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News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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Floods kill 18 in Burkina Faso, leave 21,000 homeless
Sep 06, 2012 (AFP)
Heavy rains and flooding since the start of June have claimed 18 lives in Burkina Faso and made more than 21,000 people homeless, an emergency aid official said...
Leslie becomes a hurricane in Atlantic: US forecasters
Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)
US forecasters warned Wednesday that former tropical storm Leslie had swollen to become hurricane, the sixth of the Atlantic season. The National Hurricane Cent...
Japan to help US, Canada with tsunami debris
Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)
Japan will draw up a plan to help the United States and Canada with debris along their Pacific coasts, as it looks to pay back support received after last year'...
Huge quake jolts Costa Rica, one killed
Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)
A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck Costa Rica's Pacific coast Wednesday, killing at least one person, briefly knocking out power and phone lines, and tr...
Sixty-eight people die in Niger floods since July
Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)
At least 68 people have been killed and nearly 500,000 displaced by flooding in the west African nation of Niger since July amid heavy rains, the government sai...
Huge quake jolts Costa Rica, two killed
Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)
A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck Costa Rica's Pacific coast Wednesday, killing two people, briefly knocking out power and phone lines, and triggering ...
Earthquake Hazards Map Study Finds Deadly Flaws, MU Researcher Suggests Improvements
Sep 04, 2012 (SPX)
Three of the largest and deadliest earthquakes in recent history occurred where earthquake hazard maps didn't predict massive quakes. A University of Missouri s...
Scripps Researchers Pinpoint Hot Spots as Earthquake Trigger Points
Sep 04, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have come a step closer to deciphering some of the basic mysteries and mechanisms behind earth...
Hundreds of homes damaged in Philippines quake
Sep 04, 2012 (AFP)
More than 800 homes and businesses were damaged when a 5.6-magnitude earthquake rocked the southern Philippines early Tuesday, officials said. Cracks snaked acr...
N. Korea says typhoon killed 48 people
Sep 03, 2012 (AFP)
A strong typhoon which hit North Korea last week killed 48 people and left more than 50 injured or missing, the country's state news agency said on Monday. Typh...
A Slow-moving Isaac Brings Flooding to Gulf States
Sep 03, 2012 (JPL)
Isaac - once a Category 1 hurricane and now a strong tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 70 miles per hour (60 knots) - continues to create havoc acr...
Dakar floods uncover ancient tools, jewellery: researchers
Sep 03, 2012 (AFP)
Pieces of pottery, iron tools and jewellery dating back thousands of years have been discovered in Dakar after recent torrential rains flooded some suburbs, uni...
Obama to tour hurricane damage on Monday
Aug 31, 2012 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama will tour storm damage and visit victims of Hurricane Isaac on Monday, the White House said Friday, as Republican rival Mitt Romney he...
One dead, small tsunami after 7.6 Philippine quake
Aug 31, 2012 (AFP)
A 7.6 earthquake struck off the Philippine coast on Friday, triggering landslides that killed at least one person and a small tsunami that hit the eastern part ...
Hurricane Isaac shifts Mississippi into reverse gear
Aug 30, 2012 (AFP)
The Mississippi flowed backwards for nearly 24 hours when Hurricane Isaac roared off the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall in Louisiana, the US Geological Survey...
Second typhoon pounds S. Korea, kills two
Aug 30, 2012 (AFP)
A new typhoon hit South Korea's southern coast on Thursday, killing two people, as the country cleared up damage from a powerful storm earlier in the week that ...
Death toll from S. Korea typhoon rises to 18
Aug 29, 2012 (AFP)
South Korean rescuers Wednesday recovered two more bodies near two wrecked Chinese fishing boats, bringing the confirmed death toll from a powerful typhoon to 1...
Japan estimates monster quake could kill 320,000
Aug 29, 2012 (AFP)
Japan's government on Wednesday unveiled a worst case disaster scenario that warned a monster earthquake in the Pacific Ocean could kill over 320,000 people, dw...
Hurricane Isaac batters New Orleans
Aug 29, 2012 (AFP)
Hurricane Isaac pounded New Orleans with fierce winds and torrents of rain Wednesday, but the multi-billion dollar flood defenses built after Katrina swamped th...
Cloud control could tame hurricanes
Aug 29, 2012 (SPX)
They are one of the most destructive forces of nature on Earth, but now environmental scientists are working to tame the hurricane. In a paper, published in Atm...
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