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Chile ordered to pay $2.7 mn to 2010 tsunami victims
Apr 28, 2016 (AFP)
A Chilean court ordered the government Thursday to pay $2.7 million to the families of 20 people killed by a devastating tsunami in 2010. The court ruled the go...
Accounting for volcanoes using tools of economics
Apr 27, 2016 (SPX)
When Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it spewed dust and sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere with a force more powerful than any eruption since. As the aerosol...
Seismologists ask: How close are we to an eruption?
Apr 27, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists analyzing the data from seismic networks are becoming better at detecting volcanic activity and at depicting the source and structure of the "plumbin...
Volcanoes tied to shifts in Earth's climate over millions of years
Apr 27, 2016 (SPX)
A new study in the April 22 edition of Science reveals that volcanic activity associated with the plate-tectonic movement of continents may be responsible for c...
Preparations for a US west coast tsunami look to the past and future
Apr 26, 2016 (SPX)
After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and devastating tsunami in Japan, states such as California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska are looking to both the past and the...
Two volcanoes trigger crises of the late antiquity
Apr 25, 2016 (SPX)
Contemporary chroniclers wrote about a "mystery cloud" which dimmed the light of the sun above the Mediterranean in the years 536 and 537 CE. Tree rings testify...
New aftershocks jolt Ecuador still reeling from quake
Apr 23, 2016 (AFP)
New aftershocks rattled Ecuador on Friday and hopes of finding survivors in the rubble all but evaporated, nearly a week after a huge earthquake that killed mor...
Ecuador quake death toll jumps to 646, one week on
Apr 23, 2016 (AFP)
Nearly 650 people are now known to have died in the strong earthquake that hit Ecuador one week ago, President Rafael Correa said Saturday, as the toll jumped y...
New quake rattles jittery Ecuador
Apr 21, 2016 (AFP)
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Ecuador on Wednesday, sowing new panic four days after a powerful quake killed more than 500 people and injur...
Southern Africa drought triggers DR Congo food shortage
Apr 21, 2016 (AFP)
Children are going to bed hungry in DR Congo's second city, their parents say, as food shortages caused by a severe drought in southern Africa drive up prices. ...
Did volcano eruptions tip Europe into Dark Ages?
Apr 20, 2016 (AFP)
Back-to-back volcanic eruptions in the mid-6th century darkened Europe's skies for more than a year and may have ushered in the Dark Ages, according to finding ...
South American floods kill 12, force mass evacuations
Apr 20, 2016 (AFP)
Severe storms and flooding across South America's "southern cone" have killed at least 12 people and forced thousands to evacuate, with more bad weather on the ...
Record Balkan floods linked to jamming of giant airstreams
Apr 20, 2016 (SPX)
Disastrous floods in the Balkans two years ago are likely linked to the temporary slowdown of giant airstreams, scientists found. These wind patterns, circling ...
The cozier the better for bubbles inside powerful volcanoes
Apr 20, 2016 (SPX)
How did the eruptions of Katmai, Taupo and Santorini grow into a massive blast that spewed fine ash, sulfur and crystal-poor magma into the atmosphere? New rese...
Texas floods kill at least five: report
Apr 19, 2016 (AFP)
Flooding in and around the US city of Houston has killed at least five people and prompted mass rescues, reports said. With rain wreaking havoc in the Texas cit...
Mexico volcano spits ash on towns
Apr 18, 2016 (AFP)
The huge Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City spat burning ash over nearby towns on Monday and forced the closure of an airport, officials said. The giant crat...
Japanese map tracks the last moments of the victims of 2011 tsunami
Apr 18, 2016 (SPX)
The laboratory of Hidenori Watanave in the Faculty of System Design at Tokyo Metropolitan University and Iwate Nippo Co., Ltd have put together a digital archiv...
Bubbles lead to disaster
Apr 18, 2016 (SPX)
In 1816, summer failed to make an appearance in central Europe and people were starving. Just a year earlier, the Tambora volcano had erupted in Indonesia, spew...
Rescuers race against landslides to reach Japan quake victims
Apr 17, 2016 (AFP)
The US military was set to join Japanese rescuers Sunday racing against the threat of more landslides to reach people still trapped by two big earthquakes. At l...
Powerful Ecuador quake kills at least 77
Apr 17, 2016 (AFP)
At least 77 people were killed when a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador, destroying buildings and a bridge and sending terrified residents dashin...
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