SHAKE AND BLOW

News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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Is it gonna blow? Measuring volcanic emissions from space
Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)
Before volcanoes erupt, there are often warning signs. Tiny earthquakes rarely felt by humans but sensed by seismographs emanate from the volcano. Plumes of wat...
WSU researchers document one of planet's largest volcanic eruptions
Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)
Only two other eruptions - the basalt floods of the Siberian Traps and the Deccan Traps - were larger, and they led to two of the Earth's great extinctions. "Th...
Climate-disrupting volcanoes helped topple ancient Egypt: study
Oct 17, 2017 (AFP)
Eruptions in the 3rd- and 1st-century BC -- including one of the biggest blasts in the last 2,500 years -- coincided with crop failures, large-scale revolts, an...
Ireland closes schools as rare hurricane approaches
Oct 16, 2017 (AFP)
"In response to the imminent Storm Ophelia, the Department of Education and Skills is now publicly informing all schools, colleges and other education instituti...
Vietnam braces for more downpours as flood toll hits 72
Oct 16, 2017 (AFP)
Downpours lashed much of northern and central Vietnam last week, causing floods and landslides that killed dozens, wiped out thousands of homes and left at leas...
Lake waves penetrate, disturb the surrounding earth
Oct 16, 2017 (UPI)
"It's kind of a new phenomenon," Keith Koper, director of the University of Utah Seismograph Stations, said in a news release. "We don't really know how it's cr...
Three killed, 360,000 without power as freak storm hits Ireland
Oct 16, 2017 (AFP)
A police spokesman said one woman in her 50s was killed outside the village of Aglish, near the south coast, when a tree fell on her car. A female passenger in ...
Rare north Atlantic hurricane heads for Ireland, UK
Oct 15, 2017 (AFP)
"In response to the imminent Storm Ophelia, the Department of Education and Skills is now publicly informing all schools, colleges and other education instituti...
Floods, landslides kill 37 in Vietnam, scores missing
Oct 12, 2017 (AFP)
Tens of thousands were evacuated after heavy rains lashed swathes of the country this week, as forecasters warned of more bad weather to come. Northern Hoa Binh...
Locals warned to stay away as Japanese volcano erupts
Oct 11, 2017 (AFP)
People were ordered to stay away from the volcano after it rumbled to life at 5:34 am (2034 GMT Tuesday) as Japan's Meteorological Agency said air blasts caused...
Magnitude-6.3 earthquake strikes northern Chile: USGS
Oct 10, 2017 (AFP)
The tremor hit 70 kilometers (43 miles) east of the coastal city of Arica, which is near the border with Peru, the US agency said. The quake struck at a depth o...
Do earthquakes have a tell sign
Oct 09, 2017 (SPX)
An interdisciplinary team recently discovered that "slow earthquakes," which release energy over a period of hours to months, could potentially lead to nearby "...
Old Faithful's geological heart revealed
Oct 09, 2017 (SPX)
University of Utah scientists have mapped the near-surface geology around Old Faithful, revealing the reservoir of heated water that feeds the geyser's surface ...
New study analyzes volcanic fatalities in more detail than ever before
Oct 09, 2017 (SPX)
A tenth of the world's population lives within the potential footprint of volcanic hazards with more than 800 million people living within 100 km of active volc...
Preservation of floodplains is flood protection
Oct 06, 2017 (SPX)
The subject of the study was the Moosach, a tributary of the Isar and located right at the Weihenstephaner "doorstep" of the TUM. The Moosach largely flows betw...
Tropical storm kills 20 in C. America, heads for US
Oct 06, 2017 (AFP)
The state of Louisiana and the city of New Orleans are preparing for a weekend impact from the storm, which could be the third hurricane to hit the southern US ...
Vanuatu volcano island evacuation complete
Oct 05, 2017 (AFP)
Everyone on Ambae, in the north of the Pacific archipelago, was ordered to leave after the Manaro Voui volcano rumbled to life and rained rock and ash on villag...
Assessing regional earthquake risk and hazards in the age of exascale
Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)
Currently, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley (Berkeley Lab) and Lawrence Livermore (LLNL) natio...
A year after Hurricane Matthew, Haiti more vulnerable than ever
Oct 04, 2017 (AFP)
That hurricane, which struck a year ago to the day, killed more than 500 people and caused two billion dollars in damage in the poorest country in the Americas....
Mexico says last body found in rubble after quake
Oct 04, 2017 (AFP)
After 15 days of searching, workers found the final victim's body beneath the mountain of rubble left by the collapse of a seven-story office building in Mexico...
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