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GOES Satellite Catches Three Tropical Cyclones in One Shot, Sees Gabrielle Absorbed
Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)
There were three tropical cyclones between the north Eastern Pacific and the North Atlantic Ocean on Saturday, Sept. 14, and NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured...
Pakistan quake death toll surges above 300
Sep 25, 2013 (AFP)
Desperate villagers in southwest Pakistan clawed through the wreckage of their ruined homes Wednesday, a day after a huge earthquake struck, killing more than 3...
Geologists simulate deep earthquakes in the laboratory
Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)
More than 20 years ago, geologist Harry Green, now a distinguished professor of the graduate division at the University of California, Riverside, and colleagues...
Heavy toll feared as big quake hits Pakistan
Sep 24, 2013 (AFP)
Heavy casualties were feared Tuesday after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit southwestern Pakistan, demolishing houses and sending people running into the streets ...
Dozens killed in major Pakistan quake
Sep 24, 2013 (AFP)
A huge earthquake hit southwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 46 people, toppling scores of homes and sending people around the region rushing into the ...
Heavy rains kill 36 in Vietnam, Cambodia
Sep 24, 2013 (AFP)
Heavy monsoon rains exacerbated by Typhoon Usagi have pounded parts of Vietnam and Cambodia killing at least 36 people, authorities said Tuesday, with many swep...
Seismologists puzzle over largest deep earthquake ever recorded
Sep 24, 2013 (SPX)
A magnitude 8.3 earthquake that struck deep beneath the Sea of Okhotsk on May 24, 2013, has left seismologists struggling to explain how it happened. At a depth...
25 dead as typhoon hits China, flight chaos in Hong Kong
Sep 23, 2013 (AFP)
Typhoon Usagi killed at least 25 people after crashing ashore in southern China, throwing the region's transport systems into chaos and leaving tens of thousand...
Flight chaos as typhoon lashes southern China, killing three
Sep 22, 2013 (AFP)
Severe Typhoon Usagi killed at least three people as it smashed into southern China Sunday, shutting down one of the world's busiest sea ports in nearby Hong Ko...
Mexico looks to rebuild from deadly, costly twin storms
Sep 22, 2013 (AFP)
Mexico looked Saturday to the Herculean task of rebuilding after a rare double onslaught of storms, with at least 170 people feared dead in the path of destruct...
More than 100 killed in Mexico landslides, flooding: official
Sep 21, 2013 (AFP)
More than 100 people have been killed and scores are missing in landslides and flooding caused by heavy rain in Mexico, a senior government official said late F...
More than 15,000 flee volcano in Indonesia
Sep 19, 2013 (AFP)
More than 15,000 people have now fled their homes since Mount Sinabung in western Indonesia spectacularly erupted this week, an official said Thursday. The volc...
Hurricane hits Mexico, 58 missing in mudslide
Sep 19, 2013 (AFP)
The threat of a new landslide in a Mexican village delayed a mission Thursday to seek 58 missing people while a hurricane hit the northwest coast of the storm-b...
Mudslide buries village as Hurricane Manuel lashes Mexico
Sep 19, 2013 (AFP)
A resurgent hurricane lashed Mexico's northwest coast Thursday after twin storms killed at least 80 people nationwide and buried a village under a massive mudsl...
New storms loom as tourists seek Acapulco exit
Sep 18, 2013 (AFP)
Thousands of frustrated tourists lined up under sweltering heat Wednesday to board airlifts out of the flooded resort of Acapulco while a drenched Mexico braced...
Colorado floods death toll revised down
Sep 18, 2013 (AFP)
The confirmed death toll from massive floods in the US state of Colorado was revised down Tuesday from eight to six, authorities said. The Colorado Office of Em...
Death toll from Colorado floods rises to eight
Sep 17, 2013 (AFP)
The confirmed death toll from massive floods in the US state of Colorado has risen to eight, while more than 600 people remain unaccounted for, officials said e...
Indonesian volcano spews towering column of smoke
Sep 17, 2013 (AFP)
A volcano in western Indonesia erupted Tuesday for the second time this week, hurling a three-kilometre column of red-hot smoke and ash into the sky and forcing...
Airlift launched for tourists in flooded Acapulco
Sep 17, 2013 (AFP)
Mexican officials launched an airlift to evacuate tens of thousands of tourists stranded in the flooded resort of Acapulco on Tuesday following a pair of deadly...
Typhoon hits Japan as Fukushima operator releases water into sea
Sep 16, 2013 (AFP)
Typhoon Man-yi hit Japan Monday, leaving three people dead and forcing the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to release rainwater with low levels...
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