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Japan's tsunami: Five things after five years
Mar 11, 2016 (AFP)
Japan on Friday marked five years since an enormous 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck, unleashing a towering tsunami that levelled communities along Japan's north...
Heavy rain kills six in Oman, UAE: media
Mar 10, 2016 (AFP)
Torrential rain in northern Oman and the United Arab Emirates has killed six people this week, local media reported Thursday. Omani police on Thursday found one...
Why Hurricane Irene fizzled as it neared New Jersey in 2011
Mar 09, 2016 (SPX)
A dynamic process that cools the coastal ocean and can weaken hurricanes was discovered as Hurricane Irene made landfall in New Jersey, according to a Rutgers U...
Five years on, Japan tsunami scars visible and invisible
Mar 08, 2016 (AFP)
The eye in the sky tells the story: satellite imagery from Japan's tsunami-ravaged Pacific coast shows the catastrophic aftermath of vibrant communities destroy...
How rivers of hot ash and gas move when a supervolcano erupts
Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)
Supervolcanoes capable of unleashing hundreds of times the amount of magma that was expelled during the Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980 are found in populated...
Shipwrecks, tree rings reveal Caribbean hurricanes in buccaneer era
Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)
Records of Spanish shipwrecks combined with tree-ring records show the period 1645 to 1715 had the fewest Caribbean hurricanes since 1500, according to new Univ...
The maximum earthquake magnitude for North Turkey
Mar 07, 2016 (SPX)
Geoscientists and natural disaster management experts are well aware of the risk prevailing in the megacity of Istanbul: The Istanbul metropolitan region faces ...
Indonesian tsunami warning buoys not working when quake hit
Mar 03, 2016 (AFP)
A series of early-warning buoys deployed after a 2004 tsunami devastated parts of Indonesia's western Sumatra island were not working when a huge quake rocked t...
Guatemala on alert as volcano spews ash over vast area
Mar 02, 2016 (AFP)
Guatemalan authorities issued a warning Wednesday as the country's Fuego volcano, located near the capital, spewed ash into the air. A spokesman for the country...
Powerful quake in western in Indonesia sparks panic
Mar 02, 2016 (AFP)
A powerful and shallow earthquake struck Wednesday off Indonesia's Sumatra island, sending panicked residents rushing from their homes in a region hit hard by q...
How to make a tiny volcanic island
Mar 01, 2016 (SPX)
On Nov. 20, 2013, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force discovered a small islet near Nishinoshima volcano, Ogasawara Islands, Japan. The exact date of the init...
New theory of deep-ocean sound waves may aid tsunami detection
Mar 01, 2016 (SPX)
Acoustic-gravity waves are very long sound waves that cut through the deep ocean at the speed of sound. These lightning-quick currents can sweep up water, nutri...
Philippines affected by more extreme tropical cyclones
Mar 01, 2016 (SPX)
Tropical cyclones in the Philippines are becoming more extreme and causing greater amounts of devastation, a new study has shown. Geographers from the Universit...
One dead, four missing as flooding hits Haiti
Feb 29, 2016 (AFP)
One person died and four others were missing in flooding that hit Haiti, leaving at least 9,600 houses in the deeply impoverished Caribbean country under water,...
Fiji eyes more cyclone aid as toll hits 44
Feb 25, 2016 (AFP)
Cyclone-devastated Fiji said it was likely to need more foreign aid Thursday as the body count from the most powerful storm in its history climbed to 44. France...
Fiji cyclone death toll rises to 42: official
Feb 24, 2016 (AFP)
The death toll from the Fiji super-cyclone hit 42 on Wednesday, officials said, with fears it will rise further as relief teams reach isolated communities. "42 ...
Cyclone death toll hits 29 as Fiji eyes long clean-up
Feb 23, 2016 (AFP)
Humanitarian aid began pouring into Fiji Tuesday, as the death toll from super-cyclone Winston rose to 29 and officials warned the devastated Pacific nation's r...
Christchurch commemorates devastating quake
Feb 22, 2016 (AFP)
The New Zealand city of Christchurch came to a standstill Monday to mark the fifth anniversary of a devastating earthquake that left 185 dead, amid anger about ...
Moderate 5.9 magnitude quake hits NW Pakistan
Feb 21, 2016 (AFP)
A moderate 5.9-magnitude earthquake shook northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, with tremors felt in different cities, but officials said there were no immediate rep...
Death toll rises as Fiji cleans up after 'strongest ever' cyclone
Feb 21, 2016 (AFP)
Fiji began a massive clean-up on Sunday after the most powerful cyclone in the Pacific nation's history left a trail of destruction, killing six people, flatten...
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