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No volcanic winter in East Africa from ancient Toba eruption
Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)
The new findings disagree with the Toba catastrophe hypothesis, which says the eruption and its aftermath caused drastic, multi-year cooling and severe ecologic...
Rescuers brave aftershocks as Taiwan quake toll rises to nine
Feb 08, 2018 (AFP)
A 6.4-magnitude quake hit the popular eastern tourist city of Hualien late Tuesday, leaving a handful of buildings badly damaged -- some of them leaning at terr...
Satellite-based earthquake early warning system tested against Chilean great quakes
Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)
The early warning module, called G-FAST, uses ground motion data measured by Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) to estimate the magnitude and epicenter ...
September 2017 earthquakes highlight successes of Mexico's early warning system
Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)
The magnitude 8.2 earthquake is the largest earthquake detected by the alert system, known as SASMEX, since it began operations in 1993. SASMEX also sent an ale...
False tsunami alert sent to US coasts
Feb 07, 2018 (AFP)
The National Weather Service issued what it characterized as a "routine test message" at approximately 8:30 am (1330 GMT), but the message was erroneously trans...
Deadly landslides, flooding spark evacuations in Jakarta
Feb 06, 2018 (AFP)
The bodies of three people were pulled from a pile of mud and rock after a landslide triggered by torrential rain inundated a village in the city of Bogor south...
China launches electromagnetic satellite to study earthquake precursors
Feb 05, 2018 (XNA)
A Long March-2D rocket launched at 15:51 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, in northwest China's Gobi Desert, carried the 730-kilogram China Seismo-Electroma...
Shallow 6.1-magnitude earthquake hits off Taiwan: USGS
Feb 04, 2018 (AFP)
The quake's epicentre was around 15 kilometres (nine miles) north of the port city of Hualien at a depth of around eight kilometres, the USGS added. There were ...
Guatemala volcano eruption subsides after 20 hours
Feb 02, 2018 (AFP)
The eruption of the Volcan de Fuego ("Fire Volcano") sent ash towering 1.7 kilometers (one mile) into the sky and raining down on at least eight communities, sa...
6.1 magnitude quake rattles northern Afghanistan: USGS
Jan 31, 2018 (AFP)
The quake struck at 0707 GMT near Afghanistan's northern border with Tajikistan in the Hindu Kush mountains at a depth of 191 kilometres (119 miles), the USGS s...
Gasps and awe as supermoon rises over erupting Philippine volcano
Jan 31, 2018 (AFP)
Mount Mayon -- the country's most active volcano -- has been spewing spectacular but potentially lethal ash and lava for the last fortnight, forcing some 90,000...
Mudflow threat builds with more lava, debris from Philippine volcano
Jan 30, 2018 (AFP)
Mount Mayon has spewed millions of tonnes of ash, rocks, lava and debris in less than three weeks, much of it loosely lodged on its burnt slopes and which exper...
Tidal cycles could help predict volcanic eruptions, study suggests
Jan 29, 2018 (SPX)
"Looking at data for this volcano spanning about 12 years, we found that this correlation between the amplitude of seismic tremor and tidal cycles developed onl...
Seine peaks as waterlogged Paris eyes clean-up
Jan 29, 2018 (AFP)
This December and January have been France's wettest for 50 years, the national weather agency said -- and the saturated ground in the Paris region means that e...
Could underwater sound waves be the key to early tsunami warnings?
Jan 29, 2018 (SPX)
The sound waves, known as acoustic gravity waves (AGWs), are naturally occurring and can be generated in the deep ocean after tsunami trigger events, such as un...
90,000 flee Philippine volcano stretching relief camps
Jan 29, 2018 (AFP)
President Rodrigo Duterte flew to the central city of Legazpi on Monday to assess the disaster zone, some two weeks after the country's most active volcano bega...
Fearless Philippine farmers defy volcano anger
Jan 29, 2018 (AFP)
Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from around the erupting Mayon volcano, as a white-hot cocktail of gas and volcanic debris streaks down its flan...
Seine inches higher, keeping Paris on alert
Jan 28, 2018 (AFP)
The river rose to 5.82 metres (19 feet) on Sunday, more than four metres above its normal level, causing continued headaches for commuters as well as people liv...
Deadly mudflows threaten residents near erupting Philippine volcano
Jan 27, 2018 (AFP)
The official Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) issued the warning as heavy rains lashed the area surrounding the Mayon volcano, whic...
Volcanos, earthquakes: Is the 'Ring of Fire' alight?
Jan 26, 2018 (AFP)
The spate of activity around the so-called Ring of Fire has raised concerns that a major and potentially deadly volcanic eruption or earthquake could be on the ...
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