SHAKE AND BLOW

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China pulls paper over flood story: rights group
Aug 07, 2012 (AFP)
China has pulled a Beijing newspaper from the newsstands after it criticised the official handling of July floods and said the government had underreported the ...
Homing in on a potential pre-quake signal
Aug 06, 2012 (SPX)
Changes in seismic velocity--changes in the speeds at which seismic waves move through the Earth's crust--have been identified during and after many earthquakes...
India floods kill 34, hundreds of pilgrims stranded
Aug 05, 2012 (AFP)
Flash floods in mountainous northern Indian have killed at least 34 people and left hundreds of Hindu pilgrims stranded, officials said Sunday. Twenty-three wor...
Ernesto churns towards Mexico, Central America
Aug 05, 2012 (AFP)
Tropical storm Ernesto swept by Jamaica and churned toward the Central American coast Sunday as US forecasters predicted it would gain strength in the coming da...
Ernesto races towards Mexico, Central America
Aug 05, 2012 (AFP)
Tropical Storm Ernesto was spinning westward in the Caribbean Sea on Sunday, barreling toward Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, US forecasters said. At 1500 GMT, the ...
N. Korea says floods killed 169, left 400 missing
Aug 04, 2012 (AFP)
Floods which hit parts of North Korea in recent weeks killed 169 people and left 400 missing, the state news agency said Saturday, sharply updating earlier casu...
Jamaica braces for Tropical Storm Ernesto
Aug 04, 2012 (AFP)
Jamaica braced Saturday for strong winds and heavy rain from Tropical Storm Ernesto, which could build into a hurricane as it brushes past the island, US foreca...
One dead, 26 missing after north India floods
Aug 04, 2012 (AFP)
Flash floods triggered by heavy rains in two mountainous north Indian states have killed one person and left 26 others, mostly power plant workers, missing, off...
Philippine typhoon death toll rises to 37
Aug 03, 2012 (AFP)
The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Saola has risen to 37 and is expected to go even higher as new rains worsened flooding, the government said on Fr...
Are large earthquakes linked across the globe?
Aug 03, 2012 (SPX)
The press release and paper noted below, publishing in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, is strictly under embargo until 12:00 Noon Eastern ...
Six dead as Typhoon Saola lashes Taiwan
Aug 02, 2012 (AFP)
Typhoon Saola pounded Taiwan with fierce winds and torrential rain that left six people dead and forced nearly the entire island to shut down on Thursday, rescu...
6.1 magnitude earthquake rattles central Peru: USGS
Aug 02, 2012 (AFP)
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake rattled central Peru early on Thursday, US seismologists said, waking people up and sending them rushing into the street, according t...
N. Koreans urgently need drinking water after floods: UN
Aug 02, 2012 (AFP)
Tens of thousands of flood-hit North Korean families urgently need clean drinking water to prevent disease outbreaks, UN agencies said Thursday. The agencies an...
Red Cross helps N. Korea flood victims as toll rises
Aug 02, 2012 (AFP)
The Red Cross said Thursday it had allocated almost $308,000 for victims of North Korea's floods and storms, after state media reported 119 deaths and major cro...
Four dead as Typhoon Saola lashes Taiwan
Aug 02, 2012 (AFP)
Typhoon Saola pounded Taiwan with fierce winds and torrential rain that left four people dead and forced nearly the entire island to shut down on Thursday, resc...
Typhoon Saola makes landfall in Taiwan
Aug 02, 2012 (AFP)
Typhoon Saola reached Taiwan early Thursday, causing nearly the entire island to close down and bringing torrential rains that could linger until next week, off...
Philippine floods persist, toll rises to 23
Aug 02, 2012 (AFP)
Rescuers deployed rubber boats while doctors fanned across cramped evacuation centres in the Philippines as the death toll from five days of flooding reached 23...
UN heads for flood-hit areas in North Korea
Jul 31, 2012 (AFP)
United Nations teams were heading for flood-hit areas of North Korea to assess possible aid, a UN official said Tuesday, after Pyongyang reported scores dead an...
N. Korea forecasts new storm damage after deadly floods
Jul 29, 2012 (AFP)
North Korea said Sunday it was being lashed by severe thunderstorms that could cause major damage, just days after flooding that killed scores and left tens of ...
Death toll from Beijing floods rises to 77: Xinhua
Jul 26, 2012 (AFP)
The death toll from the worst rains to hit Beijing in more than 60 years has risen to 77, China's official Xinhua news agency said Thursday, more than doubling ...
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