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Death toll from Vietnam typhoon rises to 61
Nov 07, 2017 (AFP)
Typhoon Damrey struck just before Vietnam was set to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in Danang, which will bring together US Presiden...
6.5-magnitude quake hits PNG
Nov 07, 2017 (AFP)
The tremor hit at a depth of 107 kilometres (66 miles) some 67 kilometres from the town of Angoram, the administrative centre for the Pacific nation's Lower and...
27 dead as Typhoon Damrey batters Vietnam; Floods kill 5 in Malaysia
Nov 05, 2017 (AFP)
The storm, which made landfall on Saturday, is the worst in decades to strike the country's southern coastal region, an area normally spared the typhoons that t...
Two dead, thousands flee as floods hit Malaysia's Penang
Nov 05, 2017 (AFP)
The army was deployed to provide help after a torrential downpour lasting for 15 hours sparked the worst inundations in the northern state for years. Many stree...
Future volcanic eruptions could cause more climate disruption
Nov 03, 2017 (SPX)
The study authors focused on the cataclysmic eruption of Indonesia's Mount Tambora in April 1815, which is thought to have triggered the so-called "year without...
Tsunami reveals human noise pollution in Hawaiian waters
Nov 02, 2017 (SPX)
The tsunami, triggered by the same earthquake that caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, reached waters along the island of Hawaii's Kona Coast while ...
Japanese earthquake zone strongly influenced by the effects of friction
Oct 31, 2017 (SPX)
Highly destructive earthquakes caused by subduction occur because of excessive friction that develops during the sliding process, resulting in a build-up of str...
Tropical Storm Philippe crosses Cuba towards Florida
Oct 29, 2017 (AFP)
The Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said the storm was about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Havana at 0001 GMT Sunday, moving north at 28 miles p...
Authorities lower Bali volcano alert status
Oct 29, 2017 (AFP)
Volcanic activity in Mount Agung is slowing and the volcano's status has been lowered from level four "danger" to level three "alert" by Indonesia's volcanology...
Typhoon Saola brings heavy rain in southern Japan
Oct 28, 2017 (AFP)
The storm came less than a week after Typhoon Lan left five dead, one missing and scores injured. Saola was moving 60 kilometres (37 miles) southwest of Okinawa...
New magma pathways after giant lateral volcano collapses
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
Giant lateral collapses may change the style of volcanism and the chemistry of magma, and as a new study by GFZ scientists reveals, also affects and diverges th...
Anticipating aftershocks
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
Earthquakes occur infrequently and depend on complex geological factors deep underground, making them hard to reliably predict in advance. For that reason, fore...
Yellowstone spawned twin super-eruptions that altered global climate
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
Two layers of volcanic ash bearing the unique chemical fingerprint of Yellowstone's most recent super-eruption have been found in seafloor sediments in the Sant...
Fifty simulations show how a mega Cascadia earthquake could play out
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
The last time this happened was in 1700, before seismic instruments were around to record the event. So what will happen when it ruptures next is largely unknow...
Three killed, one missing in Bulgaria floods
Oct 25, 2017 (AFP)
"There are three victims of the floods," Prime Minister Boyko Borisov told journalists. Parts of the region saw as much as 168 litres of rain per square metre o...
Floods could hit New York every five years: study
Oct 24, 2017 (AFP)
The report was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ahead of the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, which paralyzed New York in ...
Volcanic eruption showers Solomons' villages with ash
Oct 23, 2017 (AFP)
Officials said a lack of scientific equipment made it difficult to monitor the situation on Tinakula island, which lies just north of Vanuatu where 11,000 peopl...
Typhoon leaves five dead after lashing Japan on election day
Oct 23, 2017 (AFP)
Authorities advised thousands living in coastal areas or near rivers to evacuate to shelters before Typhoon Lan, described as "very large and very strong", hit ...
Los Angeles prepares for 'The Big One' with quake drill
Oct 19, 2017 (AFP)
"It's a drill today, but tomorrow it may be real," said Mayor Eric Garcetti -- a point proved in Mexico, where a drill was carried out hours before a deadly 7.1...
Scientists determine source of world's largest mud eruption
Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)
Indonesians frantically built levees to contain the mud and save the surrounding settlements and rice fields from being covered. The eruption, known as Lusi, is...
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