SHAKE AND BLOW

News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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Dynamic weather sensors enlisted to track tropical cyclones
Feb 27, 2023 (JPL)
NASA recently built two weather instruments to test the potential of small, low-cost sensors to do some of the work of bulkier, pricier satellites. Both instrum...
PNG has 6.2 quake; Magnitude 6.1 quake shakes Japan's Hokkaido
Feb 25, 2023 (AFP)
The quake had a depth of 38 kilometres (23 miles), the USGS said, and was recorded in the sparsely populated West New Britain archipelago region on Sunday morni...
Quake-prone Istanbul not at heightened risk: expert
Feb 25, 2023 (AFP)
"The risk hasn't increased because we are talking about completely different systems," Dogan Kalafat, the director of the Kandilli Observatory's Earthquake-Tsun...
Cyclone Freddy death toll rises to 7 in Madagascar
Feb 23, 2023 (AFP)
Madagascar's government revised the death toll for the island from five to seven on Thursday and said average wind speeds were now reaching 65 kilometres (40 mi...
6.8-magnitude quake hits eastern Tajikistan: USGS
Feb 23, 2023 (AFP)
The quake struck around 5:37 am local time (0037 GMT) at a depth of about 20.5 kilometres (12.7 miles), the US Geological Survey said. The USGS estimated that "...
Frantic search for dozens missing in Brazil floods
Feb 22, 2023 (AFP)
Some 680 millimeters (26 inches) of rain -- more than double the expected monthly amount -- fell in 24 hours around the popular beach city of Sao Sebastiao, som...
Cyclone Freddy hits Madagascar, four killed
Feb 22, 2023 (AFP)
A 27-year-old man drowned in rising sea waters on Tuesday just before the storm, which packed winds of around 130 kilometres per hour (80 miles per hour), made ...
Cyclone Freddy heads to Mozambique after killing 5 in Madagascar
Feb 22, 2023 (AFP)
Authorities gave a provisional toll of five dead after Cyclone Freddy made landfall on the Indian Ocean island late Tuesday, packing winds of around 130 kilomet...
Wetter storms, deforestation: Manila faces worsening floods
Feb 22, 2023 (AFP)
Slash-and-burn farming, illegal logging, open-pit mining and development fueled by population growth have stripped the once-densely forested Philippines of much...
Turkey tragedy jolts quake-prone Central Asia
Feb 22, 2023 (AFP)
"We are also in danger," said Imangalieva, a resident of Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city dominated by the snow-capped Tian Shan mountains. "I'm looking to mov...
New quake hits Turkey and Syria, killing six
Feb 21, 2023 (AFP)
The AFAD disaster response agency reported the deaths as well as nearly 300 hospitalisations, while in Syria the White Helmets aid group said at least 150 peopl...
Brazil flooding, landslides kill at least 36
Feb 20, 2023 (AFP)
TV and social media footage from the town of Sao Sebastiao showed entire neighborhoods under water, debris from hillside houses swept away by oozing earth, floo...
Cyclone recovery expected to cost New Zealand billions
Feb 20, 2023 (AFP)
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins confirmed 11 people have so far died in the wake of the devastating flash flooding and high winds which lashed the North Island las...
Lula visits disaster zone after Brazil floods kill 40
Feb 20, 2023 (AFP)
Rescue workers were racing to find any survivors buried under the mud and rubble after 24 hours of record rain over the weekend triggered violent floods and lan...
Toll rises to above 44,000 after Turkey-Syria quake
Feb 18, 2023 (AFP)
The numbers of people found alive under the rubble have dropped to only a handful in recent days and the head of Turkey's disaster agency, Yunus Sezer, said res...
Turkey quake cuts village in two
Feb 18, 2023 (AFP)
Surrounding the building in Demirkopru village, home to 1,000 people, are bits of debris floating in murky water, broken pavements and lopsided houses. The Febr...
Turkey's deadly quake renews alarm for Istanbul
Feb 17, 2023 (AFP)
Seismologists warn that a massive earthquake is likely to strike Turkey's biggest city -- officially home to 16 million people but estimated to hold up to 20 mi...
Toddler among dead as New Zealand storm toll mounts; international help to come
Feb 17, 2023 (AFP)
The storm has faded into the South Pacific but left a trail of destruction and human suffering across New Zealand's North Island. About 10,000 people are displa...
'I thought I was going to die' S.African flood survivor
Feb 16, 2023 (AFP)
"I thought I was going to die," she told AFP after her ordeal in the small town of Kamhlushwa in Mpumalanga province. "The water was so high and it was swirling...
Survivors plucked from rooftops as New Zealand cyclone kills four
Feb 15, 2023 (AFP)
With the storm now fading into the South Pacific, rescue teams are finally reaching regions cut off by days of torrential rain and gale-force winds. The New Zea...
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