SHAKE AND BLOW - AFRICA DAILY

Tropical Storm Irina kills three in Mozambique:official

Mar 13, 2012 (AFP)

Tropical Storm Irina killed three people when it lashed the Mozambique coast at the begin of the month, according to a final tally given by the government on Tu...

Seismic waves converted to audio to study quake's traits

Mar 12, 2012 (SPX)

Last year's 9.0-magnitude Tohoku-Oki, Japan, earthquake was the fourth largest since 1900. However, because of thousands of seismometers in the region and Japan...

Japan marks anniversary of tsunami tragedy

Mar 11, 2012 (AFP)

Japan fell silent Sunday to honour the 19,000 people killed a year ago in a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis ...

Australia flood bill mounts and more rain forecast

Mar 09, 2012 (AFP)

Australia's flood crisis was set to cost in excess of Aus$500 million (US$530 million) in New South Wales alone and more rain was on the way, the state governme...

Volcanoes deliver two flavors of water

Mar 09, 2012 (SPX)

Seawater circulation pumps hydrogen and boron into the oceanic plates that make up the seafloor, and some of this seawater remains trapped as the plates descend...

Chaos as Sydney lashed by heaviest rainfall in five years

Mar 08, 2012 (AFP)

Sydney was thrown into chaos Thursday after the city's heaviest rainfall in five years sparked widespread flash flooding and forced the closure of railway lines...

Quake researchers warn of Tokyo's 'Big One'

Mar 08, 2012 (AFP)

A year on from one of the biggest earthquakes in recorded history, Japanese scientists are warning anew that Tokyo could soon be hit by a quake that will kill t...

Hundreds more evacuated in Australia floods

Mar 07, 2012 (AFP)

Hundreds more people were evacuated Wednesday in Australia's flood-hit southeast, as residents of the city of Wagga Wagga breathed a sigh of relief after a leve...

Fears ease after thousands flee Australian floods

Mar 06, 2012 (AFP)

Fears that a levee holding back the swollen Murrumbidgee River would fail eased Tuesday as water levels began falling after nearly 9,000 people fled their homes...

Thousands flee Australian flood-hit town

Mar 06, 2012 (AFP)

More than 8,000 people fled their homes in Australia's flood-hit southeast Tuesday amid fears that a levee holding back the swollen Murrumbidgee River would fai...

65 killed in Madagascar storm: weather agency

Mar 06, 2012 (AFP)

Tropical Storm Irina has killed at least 65 people in Madagascar, most of them residents of the Ifanadiana district in the southeast of the island, weather auth...

Flooding claims second life in Australia

Mar 05, 2012 (AFP)

Australia's flood crisis deepened Monday, with hundreds more forced to flee their homes in the rich agricultural land of the southeast and a second death as a c...

Bangkok's number two airport to reopen

Mar 05, 2012 (AFP)

Bangkok's second largest airport will reopen this week after a more than four-month closure owing to the kingdom's worst floods in decades, an official said Mon...

Deadly Australia floods spark new evacuation

Mar 05, 2012 (AFP)

Australian emergency services Monday ordered thousands more to evacuate a New South Wales town threatened by rising floodwaters, as the crisis claimed a second ...

First casualty as floods swamp parts of Australia

Mar 04, 2012 (AFP)

A man who was swept down a swollen creek became the first casualty Sunday from floods inundating Australia's New South Wales state as hundreds more people were ...

Quake-hit Christchurch cathedral to be demolished

Mar 02, 2012 (AFP)

Christchurch's Anglican cathedral will be demolished after suffering major damage in the earthquakes that rocked the New Zealand city over the past year, church...

Balancing act for tsunami mayor and single father

Mar 02, 2012 (AFP)

Mayor Futoshi Toba has spent the past year trying to rebuild a city that was virtually wiped from the map by Japan's tsunami, battling the government's sometime...

Ex-Thai PM eyes economic rebound after floods

Mar 02, 2012 (AFP)

Former Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Friday he expects the kingdom's economy to rebound in the first quarter of 2012 as firms increase output follo...

For disaster debris arriving from Japan, radiation least of the concerns

Mar 01, 2012 (SPX)

The first anniversary is approaching of the March, 2011, earthquake and tsunami that devastated Fukushima, Japan, and later this year debris from that event sho...

Tsunami towns at crossroads, despite clean-up

Feb 27, 2012 (AFP)

The boat that was dumped on the roof of Otsuchi's two-storey hotel has gone, and much of the rubble that littered this fishing port has been cleared. But the to...