SHAKE AND BLOW

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NASA Scientists Explain the Art of Creating Digital Hurricanes
May 26, 2016 (SPX)
Every day, scientists at NASA work on creating better hurricanes - on a computer screen. At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a team of...
Sri Lanka rain death toll hits 101 as waters recede
May 24, 2016 (AFP)
Floods subsided across Sri Lanka Tuesday revealing the full extent of damage from last week's deluge that also triggered landslides, officials said, as the deat...
Villages in ashes after deadly Indonesia volcano eruption
May 23, 2016 (AFP)
Indonesian rescuers searched for survivors in scorched villages and devastated farmlands Monday after a volcano erupted in clouds of searing ash and gas, killin...
Flood-hit Sri Lankans face uncertain future
May 23, 2016 (AFP)
Sri Lankans camped out in shelters in the capital face an uncertain future after massive flooding from torrential rain struck the island, forcing them to flee t...
Thousands homeless in cyclone-hit Bangladesh
May 22, 2016 (AFP)
Thousands of Bangladeshis were left homeless on Sunday after Cyclone Roanu battered the impoverished southern coastal region, ripping apart flimsy houses and ki...
Flood-hit Sri Lanka pulls more bodies from landslides
May 22, 2016 (AFP)
Sri Lankan soldiers pulled more bodies from landslides and distributed food and water Sunday to hundreds of thousands forced into shelters after major floods hi...
New study finds major earthquake
May 20, 2016 (SPX)
New geologic mapping in the Himalayan mountains of Kashmir between Pakistan and India suggests that the region is ripe for a major earthquake that could endange...
Bubble volcano: Shaking, popping by earthquakes may cause eruptions
May 19, 2016 (SPX)
A new study on the connection between earthquakes and volcanoes took its inspiration from old engineering basics. Future applications of these results may enabl...
One dead as aftershocks shake quake-weary Ecuador
May 18, 2016 (AFP)
Two strong aftershocks killed one person and injured 85 Wednesday as they shook Ecuador a month after a devastating earthquake left some 700 dead, President Raf...
Sri Lanka president flies to flood-hit area, toll hits 37
May 18, 2016 (AFP)
Sri Lanka's president mourned the island's "devastating loss" Wednesday as the death toll from three days of torrential rain and landslides rose to 37, with mor...
Sri Lanka flood toll hits 11, thousands more homeless
May 17, 2016 (AFP)
Emergency workers in Sri Lanka on Tuesday found the bodies of a woman and two children killed in a landslide, taking the toll from two days of heavy rain to 11,...
New research estimates probability of mega-earthquake in the Aleutians
May 17, 2016 (SPX)
A team of researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UHM) published a study this week that estimated the probability of a Magnitude 9+ earthquake in t...
Disaster tourism: bitter lifeline for mud volcano survivors
May 17, 2016 (AFP)
Harwati forces a smile as she guides visitors around a bubbling mud volcano in Indonesia, pausing as they snap selfies on the bleak wasteland she once called ho...
Sri Lanka floods kill eight, leave thousands homeless
May 16, 2016 (AFP)
Floods and landslides in Sri Lanka have killed at least eight people, including a 10-month-old baby, and forced tens of thousands more to flee their homes, offi...
Over a dozen people killed in Uganda landslides
May 10, 2016 (AFP)
About 15 people were killed and dozens injured on Tuesday in landslides triggered by torrential downpours in hilly western Uganda, local authorities said. Bridg...
World's shallowest slow-motion earthquakes detected offshore of NZ
May 09, 2016 (SPX)
Research published in the May 6 edition of Science indicates that slow-motion earthquakes or "slow-slip events" can rupture the shallow portion of a fault that ...
Landslides kill nearly 50 in Rwanda
May 09, 2016 (AFP)
At least 49 people were killed this weekend in landslides caused by torrential rains in rural Rwanda, the government said on Monday. Authorities had previously ...
Floods following drought worsen Ethiopian hunger
May 04, 2016 (AFP)
Stuck on a track in eastern Ethiopia, trucks carrying food for the starving are forced to turn back. After one of the worst droughts for decades, the rains have...
Survivor rescued 13 days after deadly Ecuador quake
May 01, 2016 (AFP)
Crews have rescued a 72-year-old survivor of Ecuador's deadly earthquake almost two weeks after it struck the South American country, Venezuela announced Saturd...
Survivors sought after 10 killed in Kenya building collapse
Apr 30, 2016 (AFP)
Kenyan rescuers scrambled Saturday to free survivors including a woman and child detected trapped in a collapsed building in Nairobi, amid torrential storms tha...
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