SHAKE AND BLOW

News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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'Boulders size of vans' hit Nepal trekking village after quake
May 05, 2015 (AFP)
A trekker stranded for days in quake-hit Nepal has said he watched boulders the size of minivans smash buildings in a popular tourist area devastated by a massi...
Strong quake in New Zealand, no damage reported
May 04, 2015 (AFP)
A strong 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit New Zealand's South Island on Monday with local authorities saying it shook buildings but caused no serious damage. The tr...
Quake-devastated Nepal toll to climb 'much higher'
May 03, 2015 (AFP)
The death toll from an earthquake that ripped through Nepal will climb "much higher", the government warned Sunday, as relief teams raced to reach survivors of ...
Death toll rises to six in Australian floods
May 03, 2015 (AFP)
The death toll from heavy rains that inundated Australia's east coast has climbed to six, as flood warnings continued Sunday following a severe deluge that cut ...
Nepal's rich cultural heritage devastated by quake
May 02, 2015 (AFP)
Sujan Shrestha says it breaks his heart to look at the piles of rubble that are all that remain of the ancient Nepalese temples where he has worshipped all his ...
Minor tsunami warning issued after quake in south of Tokyo
May 02, 2015 (AFP)
The Japanese meteorology agency issued a tsunami warning early Sunday following a magnitude 5.9 quake in the Pacific south of Tokyo. The quake hit near Torishim...
Five swept away in Australian floods
May 02, 2015 (AFP)
Five people have been swept to their deaths by flash flooding in northeastern Australia, officials said Saturday, after what the Queensland state premier descri...
Sea-floor sensors detect possible volcanic eruption
May 01, 2015 (UPI)
Just a year ago, a deep sea volcanic eruption might have gone unnoticed (at least, initially). Most everything that happens 300 miles offshore and a mile beneat...
How cracking explains underwater volcanoes and the Hawaiian bend
May 01, 2015 (SPX)
University of Sydney geoscientists have helped prove that some of the ocean's underwater volcanoes did not erupt from hot spots in the Earth's mantle but instea...
'Almost total devastation' near Nepal quake epicentre: Red Cross
Apr 30, 2015 (AFP)
The Red Cross warned Thursday that nearly all homes had been wiped out in some towns and villages near the epicentre of Nepal's devastating earthquake. The Inte...
Geothermal energy, aluto volcano, and Ethiopia's rift valley
Apr 30, 2015 (SPX)
In their open access paper published in Geosphere this month, William Hutchison and colleagues present new data from Ethiopia's Rift Valley and Aluto volcano, a...
Chile's Calbuco volcano erupts for third time
Apr 30, 2015 (AFP)
Southern Chile's Calbuco volcano erupted again Thursday, releasing a large column of smoke in a towering arc, just over a week after it spectacularly roared to ...
Enhancing earthquake early warning in the Pacific Northwest
Apr 29, 2015 (SPX)
Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) systems depend on speed and accuracy in delivering seismic monitoring data to areas at risk from a quake or volcanic eruption. Pa...
More Americans at risk from strong earthquakes
Apr 29, 2015 (SPX)
More than 143 million Americans living in the 48 contiguous states are exposed to potentially damaging ground shaking from earthquakes, with as many as 28 milli...
The 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake - felt from space
Apr 29, 2015 (SPX)
For the first time, a natural source of infrasonic waves of Earth has been measured directly from space--450 kilometers above the planet's surface. The source w...
'She was my everything': Tragic end to Nepal quake rescue
Apr 27, 2015 (AFP)
As he watched Nepalese police rescuers finally pull the lifeless body of his 14-year-old daughter from the rubble of their home, Dayaram Mohat collapsed on the ...
Scientists see deeper Yellowstone magma
Apr 27, 2015 (SPX)
University of Utah seismologists discovered and made images of a reservoir of hot, partly molten rock 12 to 28 miles beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano, and i...
Nepalis spend third night in open as quake toll passes 4,000
Apr 27, 2015 (AFP)
Hundreds of thousands of Nepalis spent another night in the open Monday after a massive quake which killed more than 4,000, as officials warned the final toll c...
Chile volcano eruption costs region $600 mn: official
Apr 27, 2015 (AFP)
Last week's spectacular twin eruptions of the Calbuco volcano will cost southern Chile's Los Lagos region, a tourism and agriculture hub, up to $600 million, a ...
Catalina Island's slow sink - and potential tsunami hazard
Apr 27, 2015 (SPX)
New images of ancient, underwater beach terraces around Santa Catalina Island suggest that the island is sinking, probably as a result of changes in the active ...
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