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Vanuatu on alert as submerged volcano erupts
Feb 01, 2023 (AFP)
"We are telling locals to watch out for any strong explosions as the eruptions are still ongoing," senior volcano officer Ricardo William, at the meteorology an...
6.0-magnitude quake rocks southern Philippines
Feb 01, 2023 (AFP)
The shallow quake struck at 6:44 pm (1044 GMT), near Monkayo municipality in Davao de Oro province on Mindanao island. Shallow earthquakes tend to cause more da...
5.9-magnitude quake in Iran kills three, injures hundreds
Jan 29, 2023 (AFP)
The shallow quake hit the city of Khoy in West Azerbaijan province at 9:44 pm (1814 GMT), the Seismological Center of the University of Tehran said. "This incid...
5.9-magnitude quake in Iran kills two, injures hundreds
Jan 29, 2023 (AFP)
The shallow quake hit the city of Khoy in West Azerbaijan province at 9:44pm (1814 GMT), the Seismological Center of the University of Tehran said. "So far this...
Four dead after record flooding in New Zealand
Jan 29, 2023 (AFP)
The country's largest city saw 249 millimetres of rainfall on Friday, smashing the previous record of 161mm in a 24-hour period, and Auckland's 1.6 million resi...
Tens of thousands homeless after Madagascar tropical storm
Jan 29, 2023 (AFP)
Cyclone Cheneso smashed into northeastern Madagascar 10 days ago, bringing heavy winds and triggering downpours that have caused extensive flooding. Over the we...
Authorities raise alert level around Lascar volcano in northern Chile
Jan 28, 2023 (AFP)
The volcano lies in an area near the Bolivian border that is sparsely inhabited but is one of northern Chile's most geologically active regions. Following "an i...
Three dead, one missing after record rain in New Zealand
Jan 28, 2023 (AFP)
During a press conference after visiting some of the waterlogged communities, Hipkins said flash flooding had led to "three fatalities with one person still mis...
Death toll from Madagascar storm rises to 22
Jan 27, 2023 (AFP)
Another 20 people are missing after the storm flooded several districts and cut roads linking them to the capital Antananarivo. An updated tally sent to AFP by ...
Two dead, two missing after heavy New Zealand flooding
Jan 27, 2023 (AFP)
The bodies of two men were found in floodwaters in two separate incidents in a northern suburb, police said. The flooding also swept a man away in a community s...
Looking back at the Tonga eruption
Jan 27, 2023 (SPX)
"We showed that the eruption consisted of two distinct sequences of events, some of which occurred quasi-periodically in the first sequence. It will be worthwhi...
Venice recruits next generation in flooding fight
Jan 25, 2023 (AFP)
On Torcello, an island located in the northern part of the lagoon, around 40 five-year-olds this week attended an outdoor lesson on the shores damaged by the wa...
One killed, two injured in Nepal quake; Three dead as building collapses in India
Jan 24, 2023 (AFP)
The 5.6-magnitude quake's epicentre was in hilly Bajura district, 400 kilometres (250 miles) west of Kathmandu, according to the US Geological Survey. The jolt ...
7.0-magnitude quake hits eastern Indonesia, tsunami warning lifted
Jan 18, 2023 (AFP)
There were no immediate reports of casualties but light damage was reported on at least one island. The epicentre of the tremor was located 150 kilometres (93 m...
Looking back at the eruption that shook the world
Jan 17, 2023 (ESA)
Satellites orbiting Earth scrambled to capture images and data of the aftermath of the disaster. Almost a year later, you can now listen to a sonification of th...
6.2-magnitude quake hits off Indonesia's Sumatra: USGS
Jan 16, 2023 (AFP)
The epicentre of the quake was 48 kilometres (30 miles) south-southeast of the city of Singkil in Aceh province, at a depth of 37 kilometres, USGS said. It occu...
Flooded three times in two weeks, California town is fed up
Jan 15, 2023 (AFP)
"I'm so angry, it just makes me want to cry," said Shaffer, a 59-year-old Briton wearing boots covered in muck. It was only a few days ago that she cleaned up h...
Latvia hit by worst flood in decades
Jan 15, 2023 (AFP)
"It will be near impossible to get you out from among the ice cold sludge once it rushes into your homes," Raivis Ragainis, mayor of the city of Jekabpils, warn...
Body of US hurricane victim, 82, discovered three months on
Jan 13, 2023 (AFP)
Ilonka Knes was one of two people still reported as missing since Ian brought surging waters and Category 4-strength winds to Florida's low-lying west coast. He...
Forecasting earthquakes that get off schedule
Jan 12, 2023 (SPX)
Seismologists commonly assume that big earthquakes on faults are pretty regular and that the next quake will occur after approximately the same amount of time a...
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