SHAKE AND BLOW - AFRICA DAILY

Mar 25, 2013 (AFP)

An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale shook El Hierro island in Spain's Canaries on Monday, the strongest of hundreds of tremblors recorded in recent...

Megavolcanoes tied to pre-dinosaur mass extinction

Mar 24, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists examining evidence across the world from New Jersey to North Africa say they have linked the abrupt disappearance of half of earth's species 200 mill...

Brazil landslides claim at least 27 lives

Mar 20, 2013 (AFP)

At least 27 people were killed by landslides caused by heavy rains in a mountainous area of the Brazilian sate of Rio de Janeiro, authorities said Tuesday. The ...

Madagascar's hungry eat grasshoppers after deadly cyclone

Mar 20, 2013 (AFP)

With small, silent steps, 10-year-old Borikely carefully picks her way through the tall grass of a Madagascar field in search of her dinner. She's hunting for g...

Brazil landslides claim at least 24 lives

Mar 19, 2013 (AFP)

At least 24 people were killed by landslides spawned by heavy rains in a mountainous area of the Brazilian sate of Rio de Janeiro, authorities said Tuesday. Ano...

Heavy rains leave 13 dead in Brazil

Mar 18, 2013 (AFP)

Landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed 13 people over the past 24 hours in the Brazilian tourist town of Petropolis, an official said Monday. "We are i...

Japan ups disaster debris estimate to reach N. America

Mar 15, 2013 (AFP)

Japan's estimate for the amount of debris from the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster that will reach North America later this year has sharply increased, a report sai...

Japan pays for tsunami cleanup on Canadian coast

Mar 13, 2013 (AFP)

Japan provided $1 million on Wednesday to help clean up debris from the March 2011 tsunami that has washed up along Canada's shores. Japanese Consul General Sei...

California quake revives Big One jitters

Mar 11, 2013 (AFP)

A 4.7-magnitude earthquake Monday shook buildings in Los Angeles, with US seismologists saying it was the strongest to hit the area since 2010, but there were n...

Japan marks second tsunami anniversary

Mar 11, 2013 (AFP)

People all over Japan bowed their heads in silence Monday as they remembered the almost 19,000 who died when a ferocious tsunami surged ashore two years earlier...

Breaking the rules for how tsunamis work

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

The earthquake zones off of certain coasts-like those of Japan and Java-make them especially vulnerable to tsunamis, according to a new study. They can produce ...

Floating tsunami trash to be a decades-long headache

Mar 08, 2013 (AFP)

The tsunami that ravaged northeast Japan in March 2011 created the biggest single dumping of rubbish, sweeping some five million tonnes of shattered buildings, ...

Hope and despair as Japan marks tsunami anniversary

Mar 07, 2013 (AFP)

In the dark months after a catastrophic tsunami smashed into Japan, killing almost 19,000 people and sparking a nuclear disaster, hopes for a rapid recovery and...

Volcanic aerosols, not pollutants, tamped down recent Earth warming

Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)

A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for clues about why Earth did not warm as much as scientists expected between 2000 and 2010 now thinks ...

Q and A on Japan's disaster two years on

Mar 07, 2013 (AFP)

Japan on Monday marks the second anniversary of its worst peace time disaster, when an earthquake-tsunami struck, triggering the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe. ...

Netherlands shares flood control expertise

Mar 06, 2013 (UPI)

The Netherlands says its experience and innovation in water management can help the United States and the rest of world better deal with flooding disasters. Dut...

AFP pictures show then and now of tsunami

Mar 04, 2013 (AFP)

The piles of rubble left behind by the receding tsunami have largely gone, but two years after nature visited its fury, some stretches of Japan's battered north...

At least eight dead in Ecuador floods: officials

Mar 03, 2013 (AFP)

At least eight people were killed by flooding in southwestern Ecuador following several hours of torrential rains, officials said Sunday. "Unfortunately, there ...

6.9-magnitude quake hits off Russian far east: USGS

Feb 28, 2013 (AFP)

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck Thursday off the coast of far eastern Russia, the US Geological Survey said, with Russian officials saying the tremor caused n...

'Lucky' Australians dodge cyclone's worst

Feb 28, 2013 (AFP)

Australians in the remote northwest mining belt described their lucky escape Thursday after a major cyclone made landfall at a lower intensity than forecast and...