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Popcorn-rocks solve the mystery of the magma chambers
Nov 07, 2016 (SPX)
Since the 18th century, geologists have struggled to explain how big magma chambers form in the Earth's crust. In particular, it has been difficult to explain w...
CYGNSS Satellite Mission Aims to Improve Hurricane Forecasting
Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)
Technology has always progressed on waves of innovation. In the business of tropical system monitoring, a new set of satellites managed by NASA's Langley Resear...
50 years on, Florence recalls its 'Angels of the Mud'
Nov 02, 2016 (AFP)
Fifty years after the river Arno burst its banks with devastating consequences, Florence will this week remember the Angels of the Mud who came to save the Ital...
Italy counts homeless, heritage cost of quake
Oct 31, 2016 (AFP)
Italy's most powerful earthquake in 36 years has left more than 15,000 people homeless, authorities said Monday as the scale of the damage done to irreplacable ...
Egypt floods killed at least 22: new toll
Oct 30, 2016 (AFP)
At least 22 people were killed and 72 injured in flooding caused by torrential rains in Egypt, authorities said on Sunday, updating an earlier toll of 18 dead. ...
Hurricane Matthew damages in Haiti tally nearly $2 bn
Oct 29, 2016 (AFP)
Hurricane Matthew's devastating passage over southern Haiti on October 4 caused nearly $2 billion in damages, Haitian authorities announced Friday. Studies by t...
Italy's experts warn of more quakes
Oct 28, 2016 (AFP)
Italy's major risks commission cautioned Friday that there may be more powerful earthquakes to come following two this week in the country's mountainous centre ...
Italy in 'miraculous' earthquake escape
Oct 27, 2016 (AFP)
Italy on Thursday vowed to rebuild every home destroyed after two powerful earthquakes that forced thousands to flee in terror but "miraculously" did not cause ...
Enormous dome in central Andes driven by huge magma body beneath it
Oct 26, 2016 (SPX)
A new analysis of the topography of the central Andes shows the uplifting of the Earth's second highest continental plateau was driven in part by a huge zone of...
Japan court orders damages for pupils' tsunami deaths
Oct 26, 2016 (AFP)
A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered millions of dollars compensation be paid to families of children swept out to sea by a massive 2011 tsunami. The Sendai Di...
Strong twin quakes rock central Italy
Oct 26, 2016 (AFP)
Twin earthquakes rocked central Italy on Wednesday -- the second registering at a magnitude of 6.0 -- in the same region struck in August by a devastating tremo...
Coastal wetlands offer millions of dollars worth of hurricane protection
Oct 26, 2016 (UPI)
Healthy, intact coastal wetlands are like a free insurance policy. Hurricane flood protections offered by wetlands are worth millions of dollars, according to a...
The life cycle of a flood revealed
Oct 25, 2016 (JPL)
A NASA analysis of a 2015 Texas flood is the first to document the full life cycle and impacts of a flood on both land and ocean. Using data from NASA's Soil Mo...
5 dead as storm pounds hurricane-stricken Haiti
Oct 21, 2016 (AFP)
Five people were killed and one person was missing as torrential rains sparked flooding in Haiti, as the country still reels from devastating Hurricane Matthew,...
After the hurricane, cholera hits Haiti's suffering survivors
Oct 21, 2016 (AFP)
The rains inundating their ruined homes are no longer the biggest concern of the long-suffering people of Randelle: cholera is tearing through the isolated Hait...
Japan, Taiwan and New Zealand collaborate on seismic hazard models
Oct 21, 2016 (SPX)
In Japan, Taiwan and New Zealand, one of the largest driving forces behind earthquakes is the active convergence of tectonic plates at rates of four to eight ce...
Mt. Aso could erupt much sooner, scientists warn
Oct 21, 2016 (SPX)
Damage from the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake could hasten Mt. Aso's eruption, volcanologists warn. In a paper published on Science, Kyoto University researchers and...
Typhoon Haima batters Hong Kong as city in lockdown
Oct 21, 2016 (AFP)
The usually frenetic streets of Hong Kong were deserted Friday as the city was battered by Typhoon Haima after the storm left a trail of deaths and damage in th...
Typhoon survivors wait for aid in the Philippines
Oct 21, 2016 (AFP)
Hungry Philippine typhoon survivors huddled in makeshift shelters and waited for aid on Friday, after losing nearly everything from one of the most powerful sto...
Super typhoon kills at least eight in Philippines
Oct 20, 2016 (AFP)
One of the most powerful typhoons to ever hit the Philippines killed at least eight people on Thursday as ferocious gales and landslides destroyed tens of thous...
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