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More than 30 believed dead in PNG quake: report
Feb 27, 2018 (AFP)
The 7.5-magnitude tremor struck 90 kilometres (55 miles) south of Porgera in the Pacific nation's Enga province early Monday, with two strong aftershocks rattli...
PNG troops respond to major 7.5 quake as aftershocks feared
Feb 26, 2018 (AFP)
Authorities warned of aftershocks and landslides. There was no official information on fatalities or injuries in the rugged region but one unconfirmed report of...
Final bodies removed from rubble of Taiwan quake
Feb 26, 2018 (AFP)
The Chinese couple from Beijing who were on a sightseeing trip had already been named among the 17 dead after a 6.4-magnitude quake toppled buildings in the coa...
Stanford scientists eavesdrop on volcanic rumblings to forecast eruptions
Feb 20, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists from Stanford and Boise State University analyzed the infrasound detected by monitoring stations on the slopes of the Villarrica volcano in southern ...
Tourists stranded as cyclone's tail hits New Zealand
Feb 20, 2018 (AFP)
Authorities said they were considering sending ferries to ship the holiday-makers out of the remote South Island region after huge landslips closed the main hig...
Analysis of major earthquakes supports stress reduction assumptions
Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)
The idea that earthquakes relieve stress on faults in the Earth's crust makes intuitive sense and underlies the common assumption that the portion of a fault th...
Why the seafloor starts moving
Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)
Cities of the future may be built with locally available volcanic ash
Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)
In a paper published online in the Journal of Cleaner Production, the researchers report that, by replacing a certain percentage of traditional cement with volc...
Aid reaches cyclone-hit Tonga as storm passes Fiji
Feb 14, 2018 (AFP)
Military aircraft from Australia and New Zealand flew emergency supplies to Nuku'alofa, which was battered early Tuesday by the most powerful cyclone ever recor...
New map profiles induced earthquake risk for West Texas
Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)
The new study, published this month in the journal The Leading Edge, provides a color-coded map of the 75,000-square mile region that identifies those potential...
Giant lava dome confirmed in Japan's Kikai Caldera
Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)
The dome is in the world's largest class of post-caldera volcano, with a volume of over 32 cubic kilometers. The composition of this lava dome is different from...
Tiny fossils, huge slides: Are diatoms the key to Earth's biggest slides?
Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)
Morelia Urlaub, a marine geoscientist at the Geomar Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, voices the obvious question: "How can you fail on a sl...
Blackouts, flooding as cyclone batters Tongan capital
Feb 13, 2018 (AFP)
Veteran disaster management officials were shocked at the fury of Severe Cyclone Gita as it unleashed 230 kmh (142 mph) winds on Tonga's most populous island To...
Four dead as storm hits southern Philippines
Feb 13, 2018 (AFP)
Tropical Storm Sanba slammed the east coast of the main southern island of Mindanao Tuesday with gusts of 75 kilometres (47 miles) an hour. The heavy rain trigg...
Tonga declares state of emergency as cyclone looms
Feb 12, 2018 (AFP)
The cyclone has already created havoc in neighbouring Samoa and is threatening to become a Category Five superstorm as it approaches Tonga. Acting Prime Ministe...
Search for Taiwan quake victims ends as toll rises to 17
Feb 11, 2018 (AFP)
Thousands of emergency workers had combed through rubble at the foot of the 12-storey Yun Tsui apartment block since the quake struck the eastern city of Hualie...
Taiwan quake toll rises to 15 as bodies pulled from rubble
Feb 10, 2018 (AFP)
Scores of emergency workers combed the rubble at the foot of the 12-storey Yun Tsui apartment block that was left leaning at around a 50-degree angle by the qua...
Bali volcano evacuees allowed to return home as alert level lowered
Feb 10, 2018 (AFP)
The volcano, located about 75 kilometres (46 miles) from the tourist hub in Kuta, has been periodically spewing molten clouds of ash and smoke for months, forci...
Hero labrador sniffs out survivor in Taiwan quake wreckage
Feb 09, 2018 (AFP)
Four-year-old Tie Hsiung, whose name translates to "Iron Hero", braved dangerous aftershocks on his first field test to search for survivors after a 6.4-magnitu...
Taiwan demolishes quake-hit buildings as rescue efforts intensify
Feb 09, 2018 (AFP)
At least 10 people were killed when the 6.4-magnitude quake hit the eastern tourist city of Hualien Tuesday. A family of five Chinese mainland nationals and a C...
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