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News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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Tens of thousands flee rumbling Bali volcano
Sep 24, 2017 (AFP)
Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency said the number of people fleeing their homes surrounding the volcano had tripled since Friday amid growing alarm that Mo...
Mexico's quake-proof building codes not always respected
Sep 23, 2017 (AFP)
"It just should have stood up. It shouldn't have come down," he says angrily. Lopez is a structural engineer and he knows the ins and outs of earthquake-resista...
Quake scares tourists from Mexico City's trendy heart
Sep 23, 2017 (AFP)
But by Friday, three days after the 7.1-magnitude earthquake levelled dozens of buildings, local hipsters were starting to return to the Condesa/Roma area, albe...
Anxiety as Mexico mounts last-ditch search for quake survivors
Sep 23, 2017 (AFP)
With exhausted emergency workers still reporting signs of life at several spots in Mexico City, the head of the national disaster management agency, Luis Felipe...
Desperate rescue effort after Hurricane Maria toll hits 33
Sep 22, 2017 (AFP)
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello called Maria the most devastating storm in a century after it destroyed the US territory's electricity and telecommunicati...
Bali volcano on highest alert level, thousands flee
Sep 22, 2017 (AFP)
Mount Agung, about 75 kilometres (47 miles) from the tourist hub of Kuta, has been rumbling since August and officials have recommended that people stay at leas...
Hope fading for survivors as Mexico search enters third day
Sep 22, 2017 (AFP)
Authorities put the death toll from Tuesday's 7.1 magnitude quake at 272 people, with the number expected to rise. Volunteer rescue workers who have been seekin...
Puerto Rico faces more floods after Maria 'obliteration'
Sep 22, 2017 (AFP)
President Donald Trump declared Puerto Rico a disaster zone and said Maria had "obliterated" the US territory of 3.4 million people. Governor Ricardo Rossello c...
'Storm of the century' Maria pummels Puerto Rico
Sep 21, 2017 (AFP)
Maria slammed into Puerto Rico's southeast coast at daybreak before churning across the US territory which is home to 3.4 million people. The storm was blamed f...
Six die in Indian mudslide; 12 dead DR Congo floods
Sep 20, 2017 (AFP)
Authorities in the remote Himalayan state of Sikkim said the six died when their home was swept away by a landside following a monsoon deluge. "Four others have...
Scramble for survivors as quake flattens Mexico City buildings
Sep 20, 2017 (AFP)
"Awful. I think it was one of the strongest we've felt. I don't know what magnitude, but it was awful," said Pedro Cruz Martinez, a public servant cradling his ...
Rescuers in grim search for survivors of Mexico quake
Sep 20, 2017 (AFP)
The death toll stood at 225, the head of the national disaster response agency, Luis Felipe Puente, wrote on Twitter. President Enrique Pena Nieto warned the fi...
Frantic search for survivors of deadly Mexico quake
Sep 20, 2017 (AFP)
Soldiers, police and civilian volunteers worked through the night after Tuesday's 7.1-magnitude quake, hoping to find survivors beneath the mangled remains of c...
21 schoolchildren among nearly 250 dead in powerful Mexico quake
Sep 20, 2017 (AFP)
The destruction revived horrific memories in Mexico on the anniversary of another massive quake in 1985, the disaster-prone country's deadliest ever. One of the...
Hurricane Maria pummels Puerto Rico
Sep 20, 2017 (AFP)
The US National Hurricane Center warned of "large and destructive waves" as Maria came ashore near Yabucoa on the southeast coast. Puerto Rico's Governor Ricard...
Israel sending soldier engineers to Mexico quake zone
Sep 20, 2017 (AFP)
The soldiers were due to depart from Israel at around 3 pm (1200 GMT) and arrive some 18 hours later, said Israeli military spokesman Jonathan Conricus. The tea...
Hurricane Maria wreaks devastation in Dominica
Sep 19, 2017 (AFP)
As residents hunkered down in their homes the Category Five hurricane made landfall with top winds swirling at 160 miles (257 kilometres) per hour, the US Natio...
Scientists find source of supervolcano in Italy; Bali tremors trigger new fears
Sep 18, 2017 (UPI)
Campi Flegrei has been relatively quiet for the last few decades, and hasn't erupted for centuries. In the 1980s, a rush of magma into the volcano's shallow cha...
Irma toll up to 50 in Florida; Typhoon rips through Japan leaving 3 dead
Sep 18, 2017 (AFP)
The Florida Division of Emergency Management put the official toll at 34, but it excluded eight known deaths in the Keys and eight more in a nursing home in Hol...
Hurricane Maria grows on fearsome Irma's path
Sep 18, 2017 (AFP)
Storm warnings and watches went up in many of the Caribbean islands still reeling from Irma's destructive passage. As of 0300 GMT Monday, Maria was a Category O...
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