SHAKE AND BLOW

News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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Romania earthquake felt across eastern Europe
Feb 14, 2023 (AFP)
Local reports and social media posts indicated minor damage to buildings and cars in Romania, and showed people hastily exiting buildings. No injuries or signif...
Asphalt volcano communities
Feb 14, 2023 (SPX)
Marine scientists have compiled the first detailed description of the animal communities that call these formations home. The findings, published in the Bulleti...
Storm-battered N. Zealand declares national state of emergency
Feb 14, 2023 (AFP)
High winds and heavy rain lashed the country's North Island overnight in what officials called an "unprecedented weather event". "It's been a big night for New ...
S.Africa floods kill 12, affect Kruger National Park
Feb 14, 2023 (AFP)
The bad weather -- which is expected to last for the rest of the week -- struck the east, north and south, claiming lives in four of South Africa's nine provinc...
Once home to civilisations, fabled Antioch left in ruins
Feb 13, 2023 (AFP)
Once a home to a myriad of civilisations, the southern city of Antakya lies in ruins after last Monday's 7.8-magnitude quake. Fourteen centuries of history were...
S.Africa declares national disaster as floods kill 7
Feb 13, 2023 (AFP)
Heavy rains have hit large parts of the country, and the deluge is expected to continue, according to the national weather service. The government has "declared...
Flights grounded, power cut as storm lashes N.Zealand
Feb 13, 2023 (AFP)
A state of emergency was declared in five regions on the North Island, covering almost one-third of New Zealand's entire population of 5.1 million. Although the...
New Zealand readies for impact of Cyclone Gabrielle
Feb 12, 2023 (AFP)
Cyclone Gabrielle is forecast to envelop the upper half of the North Island over a 48-hour period from Sunday evening, two weeks after parts of the same region ...
Mozambique floods kill four in capital area
Feb 11, 2023 (AFP)
The National Institute for Disaster Management (INGD) said the deaths happened around the capital Maputo, while 14,000 people were evacuated out of more than 30...
Turkey, Syria quake toll tops 16,000 as cold compounds misery
Feb 09, 2023 (AFP)
The death toll from Monday's 7.8-magnitude quake is expected to rise sharply as rescue efforts pass the 72-hour mark that disaster experts consider the most lik...
New method helps scientists better predict when volcanos will erupt
Feb 09, 2023 (SPX)
In recent years, scientists have used satellite imagery, earthquake data and GPS to search for ground deformation near active volcanoes, but those techniques ca...
Death toll tops 21,000 from Turkey-Syria quake as hopes fade
Feb 09, 2023 (AFP)
The chief of the World Health Organisation said he was on his way to Syria, as bitter cold hampered the search of thousands of flattened buildings and threatene...
Earthquake kills more than 4,300 in Turkey, Syria
Feb 07, 2023 (AFP)
The confirmed death toll across the two countries has soared above 4,300 after a swarm of strong tremors near the Turkey-Syria border -- the largest of which me...
Aleppo buries its dead as quake imperils cross-border aid to Syria
Feb 07, 2023 (AFP)
Rescuers in Aleppo, Syria's pre-war commercial hub battered by years of conflict, scoured for survivors in the biting winter cold Tuesday as residents buried th...
Earthquake kills more than 4,800 in Turkey, Syria
Feb 07, 2023 (AFP)
Disaster agencies said several thousand buildings were flattened in cities across a vast border region -- pouring misery on an area already plagued by war, insu...
Quake kills over 1,200 across Turkey, Syria
Feb 06, 2023 (AFP)
The 7.8-magnitude night-time tremor, followed hours later by a slightly smaller one, wiped out entire sections of major Turkish cities in a region filled with m...
Earthquake kills more than 3,800 in Turkey, Syria
Feb 06, 2023 (AFP)
Dozens of nations pledged aid after the 7.8-magnitude quake, which hit as people were still sleeping and amid freezing weather that has hampered emergency effor...
Quake kills dozens in rebel-held areas of Syria: rescue workers
Feb 06, 2023 (AFP)
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck before dawn near the Turkish city of Gaziantep, about 40 kilometres from the Syrian border. It left northwestern Syria "in a...
Major quake kills hundreds across Turkey, Syria
Feb 06, 2023 (AFP)
One of the largest quakes to strike Turkey in a century wiped out entire sections of major cities in a region filled with millions of people who have fled the c...
Ice cores show even dormant volcanoes leak abundant sulfur into the atmosphere
Feb 03, 2023 (SPX)
The study, led by the University of Washington and published Jan. 2 in Geophysical Research Letters, has implications for better understanding Earth's atmospher...
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