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Storm leaves Philippines after killing 27
Dec 09, 2014 (AFP)
A giant storm left the Philippines Tuesday after killing at least 27 people and devastating remote coastal towns, but the government won praise for unprecedente...
Typhoon tears down homes in disaster-weary Philippines
Dec 07, 2014 (AFP)
Typhoon Hagupit tore apart homes and sent waves crashing through coastal communities across the eastern Philippines on Sunday, creating more misery for millions...
Theory underlying the origin of mid-plate volcanoes challenged
Dec 05, 2014 (SPX)
A long-held assumption about the Earth is discussed in the latest edition of Science, as Don L. Anderson, an emeritus professor with the Seismological Laborator...
Ancient earthquake uncovered in China: Xinhua
Dec 05, 2014 (AFP)
Scientists have found evidence of a powerful earthquake 3,000 years ago in central China, apparently the earliest known tremor in the country's history, state m...
Millions evacuate as typhoon bears down on Philippines
Dec 05, 2014 (AFP)
Millions of people in the Philippines began seeking shelter in churches, schools and other makeshift evacuation centres on Friday as a monster typhoon bore down...
Super typhoon intensifies as it threatens Philippines
Dec 04, 2014 (AFP)
A super typhoon gained strength on Thursday as it tracked towards the Philippines, threatening more devastation for mostly poor communities where thousands of p...
Philippines disaster city braces for strong typhoon
Dec 03, 2014 (AFP)
Authorities in a Philippine city ravaged by Super Typhoon Haiyan were Wednesday faced with how to keep residents still living in tents after the 2013 disaster s...
UW team explores large, restless volcanic field in Chile
Dec 03, 2014 (SPX)
If Brad Singer knew for sure what was happening three miles under an odd-shaped lake in the Andes, he might be less eager to spend a good part of his career inv...
Powerful storm threatens typhoon-battered Philippines
Dec 03, 2014 (AFP)
Terrified survivors of a super typhoon that killed thousands in the Philippines last year were on Wednesday preparing for a powerful new storm, as authorities s...
More than 3,000 evacuated as French floods toll reaches five
Nov 30, 2014 (AFP)
The worst flooding in years in southern France has claimed five lives and forced more than 3,000 people to evacuate their homes, officials said Sunday. The late...
Four dead, three missing in French floods
Nov 28, 2014 (AFP)
Four people died and several were missing after violent storms triggered flash flooding, uprooting trees and ripping off roofs in southeastern France, authoriti...
International team investigates Laguna del Maule volcanic field
Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)
The Laguna del Maule Volcanic Field, Chile, includes a record of unusually large and recent concentration of silicic eruptions. Since 2007, the crust there has ...
UN declares Gaza City emergency for floods
Nov 27, 2014 (AFP)
A United Nations agency declared a state of "emergency" in Gaza City on Thursday, after two days of heavy rains and flooding in the war-ravaged Palestinian encl...
Japan volcano eruption hits flights
Nov 27, 2014 (AFP)
Flights in Japan were cancelled or diverted on Thursday to avoid a cloud of ash and smoke spewing from an erupting volcano in the south. Japan Airlines and All ...
Powerful earthquake sparks panic in Indonesia
Nov 26, 2014 (AFP)
A powerful undersea earthquake rocked eastern Indonesia on Wednesday, causing fresh panic in an area that has been hit by a series of strong tremors in recent d...
Ash clouds can cross Atlantic Ocean
Nov 26, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have led the discovery of a volcanic ash cloud that travelled from Alaska to Northern Ireland and beyond - overturning ...
Japan's Mount Aso volcano belches smoke and ash
Nov 26, 2014 (AFP)
A huge volcano in southern Japan was belching smoke and ash 1,000 metres (3,000 feet) into the air Wednesday, the latest eruption in one of the world's most vol...
5.6-magnitude quake hits China's Sichuan province: USGS
Nov 25, 2014 (AFP)
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck China's southwestern province of Sichuan on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said. The quake hit 25 kilometres (15 miles) nor...
Morocco flash floods kill at least 32
Nov 24, 2014 (AFP)
The death toll from three days of what residents described as the heaviest storms to hit southern Morocco in decades has climbed to at least 32, authorities sai...
Busy Pacific, light Atlantic hurricane season draws to end
Nov 24, 2014 (AFP)
Hurricane season ends Sunday, and while the Atlantic had a particularly tranquil spell, the Pacific was at its most active in two decades, US meteorologists sai...
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