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News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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$38 mn needed to help victims of Nigeria floods: UN
Nov 09, 2012 (AFP)
About $38 million dollars (30 million euros) are needed to help some two million people made homeless by deadly floods that have ravaged Nigeria, the UN humanit...
Floods claim as many as 16 lives in Haitian city: officials
Nov 09, 2012 (AFP)
Flood waters inundated impoverished areas of Cap Haitien, Haiti's second largest city, killing as many as 16 people, including three children, city officials sa...
Guatemala quake toll rises to 52
Nov 08, 2012 (AFP)
Guatemalan rescuers searched Thursday for people trapped in the ruins of homes after a powerful earthquake killed 52 people and left thousands spending the cold...
Taking the 'pulse' of volcanoes using satellite images
Nov 08, 2012 (SPX)
A new study by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science uses Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InS...
Massive volcanic eruption puts past climate and people in perspective
Nov 08, 2012 (SPX)
The largest volcanic eruption on Earth in the past millions of years took place in Indonesia 74,000 years ago and researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute can ...
15 feared dead in Guatemala quake
Nov 07, 2012 (AFP)
A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Guatemala on Wednesday, leaving some 15 people trapped in rubble while 15 others were feared dead in the sout...
Death toll in south India floods rises to 45: officials
Nov 07, 2012 (AFP)
The death toll from floods in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has reached 45, officials said on Wednesday, amid continuing efforts to provide relief...
Croatia floods force hundreds to evacuate
Nov 06, 2012 (AFP)
Floods forced hundreds of people to evacuate their homes in Croatia on Tuesday as declining water levels in flood-hit regions of neighboring Slovenia allowed ma...
Slovenia urges evacuation as river overflows banks
Nov 05, 2012 (AFP)
Slovenian authorities on Monday urged residents along the Drava to evacuate after the river started overflowing its banks following several days of heavy rain. ...
22 dead in Indian floods, 60,000 displaced: official
Nov 05, 2012 (AFP)
Torrential rains in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh have killed at least 22 people and displaced tens of thousands of villagers over the past week, ...
Nigeria floods kill 363, displace 2.1 million since July
Nov 05, 2012 (AFP)
Flooding in Nigeria since July has killed 363 people and displaced 2.1 million in what the president has called an unprecedented situation in Africa's most popu...
Evacuees return home after Indian cyclone
Nov 02, 2012 (AFP)
Thousands of residents in southeast India headed back home on Friday, two days after being evacuated as a cyclone struck killing 10 people, with two members of ...
Sandy's wrath lingers in battered US northeast
Nov 02, 2012 (AFP)
A grim routine set in Friday as superstorm Sandy's US victims struggled to adjust to gas lines, power outages and temporary housing while the death toll from th...
Ash over Alaska from 100-year-old eruption
Nov 01, 2012 (UPI)
Volcano experts in Alaska said ash in the air over the Shelikof Straight was from an eruption nearly 100 years ago. The National Weather Service in Anchorage sa...
Tabletop fault model reveals why some quakes result in faster shaking
Nov 01, 2012 (SPX)
The more time it takes for an earthquake fault to heal, the faster the shake it will produce when it finally ruptures, according to a new study by engineers at ...
Earthquake shakes buildings in Philippine capital
Oct 31, 2012 (AFP)
A small earthquake shook buildings in the Philippine capital of Manila on Wednesday but caused no damage, the government said. The Philippine Institute of Volca...
For New York rats, a question of sink or swim
Oct 31, 2012 (AFP)
As Hurricane Sandy pushed floodwater through New York's streets and into its subways, many wondered how the city's infamous rat population would fare -- sink or...
Storm-battered US battles floods, power cuts
Oct 30, 2012 (AFP)
New York struggled to get back on its feet Tuesday after superstorm Sandy carved a path of destruction from the Caribbean to Canada that left at least 110 peopl...
Sri Lanka escapes cyclone, coastal residents return
Oct 30, 2012 (AFP)
Sri Lanka lifted an evacuation order as a cyclone heading towards the island changed course early on Tuesday and headed towards neighbouring India, the Disaster...
Sandy leaves death, darkness and destruction
Oct 30, 2012 (AFP)
Superstorm Sandy finally receded Tuesday, but only after carving a trail of destruction from the Caribbean to Canada that left more than 100 dead, New York in c...
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