SHAKE AND BLOW

News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

6,290 articles

Death toll rises to four after China earthquake: Xinhua
Nov 23, 2014 (AFP)
The death toll from a 5.9 magnitude earthquake that struck a remote part of China's southwest rose to five on Sunday, as media reported the injured have all bee...
Volcano erupts in Cape Verde
Nov 23, 2014 (AFP)
A rare eruption of Cape Verde volcano Pico do Fogo, its biggest in decades, caused the closure of the airport and evacuation of local residents, officials told ...
Volcanic ash - getting a clearer picture
Nov 20, 2014 (SPX)
ZEUS, a device developed by the Met Office and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to improve our understanding of atmospheric volcanic ash distribu...
Small volcanoes could slow global warming: study
Nov 18, 2014 (AFP)
Small volcanic eruptions could be slowing global warming by spewing sulfur aerosols that reach the upper atmosphere and reflect sunlight away from the Earth, US...
Tsunami alert sparks panic in Indonesia
Nov 15, 2014 (AFP)
A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake rocked the Maluku Islands in eastern Indonesia Saturday, sparking a tsunami warning and causing panicked people to flee thei...
Three dead, nine injured as tremor hits Czech mine
Nov 14, 2014 (AFP)
Three miners died and nine were injured after a strong tremor hit a coal mine in the northeastern Czech Republic on Friday, the private company running the faci...
Awesome time-lapse video features show 15 days of solar action
Nov 10, 2014 (UPI)
A newly posted YouTube video offers viewers a chance to watch the 15-days worth of solar surface activities in just a little under eight minutes. The spectacula...
Italy quake experts win appeal in 'science on trial' case
Nov 10, 2014 (AFP)
Seven Italian scientists who faced jail for failing to predict a deadly 2009 earthquake were cleared Monday of manslaughter convictions that had sparked interna...
Syracuse Geologist Reveals Correlation Between Earthquakes, Landslides
Nov 06, 2014 (SPX)
A geologist in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences has demonstrated that earthquakes--not climate change, as previously thought--affect the rate ...
Small islands may amplify tsunamis: study
Nov 05, 2014 (AFP)
Small islands, long thought to be natural tsunami barriers for coast-dwellers, may in fact amplify the waves they are supposed to break, researchers warned Wedn...
Chile earthquake points to rock structures that affect ruptures
Nov 05, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Liverpool have found an unusual mass of rock deep in the active fault line beneath Chile which influenced the rupture size of...
US lawmaker gets reservist call-up -- for volcano duty
Nov 04, 2014 (AFP)
She might be a US congresswoman, but Tulsi Gabbard is also a reservist in the National Guard, which placed her on active duty to help with a volcanic eruption i...
Vance becomes category two hurricane
Nov 03, 2014 (AFP)
Hurricane Vance strengthened to a category two storm as it swirled in the eastern Pacific but remained far from land, US forecasters said. Vance was packing max...
Nuri strengthens to super typhoon
Nov 02, 2014 (UPI)
Nuri strengthened to a super typhoon after picking up in wind speed Sunday. The storm, centered in the west Pacific Ocean, was headed toward the Philippines, bu...
7.1-magnitude quake hits off Fiji
Nov 01, 2014 (AFP)
A major earthquake was recorded in the south Pacific early Sunday, about 140 kilometres (88 miles) northeast of Fiji's Ndoi Island, the US Geological Survey sai...
Magma pancakes beneath Lake Toba
Oct 31, 2014 (SPX)
The tremendous amounts of lava that are emitted during super-eruptions accumulate over millions of years prior to the event in the Earth's crust. These reservoi...
Costa Rica on alert after volcano spews ash toward capital
Oct 30, 2014 (AFP)
Costa Rican authorities issued an emergency alert on Thursday after ash from the erupting Turrialba volcano reached the capital San Jose and beyond. The alert c...
Upgrading infrastructure could reduce flood damage
Oct 30, 2014 (SPX)
The severe flooding that devastated a wide swath of Colorado last year might have been less destructive if the bridges, roads and other infrastructure had been ...
India shifts thousands ahead of cyclone, Pakistan on alert
Oct 29, 2014 (AFP)
India was Wednesday shifting thousands of people out of the way of Cyclone Nilofar due to hit the region this weekend, while Pakistan geared up for potential la...
Tropical Depression Hanna soaks Nicaragua, Honduras
Oct 28, 2014 (AFP)
Tropical Depression Hanna on Monday lashed northeastern Nicaragua and eastern Honduras, unleashing heavy rains that US forecasters warned could cause deadly fla...
Buy Advertising About Us Editorial & Other Enquiries Privacy statement
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.