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News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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TD Alvin Marks Starts Of US Hurricane Season
May 17, 2013 (SPX)
The Hurricane Season of the Eastern Pacific Ocean officially began May 15 and the first tropical depression of the season formed. Tropical Depression One-E was ...
Cyclone rips into Bangladesh after mass evacuations
May 16, 2013 (AFP)
A cyclone ripped into the Bangladeshi coast on Thursday as hundreds of thousands of people hunkered down in evacuation shelters including in a region of Myanmar...
Italy judge says deadly L'Aquila quake was foreseeable
May 16, 2013 (AFP)
A deadly earthquake in the Italian town of L'Aquila in 2009 which killed 309 people "was not unforeseeable", a judge said Thursday, reigniting a heated scientif...
Cyclone weakens but Bangladesh, Myanmar on alert: UN
May 15, 2013 (AFP)
A cyclone threatening to lash low-lying coastal areas of Bangladesh and Myanmar appears to have weakened, but still poses a risk to more than eight million peop...
Mexico volcano spews ash on towns
May 15, 2013 (AFP)
Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano spewed a new column of ash late Tuesday, with some of the material falling on three towns while glowing rocks landed on the toweri...
Mexican volcano rumbles, but residents shrug it off
May 14, 2013 (AFP)
Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano has blown steam for days, prompting authorities to prepare for possible evacuations, but residents are used to their towering neig...
Dozens of Rohingya missing in Myanmar as cyclone looms
May 14, 2013 (AFP)
Rescuers were on Tuesday searching for 58 missing Rohingya Muslims whose boat capsized in western Myanmar as they fled a looming cyclone, state media said, as t...
7.0-magnitude quake in remote Northern Mariana Islands
May 14, 2013 (AFP)
A deep 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck near the Northern Mariana Islands in the western Pacific on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warnin...
Bangladesh issues cyclone alert
May 13, 2013 (AFP)
Bangladesh warned millions of people Monday that a cyclone could barrel into their coastal homes later this week as authorities in Myanmar began moving potentia...
Risk of another Indian Ocean earthquake, tsunami said underestimated
May 13, 2013 (UPI)
The risk of Indian Ocean earthquakes and tsunamis similar to the 2004 Sumatra disaster is greater than previously thought, researchers say. British and Canadian...
Myanmar moves internal refugees as cyclone nears
May 12, 2013 (AFP)
Myanmar on Sunday began moving people into emergency shelters as a cyclone threatened to batter a violence-wracked region home to tens of thousands of internal ...
China marks anniversary of killer Sichuan quake
May 12, 2013 (AFP)
China Sunday marked the fifth anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake which killed more than 80,000 but some said questions remained over the thousands of childre...
Strong Iran quake kills child, causes damage
May 11, 2013 (AFP)
A strong earthquake of 6.2 magnitude hit southern Iran early on Saturday, killing one child and injuring at least 20 others in remote, mountainous villages, sta...
School questions linger 5 years after Sichuan quake
May 10, 2013 (AFP)
Five years after thousands of Chinese children died as their schools collapsed in an earthquake, new babies have given devastated families hope even as question...
Budget cuts could threaten U.S. flood warning system
May 10, 2013 (UPI)
Budget cuts are forcing a U.S. agency to turn off hundreds of stream gauges experts say help communities prepare for floods like those that hit Iowa last month....
No Redoubt: Volcanic eruption forecasting improved
May 09, 2013 (SPX)
Forecasting volcanic eruptions with success is heavily dependent on recognizing well-established patterns of pre-eruption unrest in the monitoring data. But in ...
Researchers Develope New Way To Measure Destructive Potential Of Hurricane Season
May 09, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at Florida State University have developed a new metric to measure seasonal Atlantic tropical cyclone activity that focuses on the size of storms in...
Philippine volcano survivor recalls 'scene from hell'
May 08, 2013 (AFP)
Philippine tour guide Roel Llarena recalled Wednesday how a mountain hike turned into a nightmare when the volcano he was climbing began spewing out giant rocks...
More hurricanes for Hawaii?
May 07, 2013 (SPX)
News of a hurricane threat sends our hearts racing, glues us to the Internet for updates, and makes us rush to the store to stock up on staples. Hawaii, fortuna...
Five dead as Philippine volcano erupts
May 07, 2013 (AFP)
Four foreign tourists and their Filipino tour guide were crushed to death when one of the Philippines' most active volcanoes spewed a giant ash cloud and a hail...
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