an hour after hitting the northeast of the Indian Ocean island on Friday and barrelling down the e...

An extra half degree of global warming could displace 5 million people

Mar 15, 2018 (UPI)

The United Nations agreement on climate change set two goals in regard to global warming. The main goal calls for nations to ensure global temperatures increase...

PNG quake death toll rises to 125

Mar 14, 2018 (AFP)

A 7.5-magnitude quake struck the Pacific nation's mountainous interior on February 26, burying homes and causing landslides, making it hard to reach isolated vi...

Humans thrived in SAfrica following Toba eruption 74,000 years ago

Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)

An eruption a hundred times smaller than Mount Toba - that of Mount Tambora, also in Indonesia, in 1815 - is thought to have been responsible for a year without...

Researchers record sound of volcanic thunder for the first time

Mar 13, 2018 (UPI)

For eight months in 2016 and 2017, microphones captured the sounds of the volcano on Bogoslof Island, part of Alaska's Aleutian Islands. Analysis of the recordi...

Mexico's 2017 earthquake emerged from a growing risk zone

Mar 13, 2018 (SPX)

That newly recognized combination, scientists report, has created a fault that likely explains last September's Puebla earthquake, scientists report. On Sept. 1...

Aid reaching cut-off PNG villages devastated after big quake

Mar 12, 2018 (AFP)

Rescue workers have had to grapple with landslides, blocked roads and downed power and communications to reach isolated villages after the 7.5-magnitude quake s...

Japan tsunami, nuclear tragedy remembered seven years on

Mar 11, 2018 (AFP)

The magnitude 9.0 quake -- which struck under the Pacific Ocean on March 11, 2011 -- and the resulting tsunami caused widespread damage and took the lives of th...

Hundreds trapped as flooding hits northern Albania

Mar 09, 2018 (AFP)

More than 9,230 hectares (22,800 acres) of agricultural land is underwater in the Shkodra region, including villages where the only means of transport is by boa...

PNG quake toll rises above 100 as PM warns of long recovery

Mar 09, 2018 (AFP)

The Pacific nation's mountainous interior was struck by a 7.5-magnitude tremor on February 26, triggering landslides that blocked roads, caused power outages an...

Strong aftershock as aid starts reaching quake-hit PNG

Mar 07, 2018 (AFP)

At least 67 people were killed by the initial quake in the Pacific nation's mountainous interior on February 26, according to the Red Cross, with 500 injured an...

'Explosive' eruptions at Japan volcano

Mar 07, 2018 (AFP)

"The plume reached the height of 3,000 metres (9,800 feet) for the first time since April 3, 2011" following a total of 29 eruptions at Mount Shinmoedake, Japan...

New study reveals the secret of magmas that produce global treasures

Mar 05, 2018 (SPX)

The country's mineral deposits have been created over hundreds of millions of years through processes that are still not completely understood. One of these pro...

Fears of rising PNG death toll after region's 'worst quake in century'

Mar 04, 2018 (AFP)

The recovery effort has been slow as aid workers grapple with blocked roads and power outages to reach cut-off villages after the 7.5-magnitude quake struck on ...

State of emergency declared in PNG after major quake

Mar 02, 2018 (AFP)

O'Neill said his government was working to restore services and provide aid to the affected Hela, Southern Highlands, Western and Enga provinces in the Pacific ...

Quake-hit PNG struggles to assess damage

Feb 28, 2018 (AFP)

The 7.5-magnitude tremor struck 90 kilometres (55 miles) south of Porgera in the Pacific nation's mountainous Enga province early Monday, with aftershocks conti...

New insight into how magma feeds volcanic eruptions

Feb 27, 2018 (SPX)

Using laboratory experiments involving water, jelly and laser imaging, researchers were able to demonstrate how magma flows through the Earth's crust to the sur...

Study: Hawaiian hotspot migrated between 50 and 60 million years ago

Feb 27, 2018 (UPI)

Hotspots describe a concentration of molten tunnels, allowing magma from deep in the mantle a direct path through Earth's crust to the surface, where the molten...