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Be prepared for hurricanes, despite calm forecast, NOAA warns
May 29, 2014 (AFP)
Despite the quiet forecast for this year's hurricane season, the director of the Miami-based National Hurricane Center warned Thursday not to let guards down co...
NASA Airborne Research Focuses on Andean Volcanoes
May 28, 2014 (SPX)
Volcanoes in Central and South America were the primary focus of a four-week Earth science study in late April and early May 2014 using a NASA-developed airborn...
Amanda becomes category four hurricane in Pacific
May 25, 2014 (AFP)
Hurricane Amanda, the first named storm of the season, has intensified in the Pacific Ocean, rising to category four strength -- but remains far from land, fore...
Hundreds wounded as strong quake sparks panic in Turkey
May 24, 2014 (AFP)
More than 250 people were wounded on Saturday when a 6.9 magnitude undersea earthquake sparked panic in northwestern Turkey. Television footage showed hundreds ...
Amanda strengthens to become season's first hurricane
May 24, 2014 (AFP)
Tropical Storm Amanda intensified Saturday, becoming the season's first hurricane as it churned off Mexico's Pacific coast, weather officials said. Mexico's Nat...
Massive clean-up in Balkans after flood of the century
May 23, 2014 (AFP)
The death toll from cataclysmic floods in the Balkans rose by six to 57 on Friday as people returned home to salvage what belongings they could amid a huge clea...
Deadly floods recede to reveal Balkan desolation
May 22, 2014 (AFP)
Floodwaters crept lower in the shellshocked Balkans Thursday to reveal widespread devastation after the region's deadliest natural disaster since records began ...
NOAA predicts 'average' Atlantic hurricane season
May 22, 2014 (AFP)
Forecasters predict the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season will be "near or below average," thanks to an expected El Nino phenomenon, the National Oceanic and Atmos...
The next 'Big One' for the Bay Area may be a cluster of major quakes
May 21, 2014 (SPX)
A cluster of closely timed earthquakes over 100 years in the 17th and 18th centuries released as much accumulated stress on San Francisco Bay Area's major fault...
Catastrophic floods bring down Bosnia ethnic barriers
May 20, 2014 (AFP)
When Ibro Begic decided to tackle the hazardous mountain road to reach those stricken by record floods near his Bosnian town, he was also challenging deep ethni...
Precursor volcano to the island of O'ahu discovered
May 20, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Hawai'i - Manoa (UHM), Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de L'Environment (France), and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research In...
Dangerous storms peaking further north, south than in past
May 20, 2014 (SPX)
Powerful, destructive tropical cyclones are now reaching their peak intensity farther from the equator and closer to the poles, according to a new study co-auth...
Balkans floods trigger Bosnia's worst exodus since war
May 19, 2014 (AFP)
Bosnia said Monday it was witnessing "the biggest exodus" since the 1990s war after the worst floods in a century inundated huge swathes of the Balkans, killing...
Toll mounts as thousands in Serbia, Bosnia flee historic floods
May 18, 2014 (AFP)
Thousands crammed into boats and army trucks as they fled their homes in Serbia and Bosnia on Sunday after record rainfall turned the Sava river into a deadly t...
6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes off Indonesia: USGS
May 18, 2014 (AFP)
A 6.2-magnitude quake struck off the western Indonesian island of Sumatra Sunday, prompting panicked people to run out of their homes. However there were no rep...
Water extraction boosts California quake risk: study
May 14, 2014 (AFP)
Relentless pumping of water to irrigate farms in part of California's Central Valley is boosting the risk of earthquakes on the San Andreas fault, geologists sa...
Yellowstone Geyser Eruptions Mostly Influenced By Internal Processes
May 12, 2014 (SPX)
The intervals between geyser eruptions depend on a delicate balance of underground factors, such as heat and water supply, and interactions with surrounding gey...
Questions remain as China remembers 6 years since quake
May 12, 2014 (AFP)
Six years after a huge earthquake killed tens of thousands of people in China, questions over poor building work and corruption were still being asked on Monday...
Three dead in China rain storms: government
May 12, 2014 (AFP)
Three people have been killed and thousands evacuated in several days of rainstorms in southern China, flooding major cities and affecting air and rail transpor...
One dead, 30 injured in southern Pakistan quakes
May 09, 2014 (AFP)
A series of small earthquakes hit southern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least one person and injuring 30 others, officials said. Three shallow quakes struck n...
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