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Rescuers scramble for survivors after deadly quake hits Japan
Apr 15, 2016 (AFP)
Rescuers were rifling through the remains of collapsed buildings in southern Japan on Friday, after a powerful earthquake left at least nine people dead and inj...
Japan plants shut down after quake, fuels economic fears
Apr 15, 2016 (AFP)
Some of Japan's biggest firms including Sony and Toyota shut down operations in southern Japan Friday after the region's deadly earthquake, but analysts said wh...
Downpour kills more than 40 in Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Apr 14, 2016 (AFP)
Heavy storms have claimed the lives of at least 42 people over the past week in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, officials in the two neighbouring states said Thursday. ...
Magnitude 6.9 quake hits northern Myanmar
Apr 13, 2016 (AFP)
Myanmar was struck by a magnitude 6.9 quake on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey reported, with tremors felt around the region, including in neighbouring Indi...
Traffic chaos, schools shut as Riyadh hit by rare flooding
Apr 13, 2016 (AFP)
Traffic backed up and schools were shut in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Wednesday after the desert city was struck by a rare severe storm that sparked flooding. ...
Death toll from South Asian quake rises to 6: officials
Apr 11, 2016 (AFP)
At least six Pakistanis were killed when a powerful earthquake rocked parts of South Asia on Sunday, officials said. Five people died in various remote regions ...
Powerful quake rocks South Asia, one dead
Apr 10, 2016 (AFP)
A powerful earthquake rocked large parts of South Asia Sunday, with one person killed by falling rocks in Pakistan and tremors felt in at least four countries. ...
Slow fault movements may indicate impending earthquakes
Apr 07, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) at its Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) have discovered a way to forecast earthquakes based...
Fiji 'spared' as cyclone weakens
Apr 07, 2016 (AFP)
Fiji lifted emergency restrictions Thursday after the Pacific nation avoided a direct hit from Tropical Cyclone Zena and the storm weakened as it moved offshore...
Fiji residents ordered to stay inside as cyclone looms
Apr 06, 2016 (AFP)
Authorities in Fiji ordered people to stay inside as a tropical cyclone bore down on the Pacific tourist destination Wednesday, taking no chances after a recent...
Pakistan searches for 23 people trapped by landslides
Apr 06, 2016 (AFP)
Pakistani rescuers were struggling Wednesday to reach 23 people buried by a landslide in the north after heavy rains on the weekend that authorities said have k...
Alaska researchers improve their 'hearing' to detect volcanic eruptions
Apr 05, 2016 (SPX)
If a volcano explodes in the remote reaches of Alaska, will anyone hear it? Seismologists working in the state say yes--after using a refined set of methods tha...
GOES-R satellite could provide better data for hurricane prediction
Apr 04, 2016 (SPX)
The launch of the GOES-R geostationary satellite in October 2016 could herald a new era for predicting hurricanes, according to Penn State researchers. The weal...
Rescuers race to reach thousands stranded by rains in Pakistan
Apr 04, 2016 (AFP)
Rescuers were battling Monday to reach thousands of people stranded by floods and landslides in Pakistan's northwest and parts of Kashmir, officials said, as th...
Researchers reproduce mechanism of slow earthquakes
Apr 01, 2016 (SPX)
Up until now catching lightning in a bottle has been easier than reproducing a range of earthquakes in the laboratory, according to a team of seismologists who ...
Ancient super-eruptions in Yellowstone much larger than expected
Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)
A number of giant super-eruptions between 8 and 12 million years ago that could be larger than the colossal eruptions known to have taken place at Yellowstone h...
Aviation and volcanic ash
Mar 22, 2016 (SPX)
Volcanic ash can damage jet engines, and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich volcanologists have developed a new empirical model for assessment of t...
Wetland enhancement in Midwest could help reduce catastrophic floods of the future
Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)
According to a new study from Oregon State University, restoration of wetlands in the Midwest has the potential to significantly reduce peak river flows during ...
Pakistan rains leave 42 dead: officials
Mar 14, 2016 (AFP)
The death toll from torrential rain that has lashed Pakistan for the past five days has risen to 42, authorities said Monday, with collapsed roofs blamed for th...
Pakistan rains leave 28 dead: officials
Mar 13, 2016 (AFP)
The death toll from torrential rain in Pakistan rose to 28 on Sunday after more homes collapsed in the southwest and northwest, officials said. They said 17 peo...
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