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Candles, prayers and tears as Asia mourns tsunami dead 10 years on
Dec 26, 2014 (AFP)
Tearful mourners lit candles on Friday to remember the 220,000 people who died a decade ago when tsunami waves devastated coastal areas along the Indian Ocean, ...
Ash from Guatemala volcanoes prompts flight warning
Dec 26, 2014 (AFP)
Ash clouds from two active volcanoes in Guatemala prompted local air travel warnings Friday. The country's National Institute of Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteor...
As world honours the dead, Indonesia begins tsunami memorials
Dec 25, 2014 (AFP)
Thousands of people held a memorial Thursday in Indonesia's Aceh province, the epicentre of the Indian Ocean tsunami, as the world prepared to mark a decade sin...
Tourists stranded as monsoon floods hit Malaysian jungle
Dec 24, 2014 (AFP)
Malaysian authorities launched a major rescue operation Wednesday to evacuate tourists stranded at a resort by heavy monsoon flooding that has forced tens of th...
10 years on, lessons of Asian tsunami hit by 'disaster amnesia'
Dec 23, 2014 (AFP)
Ten years after the deadliest tsunami on record wrought destruction across the Indian Ocean, creeping complacency is undermining a hi-tech warning system design...
New, tighter timeline confirms ancient volcanism aligned with dinosaurs' extinction
Dec 23, 2014 (SPX)
A definitive geological timeline shows that a series of massive volcanic explosions 66 million years ago spewed enormous amounts of climate-altering gases into ...
Tsunami orphans recount journey to philanthropy
Dec 23, 2014 (AFP)
A decade after being orphaned by the Asian tsunami, British brothers Rob and Paul Forkan are successful entrepreneurs who are giving back to the Sri Lankans who...
Yellowstone's colorful geothermal pools used to be plain blue
Dec 22, 2014 (UPI)
Just 150 years ago, Yellowstone's magnificent geothermal pools were likely a plain blue hue -- not a reflective canvas of rainbow colors. In a new study, publis...
Tsunami-ravaged Aceh rises rapidly from the ruins
Dec 22, 2014 (AFP)
Rows of new houses and beautiful mosques with glittering minarets give little clue that the sleepy Indonesian fishing town of Meulaboh was the ground zero of th...
Myanmar migrants haunted by memory of tsunami missing in Thailand
Dec 21, 2014 (AFP)
A decade after towering waves wrenched her newborn baby from her arms, Mi Htay remains haunted by memories of the children she lost in the tsunami whose bodies,...
A series of tremors has Florence concerned for its 'David'
Dec 20, 2014 (AFP)
More than 250 minor tremors have rattled the Florence region over the past three days, sparking alarm in Italy over the safety of Michelangelo's "David" statue....
Scientists make strides in tsunami warning
Dec 19, 2014 (AFP)
The 2004 tsunami led to greater global cooperation and improved techniques for detecting waves that could reach faraway shores, even though scientists still can...
New families give Asian tsunami survivors chance of second life
Dec 18, 2014 (AFP)
Rusli Abdul Rahman and Fardhiah had been neighbours for years when the Asian tsunami devastated their small community in Indonesia's Aceh, killing both their sp...
Earth grows a new layer under an Icelandic volcano
Dec 17, 2014 (SPX)
New research into an Icelandic eruption has shed light on how the Earth's crust forms, according to a paper published in Nature. When the Baroarbunga volcano, w...
Volcanic eruption in Cape Verde destroys villages
Dec 16, 2014 (AFP)
The biggest eruption of Cape Verde volcano Pico do Fogo in decades has destroyed two villages and threatens a forest reserve Tuesday, officials said. Some 1,500...
Thai sea gypsies embrace modern life after tsunami
Dec 16, 2014 (AFP)
As he gently lowers a fishing net into an azure lagoon, Saponkit Klatalay concedes he no longer roams the waters for days and nights like generations of sea gyp...
NASA Satellite Data Shows Hagupit Dropped Almost 19 Inches of Rainfall
Dec 15, 2014 (SPX)
Typhoon Hagupit soaked the Philippines, and a NASA rainfall analysis indicated the storm dropped almost 19 inches in some areas. After Hagupit departed the Phil...
Destructive tsunami also brought peace to conflict-riven Aceh
Dec 14, 2014 (AFP)
When a tsunami engulfed Indonesia's Aceh a decade ago, it not only killed tens of thousands of people but also wiped the slate clean in the conflict-racked, pov...
Heavy flooding brings chaos to Sao Paulo
Dec 10, 2014 (AFP)
Brazilian megalopolis Sao Paulo saw violent storms and heavy rains Wednesday, causing flooding and traffic chaos as authorities announced a state of alert in so...
Re-thinking Southern California earthquake scenarios
Dec 10, 2014 (SPX)
New three-dimensional (3D) numerical modeling that captures far more geometric complexity of an active fault segment in southern California than any other, sugg...
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