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Powerful quake rocks South Asia, 70 dead
Oct 26, 2015 (AFP)
A powerful 7.5 magnitude killed at least 70 people as it rocked south Asia on Monday, including 12 Afghan girls who were crushed to death in a stampede as they ...
Powerful quake rocks South Asia, more than 160 dead
Oct 26, 2015 (AFP)
A powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake which rocked parts of South Asia killed more than 160 people Monday, including 12 Afghan girls crushed in a stampede as they...
5 dead as heavy rains pound Egypt's Alexandria
Oct 25, 2015 (AFP)
Torrential rains lashed Egypt's Mediterranean city of Alexandria Sunday, killing five people, including two children and the captain of a ship who was trapped i...
How did Mexico dodge the Hurricane Patricia bullet?
Oct 25, 2015 (AFP)
Mexico dodged a bullet when monster Hurricane Patricia failed to live up to its threat of devastating huge swaths of the country. What saved Mexicans? Experts s...
Hurricane flattens Mexico homes, but no major disaster
Oct 25, 2015 (AFP)
Patricia flattened a fishing hamlet on Mexico's Pacific coast, but authorities were relieved to see Saturday that the record-breaking hurricane largely spared t...
Hurricane flattens Mexico homes, but major disaster averted
Oct 24, 2015 (AFP)
Patricia flattened dozens of homes on Mexico's Pacific coast, but authorities said Saturday the record-breaking hurricane largely spared the country and weakene...
USGS questions study's alarming LA earthquake prediction
Oct 22, 2015 (UPI)
A scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey is questioning the soundness of an alarming study authored by a NASA scientist. The study -- published last month in t...
NASA Study Improves Understanding of LA Quake Risks
Oct 22, 2015 (JPL)
A new NASA-led analysis of a moderate magnitude 5.1 earthquake that shook Greater Los Angeles in 2014 finds that the earthquake deformed Earth's crust across a ...
Patricia grows into major hurricane threatening Mexico
Oct 22, 2015 (AFP)
Fast-moving Patricia grew into an "extremely dangerous" major hurricane off Mexico's Pacific coast on Thursday, forecasters said, warning of possible landslides...
Philippine floods ease but typhoon death toll hits 47
Oct 21, 2015 (AFP)
Widespread flooding in the Philippines caused by a powerful typhoon eased on Wednesday but the storm's death toll climbed to 47 and tens of thousands of people ...
New 'geospeedometer' confirms super-eruptions have short fuses
Oct 21, 2015 (SPX)
Repeatedly throughout Earth's history, giant pools of magma greater than 100 cubic miles in volume have formed a few miles below the surface. They are the sourc...
Among China's most coveted govt jobs: earthquake monitor
Oct 21, 2015 (AFP)
Fancy a Chinese government job? How about the Inner Mongolia Seismological Bureau? If so, take your place behind more than 1,000 other applicants. The position ...
Flood misery in Philippines after typhoon kills 22
Oct 20, 2015 (AFP)
Head-high floodwaters churned across vast farming regions of the northern Philippines on Tuesday as heavy rain compounded the misery of a typhoon that killed at...
Typhoon kills at least 16 in Philippines, strands thousands
Oct 19, 2015 (AFP)
Residents of flooded farming villages in the Philippines were trapped on their rooftops on Monday and animals floated down fast-rising rivers, as the death toll...
Flooded residents on rooftops as Koppu pummels Philippines
Oct 19, 2015 (AFP)
Residents of flooded farming villages in the Philippines were trapped on their rooftops on Monday and animals floated down fast-rising rivers, as deadly Typhoon...
Thousands flee as Typhoon Koppu hits northern Philippines
Oct 18, 2015 (AFP)
Powerful Typhoon Koppu wrecked houses, tore down trees and unleashed landslides and floods, forcing thousands to flee as it pummelled the northern Philippines S...
Flood hazards: Vermont and Colorado as case studies
Oct 15, 2015 (SPX)
Catastrophic floods in 2011 in Vermont and 2013 in Colorado devastated many communities. While flood waters were the highest in recorded history, much of the da...
Volcanic eruptions affect flow of world's major rivers
Oct 08, 2015 (SPX)
Major volcanic eruptions can have a significant effect on the flow of the biggest rivers around the world, research shows. In the first study of its kind, scien...
Simulating path of 'magma mush' inside an active volcano
Oct 08, 2015 (SPX)
Months of warning signs from Mauna Loa, on Hawaii's Big Island, prompted the U.S. Geological Society to recently start releasing weekly updates on activity at t...
Ecuador volcano spews giant ash column
Oct 08, 2015 (AFP)
Ecuador's Cotopaxi volcano, which began erupting in August after being dormant for 138 years, on Thursday coughed up a two-kilometer-high column of ash, officia...
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