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At least eight killed in Indonesia landslide
Dec 18, 2017 (AFP)
An avalanche of sand and rock cascaded down the slopes of Mount Merapi in Central Java about 10:00 am, burying a group of miners digging through the rocks and s...
26 dead in landslides after Philippine storm
Dec 17, 2017 (AFP)
The deaths were reported in the small island province of Biliran, a day after the storm pounded the east of the archipelago nation. Kai-Tak tore across the majo...
Thousands stranded after storm lashes Philippines
Dec 17, 2017 (AFP)
The storm has weakened, with gusts of up to 90 kilometres (56 miles) an hour, after cutting off power and triggering landslides in a region devastated by Super ...
Toll rises to three dead after Indonesia quake
Dec 16, 2017 (AFP)
The quake struck at a depth of 91 kilometres (56 miles) just outside the coastal town of Cipatujah on Java island late Friday, the US Geological Survey said. Th...
NASA shows new Tongan Island made of tuff stuff, likely to persist years
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
The newly formed Tongan island, unofficially known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai after its neighbors, was initially projected to last a few months. Now it has a ...
West coast earthquake early warning system continues progress toward public use
Dec 13, 2017 (SPX)
In two papers published December 6 in Seismological Research Letters, researchers describe the key components and testing platform for the prototype ShakeAlert ...
Magnitude 6.2 quake hits southeastern Iran: seismological centre
Dec 12, 2017 (AFP)
Eighteen people were wounded in the quake, which struck in the villages of Hejdak and Ravar in Kerman province, the national emergency service told state broadc...
Quake hits Iran-Iraq border region
Dec 11, 2017 (AFP)
Two hours after the tremor the state broadcaster, quoting the head of the crisis management cell in Kermanshah province, said there were no reports of damage or...
Beyond wind speed: A new measure for predicting hurricane impacts
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
What if there was a better way to forecast and communicate these storms' damaging economic impacts, before they happen? Colorado State University civil engineer...
Eruption clues: UNH researchers create snapshot of volcano plumbing
Dec 06, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers applied several techniques, in a new way, to create a more accurate picture of the volcano's plumbing system and how quickly the magma rises to the ...
Time between world-changing volcanic super-eruptions less than previously thought
Dec 05, 2017 (SPX)
Volcanoes and bolides, such as asteroids, are geohazards powerful enough to be destructive on a global scale. One recent assessment described them as capable of...
Thailand flood death toll rises to 15
Dec 05, 2017 (AFP)
The monsoon rains that started late last month have inundated eight provinces and hit hundreds of thousands of households, according to the Disaster Prevention ...
New early signals to quantify the magnitude of strong earthquakes
Dec 05, 2017 (SPX)
This work came out of the interaction between seismologists who wanted to better understand earthquakes and physicists who were developing fine gravity measurem...
Seafloor sediments appear to enhance Earthquake and Tsunami danger in Pacific Northwest
Dec 05, 2017 (SPX)
A new study led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that the occurrence of these big, destructive quakes and associated devastating tsunamis may be l...
Seismologists worried by tremors in DR Congo
Dec 05, 2017 (AFP)
Four tremors, each higher than four on the Richter scale, have been recorded in less than week, with the latest overnight Monday registering 4.5, said Professor...
'Sounds of the ocean' include the rumble of submarine volcanoes
Dec 04, 2017 (UPI)
To correct for the imbalance, some researchers are calling for improved monitoring efforts. One of those researchers is Gabrielle Tepp of the Alaska Volcano Obs...
Albania sends in military rescue as heavy rains trigger huge floods
Dec 03, 2017 (AFP)
The victim, Sabri Vlinga, died while he was working on a electricity pole at Roskovec in the flooded south of the country, the power company said in statement. ...
6.0 quake causes light damage, power outages in Ecuador
Dec 03, 2017 (AFP)
The quake occurred at 6:19 am local time (1139 GMT) some 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the coastal town of San Vicente, Ecuador's Geophysical Institute reported...
India, Sri Lanka cyclone death toll rises to 26
Dec 02, 2017 (AFP)
Cyclone Ockhi has left 13 people dead in Sri Lanka and killed an equal number in India's Kerala and Tamil Nadu states since Friday as it churns in the Arabian S...
Shallow 6.0 quake strikes eastern Iran
Dec 01, 2017 (AFP)
It was followed by two aftershocks of 5.0 and 5.1 in the same area around 60 kilometres (35 miles) north of Kerman, according to the US Geological Survey. "The ...
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