SHAKE AND BLOW - AFRICA DAILY

3D laser map shows earthquake before and after

Feb 13, 2012 (SPX)

Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape down to a few inches, and it's giving them insight into how earthquake faults behave. I...

Death toll in Philippine quake rises to 39

Feb 10, 2012 (AFP)

The death toll from a strong quake this week in the central Philippines rose to 39 on Friday, with dozens of missing feared dead, a disaster official said. Resc...

Chile to prosecute workers over lack of tsunami warning

Feb 10, 2012 (AFP)

Chile's attorney general announced Friday that eight emergency warning workers would be prosecuted for failing to notify the public about a deadly tsunami in Fe...

Tree rings may underestimate climate response to volcanic eruptions

Feb 10, 2012 (SPX)

Some climate cooling caused by past volcanic eruptions may not be evident in tree-ring reconstructions of temperature change because large enough temperature dr...

N.Z. quake building was sub-standard: probe

Feb 09, 2012 (AFP)

An office block that collapsed, killing 115 people, including 65 foreign students, in last year's Christchurch earthquake did not meet building standards, an of...

Philippine quake survivors beg for search help

Feb 08, 2012 (AFP)

Survivors of a deadly quake in the Philippines begged rescuers Wednesday to keep searching for dozens of people buried in landslides, but officials said hopes o...

Scant hope for Philippine quake missing

Feb 08, 2012 (AFP)

Thousands of soldiers in the quake-hit Philippines Tuesday scoured villages buried under landslides, but authorities said hopes of finding dozens of missing peo...

Philippine rescuers search for quake survivors

Feb 07, 2012 (AFP)

Rescuers in the Philippines dug through rubble with their bare hands on Tuesday in a frantic search for survivors, a day after a powerful earthquake killed doze...

Flood fears ease in Australia as clean-up begins

Feb 07, 2012 (AFP)

Fears eased Tuesday that a swollen river would breach its banks in the Australian state of Queensland as residents in other areas began a huge clean-up after fl...

2012 Britain's 2nd-wettest year ever

Jan 03, 2012 (UPI)

Britain's national weather service says 2012 was the country's second-wettest year on record and extreme rainfall may be increasing. The Met Office said the tot...