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News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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Mine disaster: Hundreds of aftershocks
Apr 23, 2013 (SPX)
A new University of Utah study has identified hundreds of previously unrecognized small aftershocks that happened after Utah's deadly Crandall Canyon mine colla...
China quake rescuers battle landslides, debris
Apr 22, 2013 (AFP)
Clogged roads, debris and landslides impeded rescuers Monday as they battled to find survivors of a powerful earthquake in mountainous southwest China that has ...
Helping to forecast earthquakes in Salt Lake Valley
Apr 22, 2013 (SPX)
Salt Lake Valley, home to the Salt Lake City segment of the Wasatch fault zone and the West Valley fault zone, has been the site of repeated surface-faulting ea...
China quake takes an only son, and all hope
Apr 21, 2013 (AFP)
Wu Yong sobs as fellow villagers carry away his teenage boy's coffin, after a terrifying tremor in the mountains of southwest China robbed him of the only son h...
Rescuers in China scrabble to find quake survivors
Apr 21, 2013 (AFP)
Thousands of rescue workers combed through flattened villages in southwest China on Sunday in a race to find survivors from a powerful quake as the toll of dead...
Pakistan quake victims clamour for aid
Apr 19, 2013 (AFP)
Pakistani earthquake victims staged protests Friday, demanding the government do more to provide emergency relief as they prepared to spend a fourth night sleep...
Numbers support theory large earthquakes can trigger another far away
Apr 19, 2013 (UPI)
Big earthquakes can trigger other quakes far from their geographical center at least 9 percent of the time, a statistical analysis by a U.S. researcher shows. W...
Kenya floods claims 63 lives in past month: government
Apr 18, 2013 (AFP)
Flooding in Kenya after heavy seasonal rains has claimed 63 lives and forced tens of thousands from their homes in the past month, Vice-President William Ruto s...
More than 12,000 affected by quake in Pakistan: official
Apr 18, 2013 (AFP)
More than 12,000 Pakistanis living in a remote, impoverished southwestern desert region near the Iranian border have been affected by this week's huge earthquak...
4,000 Peruvians evacuated from homes surrounding erupting volcano
Apr 18, 2013 (UPI)
Regional governments in the south of Peru, as well as several local municipalities, have declared a state of emergency and begun evacuating more than 4,000 citi...
Research aims to settle debate over origin of Yellowstone volcano
Apr 18, 2013 (SPX)
A debate among scientists about the geologic formation of the supervolcano encompassing the region around Yellowstone National Park has taken a major step forwa...
'Thousands' of Pakistanis affected by Iran quake
Apr 17, 2013 (AFP)
Thousands of Pakistanis have been affected by a huge earthquake in Iran that damaged hundreds of homes and killed at least 41 people, sparking a military rescue...
US offers aid as Iran quake kills 34 in Pakistan
Apr 17, 2013 (AFP)
Pakistani troops have mobilised to help the desperately poor victims of an earthquake centred in nearby Iran that killed at least 34 people, as the United State...
Japan island rocked by 30 quakes
Apr 17, 2013 (AFP)
Around 30 earthquakes, one of them magnitude 6.2, rocked a volcanic island south of Tokyo Wednesday and another significant quake hit the northeast of the count...
Huge quake hits Iran, kills 34 in Pakistan
Apr 16, 2013 (AFP)
A powerful earthquake struck southeastern Iran on Tuesday, killing at least 34 people across the border in Pakistan and shaking buildings as far away as the Gul...
6.6-magnitude quake strikes Papua New Guinea: USGS
Apr 14, 2013 (AFP)
A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea on Sunday, the US Geological Survey reported, but a tsunami warning was not issued and no major da...
Strong 6.3-magnitude quake hits western Japan
Apr 13, 2013 (AFP)
A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit western Japan early on Saturday, injuring at least 24 people and destroying some houses, officials and reports said. Japan...
'Sandy' removed from hurricane name list
Apr 12, 2013 (AFP)
The destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy has prompted the World Meteorological Organization to remove the name from a rotating list of storm titles, the UN age...
Indonesian floods kill eleven
Apr 12, 2013 (AFP)
Eleven people have been killed and thousands forced from their homes this week by flooding on Indonesia's main island of Java, an official said Friday. Java's l...
UC San Diego team achieves petaflop-level earthquake simulations on GPU-powered supercomputers
Apr 11, 2013 (SPX)
A team of researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Sa...
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