SHAKE AND BLOW - AFRICA DAILY

Rooftop refugees plead for water in flooded Peru city

Mar 21, 2017 (AFP)

Stranded on their rooftops by flooding and mudslides, residents of Huarmey, Peru ironically need the one thing they see everywhere they look: water. As AFP tour...

More rain looms as Peru struggles with disastrous floods

Mar 19, 2017 (AFP)

Peruvians struggled on Sunday to cope with avalanches, mudslides and extensive flash flooding caused by torrential downpours, and forecasters predicted still mo...

Flash floods take dramatic toll in Lima and northern Peru

Mar 18, 2017 (AFP)

Flash floods and landslides hit parts of Lima, leaving some communities cut off from roads Saturday, as others in Peru fled rising rivers, and millions fretted ...

Dissection of the 2015 Bonin deep earthquake

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers at Tohoku University's Department of Geophysics, have been studying the deep earthquake which occurred on May 30, 2015, to the west of Japan's Bonin...

BBC team among injured in Etna volcano drama

Mar 16, 2017 (AFP)

Ten people were injured by flying rock and lava after Mount Etna, Europe's biggest active volcano, burst into life on Thursday, according to a BBC journalist an...

CRUST adds new layer of defense against earthquakes and tsunamis

Mar 15, 2017 (SPX)

The first computer model to simulate the whole chain of events triggered by offshore mega subduction earthquakes could reduce losses to life and property caused...

Madagascar cyclone deaths rise to 78, 400,000 affected

Mar 14, 2017 (AFP)

A cyclone that slammed into Madagascar last week killed 78 people and affected 400,000, the authorities said on Tuesday as they classed the event a national dis...

Volcano breath: Measuring sulfur dioxide from space

Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)

Volcanoes erupt, they spew ash, their scarred flanks sometimes run with both lava and landslides. But only occasionally. A less dramatic but important process i...

Japan recalls tsunami, nuclear tragedy six years on

Mar 11, 2017 (AFP)

Japan paused Saturday to mark six years since a deadly earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster devastated a wide swathe of its northeastern coast as more than ...

Cyclone kills 50, affects 176,000 in Madagascar

Mar 11, 2017 (AFP)

Cyclone Enawo killed at least 50 people and affected 176,000 people after it hit Madagascar earlier this week, the national disaster management agency said Satu...

10,000 displaced as cyclone pounds Madagascar

Mar 09, 2017 (AFP)

More than 10,000 Madagascans have been forced out of their homes over the past 48 hours as tropical cyclone Enawo battered the island, with the death toll risin...

Cyclone kills four, heading towards Madagascar capital

Mar 08, 2017 (AFP)

At least four people have been killed by tropical cyclone Enawo in Madagascar, the prime minister said Wednesday, as the storm tracked towards the capital Antan...

Three killed as cyclone Enawo batters Madagascar

Mar 07, 2017 (AFP)

Tropical cyclone Enawo slammed into Madagascar on Tuesday, killing three people and displacing hundreds as it buffeted the island with hurricane-force winds and...

Southern California fault systems capable of magnitude 7.3 earthquakes

Mar 07, 2017 (UPI)

New analysis of coastal fault systems in Southern California suggest the region is capable of a magnitude 7.3 earthquake. Until now, scientists thought the Newp...

Powerful aftershock hits quake-stricken Philippine city

Mar 05, 2017 (AFP)

One person was killed and 41 injured on Sunday when a powerful aftershock hit a southern Philippine city still recovering from a quake last month, authorities s...

Zimbabwe seeks aid after floods kill over 240 in 3 months

Mar 03, 2017 (AFP)

At least 246 people have been killed by floods in Zimbabwe since December, state media reported Friday, as the government launched an appeal for foreign aid. Th...

New USGS Maps Identify Potential Ground-Shaking Hazards in 2017

Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)

New USGS maps identify potential ground-shaking hazards in 2017 from both human-induced and natural earthquakes in the central and eastern U.S., known as the CE...

After year of calm, Mt Etna bursts into life

Mar 01, 2017 (AFP)

Mount Etna, the famous Sicilian volcano, has erupted for the first time in more than year. The highest volcano in Europe burst into life on Monday evening and c...

Study targets warm water rings that fuel hurricane intensification

Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)

Last year's devastating category-5 hurricane - Matthew - may be one of many past examples of a tropical storm fueled by massive rings of warm water that exist i...

Water slowly restored in Chile capital after deadly floods

Feb 27, 2017 (AFP)

The Chilean authorities worked Monday to restore water to some 4.5 million people in the capital Santiago, whose supply had to be cut after deadly floods contam...