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News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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Quake in China's Tibet kills 95 with tremors felt in Nepal, India
Jan 07, 2025 (AFP)
Videos published by China's state broadcaster CCTV showed houses destroyed with walls torn apart. Rescue workers waded through rubble strewn across the ruins in...
Series of Ethiopia earthquakes trigger evacuations
Jan 04, 2025 (AFP)
The quakes were centred on the largely rural Afar, Oromia and Amhara regions after months of intense seismic activity. No casualties have been reported so far. ...
Number of cyclones not increasing, but intensity is, data shows
Dec 31, 2024 (AFP)
Since 1980 there have been an annual average of 47 tropical cyclones -- also called hurricanes and typhoons -- according to the database agencies recognised by ...
Moroccan activists tried over earthquake response criticism: lawyer
Dec 30, 2024 (AFP)
Said Ait Mahdi, the head of Al Haouz Earthquake Victims Coordination, was brought before a Marrakesh court "on allegations of defamation, insult and spreading f...
A fearful New Year in temporary homes after Japan quake
Dec 30, 2024 (AFP)
But a year after a 7.5-magnitude quake and its aftershocks devastated the region, she lives in a small temporary unit with her husband and daughter, facing an u...
Tens of thousands protest over Spain flood response
Dec 29, 2024 (AFP)
The October 29 tragedy killed 231 people and devastated swathes of the eastern Valencia region, leaving thousands of victims to spend Christmas without loved on...
Tears, prayers as Asia mourns tsunami dead 20 years on
Dec 26, 2024 (AFP)
A 9.1-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia's western tip on December 26, 2004, generated a series of waves as high as 30 metres (98 feet) that pummelled the coast...
Turkey court jails hotel owner, architect in quake trial
Dec 25, 2024 (AFP)
The dead included 26 members of a school volleyball team from northern Cyprus. The Grand Isias Hotel in Adiyaman crumbled after the February 2023 quake that cla...
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupts, spewing columns of lava
Dec 24, 2024 (AFP)
Images showed enormous fissures in the caldera of Kilauea, on Hawaii's Big Island, spraying jets of molten rock into the air. The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observat...
The tsunami detection buoys safeguarding lives in Thailand
Dec 24, 2024 (AFP)
On December 26, 2004, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered a huge tsunami with waves up to 30 metres (100 feet) high. Only a rudimentary ...
Mayotte cyclone likely to have killed 'dozens' not '1000s'; Mozambique death toll rises to 120
Dec 23, 2024 (AFP)
"I think that it'll be in the dozens and not in the thousands," he told BFMTV. "I think the alarmist and sometimes terrifying figures that have been put forward...
Large earthquake hits battered Vanuatu
Dec 22, 2024 (AFP)
The nation's most populous island, Efate, is still reeling from the deadly 7.3-magnitude temblor on Tuesday, which toppled concrete buildings and set off landsl...
Death toll from Cyclone Chido rises to 76 in Mozambique
Dec 21, 2024 (AFP)
Chido made landfall in Mozambique on Sunday after tearing through the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte where hundreds of people are feared to have been killed. Th...
Vanuatu reopening to commercial flights, quake toll hits 12
Dec 21, 2024 (AFP)
The 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the main island on Tuesday, toppling concrete buildings in the capital Port Vila and setting off landslides. It damaged ...
Rescuers extend search for Vanuatu quake survivors
Dec 20, 2024 (AFP)
The 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the main island on Tuesday, toppling concrete buildings in Port Vila and setting off landslides. It has damaged water su...
France's Macron in cyclone-hit Mayotte to assess devastation
Dec 19, 2024 (AFP)
His visit to the French overseas territory comes after Paris declared "exceptional natural disaster" measures for Mayotte late Wednesday night to enable swifter...
Loss and redemption: tsunami survivors and the sea
Dec 19, 2024 (AFP)
Each morning the fisherman sets out from Bang Wa district in his red and yellow boat, selling his catch at the local market in southern Thailand. For tsunami su...
Cyclone Chido death toll in Mozambique rises to 73
Dec 19, 2024 (AFP)
Chido made landfall in Mozambique on Sunday after tearing through the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte where hundreds and possibly thousands of people are feared ...
France races to find survivors in cyclone-hit Mayotte
Dec 19, 2024 (AFP)
The "exceptional" measures, announced by French overseas minister Francois-Noel Buffet late Wednesday on social media platform X, will ensure "faster and more e...
Rescuers fly in to join search for Vanuatu quake survivors
Dec 19, 2024 (AFP)
More than 100 personnel, along with rescue gear, dogs and aid supplies, are being flown on military transport planes from Australia and New Zealand to the stric...
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