SHAKE AND BLOW

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Central Indian floods have tripled: study
Oct 03, 2017 (AFP)
The region of about half-a-billion people is regularly stricken by flash floods, landslides and torrential rains that kill thousands and displace millions of pe...
Database of earthquakes triggered by human activity is growing - with some surprises
Oct 03, 2017 (SPX)
Mining projects (37%) and water impounded behind dams (23%) are the most commonly reported causes of induced earthquakes, but unconventional oil and gas extract...
Vanuatu volcano eruption threat recedes: scientists
Oct 03, 2017 (AFP)
All 11,000 people who live on Ambae, in the north of the Pacific archipelago, were ordered to leave after the Manaro Voui volcano rumbled to life and rained roc...
Bali volcano evacuees outside red zone fearful to return home
Oct 02, 2017 (AFP)
Officials announced the highest possible alert level for Mount Agung, about 75 kilometres (47 miles) from the resort hub of Kuta, on September 22, telling peopl...
Tsunami enabled hundreds of aquatic species to raft across Pacific
Oct 02, 2017 (SPX)
The tsunami formed March 11, 2011, triggered by an earthquake of 9.0 moment magnitude that struck Japan the same day. At its tallest point, the tsunami towered ...
Australia sends naval support to Vanuatu's volcano island
Oct 01, 2017 (AFP)
The Vanuatu government announced last week that all 11,000 residents on Ambae -- in the north of the Pacific archipelago -- would be moved, after the Manaro Vou...
Rescuers race to save animals from Bali volcano
Sep 30, 2017 (AFP)
Mount Agung, about 75 kilometres (47 miles) from the resort hub of Kuta, has been shaking since August, causing some 144,000 people to evacuate their homes over...
Earthquake warning systems improving, but prediction still not possible, scientists say
Sep 29, 2017 (UPI)
In the wake of the two disasters, some have wondered whether the pair of quakes could have been predicted. Some suggest seismologists in Mexico were focused on ...
Philippines gets $415.2 mn loan to help flood control
Sep 29, 2017 (AFP)
The lenders will put up $207.6 million each for a $500-million project in Manila, with the Philippine government footing the balance, the banks said in a joint ...
Vanuatu orders mass evacuation of volcano island
Sep 28, 2017 (AFP)
All 11,000 people on the island of Ambae -- in the Pacific archipelago's north -- will be evacuated by October 6, Prime Minister Charlot Salwai's office said. V...
Rumbling Bali volcano triggers memories of deadly 1963 eruption
Sep 28, 2017 (AFP)
So more than fifty years later, when the Indonesian volcano began rumbling once again, the now-grandfather did not hesitate before gathering his family and flee...
More than 120,000 flee rumbling Bali volcano
Sep 28, 2017 (AFP)
Mount Agung, 75 kilometres (47 miles) from the resort hub of Kuta, has been shaking since August and threatening to erupt for the first time since 1963 -- a pot...
After tsunami, ocean plastic acted as rafts for small sea life
Sep 28, 2017 (AFP)
A total of 289 living species were found in the US on tsunami debris originating from Japan between 2012 and 2017, said the report in the journal Science. "This...
Study: To prevent flood damage and siltation, give rivers room to flow
Sep 27, 2017 (UPI)
In a paper published this week in the journal Land Degradation and Development, scientists at the Technical University of Munich argue siltation will remain a p...
Food aid, face masks dispatched to Bali as 75,000 flee volcano
Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)
Mount Agung, 75 kilometres (47 miles) from the resort hub of Kuta, has been rumbling since August and threatening to erupt for the first time since 1963 -- a po...
Food aid, face masks dispatched to Bali as 57,000 flee volcano
Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)
Mount Agung, about 75 kilometres (47 miles) from the Indonesian tourist hub of Kuta, has been rumbling since August, threatening to erupt for the first time sin...
Climate change can goad volcanoes into life
Sep 26, 2017 (SPX)
This was the question raised by geologists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE, Switzerland) working in partnership with the University of Orleans, University ...
Thousands evacuated from Vanuatu island as volcano erupts
Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)
After weeks of rumbling, activity from the Manaro Voui volcano -- at the centre of the northern island of Ambae -- increased in recent days, the Vanuatu Meteoro...
New quake shakes traumatized Mexico City
Sep 24, 2017 (AFP)
The latest quake, with a magnitude of 6.1, was smaller and further south than the 7.1-magnitude one that struck on Tuesday, killing more than 300 people and top...
Conditions growing dire in hurricane-hit Puerto Rico
Sep 24, 2017 (AFP)
Puerto Ricans are spending hours waiting in line to buy whatever they can, but often go home empty-handed if they do not manage a purchase before a dusk to dawn...
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