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Power outages after deadly Philippine quake
Jul 08, 2017 (AFP)
Power plant facilities in the central island of Leyte, which provide electricity for the island and neighbouring regions, sustained damage when the quake struck...
Falling sea level caused volcanos to overflow
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
However, there are exceptions. An international team of scientists led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Alfred-Wegener-Institute H...
Rescuers scramble to find missing after Japan floods
Jul 07, 2017 (AFP)
Raging rivers overflowing with water and mud have devastated swathes of Kyushu -- the southernmost of Japan's four main islands -- after heavy rainfall, sweepin...
How strike-slip faults form, the origin of earthquakes
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
Geologists have been uncertain about the factors that govern how new faults grow, says Cooke. In recent years she and colleagues have offered the first systemat...
Panic, damage after deadly Philippine quake
Jul 07, 2017 (AFP)
Rescuers pulled out 13 trapped people from a collapsed commercial building late Thursday in the town of Kananga on Leyte island, near the epicentre of the quake...
Deadly floods sweep southern Japan
Jul 06, 2017 (AFP)
The Kyodo news agency reported on Thursday that six people had died, with around 20 people still missing after unprecedented torrential rain caused rivers to bu...
Two dead as strong quake hits central Philippines: officials
Jul 06, 2017 (AFP)
An 18-year-old woman died after being hit by falling debris in Ormoc City on Leyte island, near the epicentre of the quake, police said. Elsewhere, rescuers pul...
Huge floods sweep southern Japan, two dead, 18 missing
Jul 06, 2017 (AFP)
Unprecedented torrential rain has caused rivers to burst their banks, sweeping away roads and houses, and destroying schools. Thousands of soldiers and other re...
Predicting eruptions using satellites and math
Jul 06, 2017 (SPX)
As magma shifts and flows beneath the earth's surface, the ground above flexes and quivers. Modern satellite technologies, similar to GPS, can now track these m...
Japan typhoon grounds flights, injures three
Jul 04, 2017 (AFP)
Typhoon Nanmadol made landfall in Nagasaki on the southwestern main island of Kyushu, packing winds of up to 144 kilometres (89 miles) per hour, Japan's meteoro...
Hundreds practice volcano safety in DR Congo
Jul 03, 2017 (AFP)
At 7:30 am (5:30 GMT), sirens wailed in four northern parts of the city, which lies on the Rwanda border in the path of lava flow from the Nyirangongo Volcano, ...
Deadly floods hit central, southern China: Flash floods kill 11 in Pakistan
Jul 03, 2017 (AFP)
At least 16 people were killed and a further 10 were unaccounted for in the southern Guangxi region as of Sunday, Xinhua news agency said, citing local authorit...
Sleuthing for Seismic Answers in the Sooner State
Jul 03, 2017 (JPL)
Then, after decades of seismic quiet where the state averaged less than two quakes of magnitude 3 or greater a year, Oklahoma suddenly saw a sharp uptick, to 20...
'Bulges' in volcanoes could be used to predict eruptions
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
Using a technique called 'seismic noise interferometry' combined with geophysical measurements, the researchers measured the energy moving through a volcano. Th...
Distant earthquakes can cause underwater landslides
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers analyzing data from ocean bottom seismometers off the Washington-Oregon coast tied a series of underwater landslides on the Cascadia Subduction Zone...
Role aerosols play in climate change unlocked by spectacular Icelandic volcanic eruption
Jun 27, 2017 (SPX)
An international team of climate scientists, led by the University of Exeter, have meticulously studied the effects that the 2014-15 eruption at Holuhraun, in I...
One killed as Storm Cindy makes landfall in southern US
Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)
The Miami-based National Hurricane Center reported that Cindy hit the coast of southwestern Louisiana and eastern Texas at around 0900 GMT, packing winds nearin...
Volcanic crystals give a new view of magma
Jun 22, 2017 (SPX)
"Our concept of what a magma reservoir looks like has to change," said Kari Cooper, professor of earth and physical sciences at the University of California, Da...
6.8-magnitude quake hits Guatemala, second in eight days: USGS
Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)
The quake struck at 6:31 am (1231 GMT) with its epicenter in the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 46.8 kilometers, about 23 kilometers (14 miles) southwest of Puerto...
Volcanic 'plumerang' could impact human health
Jun 21, 2017 (SPX)
A team of scientists, led by Dr Evgenia Ilyinskaya at the University of Leeds, traced the evolution of the plume chemistry from the 2014-2015 Icelandic Holuhrau...
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