SHAKE AND BLOW

News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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Hurricane Sandy heads for US after killing 44 in Caribbean
Oct 27, 2012 (AFP)
Hurricane Sandy regained strength Saturday as it lumbered northward toward an election-week collision with the US East Coast after leaving 44 people dead in the...
New York declares emergency ahead of Sandy
Oct 26, 2012 (AFP)
New York's governor declared a state of emergency Friday ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Sandy, while the mayor of New York City said the Big Apple was ready ...
Elderly man dies as earthquake hits southern Italy
Oct 26, 2012 (AFP)
Panic-stricken residents rushed into the streets fearing building collapses when a 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck a southern Italian province early Friday, whi...
Hurricane Sandy kills 2 in Haiti, heads to Bahamas
Oct 25, 2012 (AFP)
Hurricane Sandy barreled towards the Bahamas Thursday as a powerful category two storm, after battering Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba and claiming three lives so far....
Tokyo prepares for the 'Big One'
Oct 25, 2012 (AFP)
Seen from atop the towering Tokyo Sky Tree, the patchwork of narrow alleyways and ramshackle houses that make up Tokyo's Sumida district is a picturesque throwb...
Hurricane makes direct hit on Jamaican capital
Oct 24, 2012 (AFP)
The crowded Jamaican capital took a direct hit Wednesday from Hurricane Sandy as hundreds took refuge in emergency shelters and poor slum dwellers in Kingston's...
Flooding cut Nigerian oil output by around 20 percent
Oct 24, 2012 (AFP)
Severe flooding temporarily cut Nigeria's oil output by around 500,000 barrels per day, or some 20 percent of total production in Africa's largest crude produce...
Jamaica, Cuba issue hurricane warnings
Oct 23, 2012 (AFP)
Hurricane warnings were issued Tuesday for Jamaica and parts of Cuba as Tropical Storm Sandy gained strength in the southern Caribbean. Forecasters predicted th...
Floods in S.Africa kill eight
Oct 22, 2012 (AFP)
Heavy rains that lashed South Africa's southeast left eight people dead over the weekend and caused extensive damage to property, an official said on Monday. Po...
Lourdes sanctuaries start reopening after floods clean-up
Oct 22, 2012 (AFP)
The French mountain town of Lourdes, whose spring water many Catholics believe can miraculously cure illness, began reopening its shrines Monday after flash flo...
JPL Scientists Participate in ShakeOut Exercises
Oct 22, 2012 (JPL)
On Thursday, Oct. 18, at 10:18 a.m. PDT, more than 9.3 million Californians, including employees at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., "dropped...
Italian scientists sentenced to jail in quake trial
Oct 22, 2012 (AFP)
Six Italian scientists and a government official were sentenced to six years in jail on Monday for multiple manslaughter in a watershed ruling that found them g...
Water extraction helped trigger deadly quake in Spain: scientists
Oct 21, 2012 (AFP)
Massive extraction of groundwater helped unleash an earthquake in southeastern Spain last year that killed nine people, injured at least 100 and left thousands ...
Hundreds of pilgrims evacuated as floods swamp Lourdes
Oct 20, 2012 (AFP)
Floods caused by days of non-stop rain in southwest France forced the closing of most of the Catholic sanctuary of Lourdes Saturday and the evacuation of more t...
Could a Hurricane Ever Strike Southern California?
Oct 19, 2012 (JPL)
There's an old adage (with several variations) that California has four seasons: earthquake, fire, flood and drought. While Californians happily cede the title ...
World's largest subwoofer: Earthquakes 'pump' ground to produce infrasound
Oct 19, 2012 (SPX)
Earthquakes sway buildings, buckle terrain, and rumble - both audibly and in infrasound, frequencies below the threshold of human hearing. New computer modeling...
UN official visits Benin over west African floods
Oct 19, 2012 (AFP)
A top UN humanitarian official visited Benin on Friday as flooding ravaged parts of west and central Africa, affecting some 1.5 million people. UN Undersecretar...
Pakistan floods kill 455, affect five million
Oct 17, 2012 (AFP)
Monsoon floods in Pakistan have killed 455 people over the past five weeks and affected more than five million, according to the latest figures from the governm...
Study advances understanding of volcanic eruptions
Oct 17, 2012 (SPX)
Volcanic eruptions vary from common, small eruptions that have little impact on humans and the environment to rare, large-to-gigantic eruptions so massive they ...
Mexico hurricane weakens into tropical depression
Oct 17, 2012 (AFP)
The storm formerly known as Hurricane Paul weakened into a tropical depression Wednesday as it moved away from Mexico's west coast after triggering floods and d...
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