SHAKE AND BLOW

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Two million stranded as floods hit Bangladesh again
Jun 17, 2022 (AFP)
Floods are a regular menace to millions of people in low-lying Bangladesh, but experts say climate change is increasing their frequency, ferocity and unpredicta...
Dozens rescued by helicopter in Yellowstone floods
Jun 16, 2022 (AFP)
Over three days Montana National Guard units scrambled to reach 87 people cut off by raging rivers that have swept through the park and its surroundings followi...
Thousands flock to Indonesian volcano for Hindu ritual sacrifice
Jun 16, 2022 (AFP)
Every year people from the Tengger tribe gather from villages in the highlands around Mount Bromo to trek to its peak to cast goats, chickens, fruit, flowers an...
Parts of storm-wrecked Yellowstone to remain shut all year
Jun 15, 2022 (AFP)
Roads have been washed out in the northern portion of the 9,000 square kilometer (3,400 square mile) park after torrential rainfall and snowmelt sent months' wo...
Scientists provide explanation for exceptional Tonga tsunami
Jun 14, 2022 (SPX)
In a new paper published today in Nature, an international team including researchers from Cardiff University say the exceptional event was caused by acoustic-g...
Yellowstone Park closed as swollen river destroys roads
Jun 14, 2022 (AFP)
All entrances to the park remained closed Tuesday, with rangers warning of "extremely hazardous conditions" brought about by a raging river and torrential rainf...
15 dead, half million impacted by heavy rains in Guatemala
Jun 14, 2022 (AFP)
Among the 15 fatalities were a woman and her six children, as well as three brothers, all minors, from two indigenous villages, said the office of the Coordinat...
Lab earthquakes show how grains at fault boundaries lead to major quakes
Jun 13, 2022 (SPX)
Along some fault lines, which are the boundaries of tectonic plates, a fine-grained gravel is formed as the plates grind against one another. The influence of t...
Yellowstone's history of hydrothermal explosions over the past 14,000 years
Jun 13, 2022 (SPX)
The Yellowstone Lake area in Yellowstone National Park hosts at least eight large craters produced by hydrothermal explosions, including three of the largest hy...
Death toll in Turkey floods rises to five
Jun 13, 2022 (AFP)
The body of a person reported missing two days ago was found in the Ankara region on Monday afternoon, the Turkish disaster and emergency management authority, ...
Volcano ash blankets Philippine towns after second eruption this week
Jun 12, 2022 (AFP)
The blast from Bulusan volcano lasted 18 minutes, the Philippine seismological agency said, impairing road visibility and forcing airlines to cancel flights. On...
Dozens still missing two months after S.Africa's worst floods
Jun 12, 2022 (AFP)
The death toll from the raging floods and landslides has climbed to 461, with 87 people still unaccounted for, southeastern KwaZulu-Natal provincial government ...
Heavy rains leave 10 dead, hundreds of thousands displaced in China
Jun 09, 2022 (AFP)
The downpours, which began on June 1, have forced the evacuation of around 286,000 people, with more than 2,700 homes collapsed or seriously damaged, the offici...
Great timing, supercomputer upgrade lead to volcanic eruption forecast
Jun 06, 2022 (SPX)
Initially developed on an iMac computer, the new modeling approach had already garnered attention for successfully recreating the unexpected eruption of Alaska'...
Ash covers towns after Philippines volcano eruption
Jun 05, 2022 (AFP)
The blast from Bulusan volcano in the rural Sorsogon province lasted about 17 minutes, sending a grey plume shooting up at least one kilometre (0.6 miles), acco...
Five questions to help you understand hurricanes and climate change
Jun 02, 2022 (SPX)
But what's the recipe for hurricane formation, and how is the behavior of these storms changing as Earth's long-term warming trend continues? NASA research answ...
Mexico lowers Hurricane Agatha toll to nine dead
Jun 02, 2022 (AFP)
Agatha barreled ashore on Monday near Puerto Angel in Oaxaca state as a Category Two hurricane, the second lowest on a scale of five, causing flooding, landslid...
Papua New Guinea's Ulawun volcano erupts
Jun 02, 2022 (AFP)
The country's Geohazards Management Division reported "continuous forceful emissions of thick grey ash clouds" from the volcano for about 15 minutes. Mount Ulaw...
Four killed, 14 injured as quakes hit southwest China
Jun 01, 2022 (AFP)
A shallow 6.1-magnitude quake hit a sparsely populated area in Sichuan province about 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of provincial capital Chengdu, broadcaster ...
Shallow quake hits Sichuan, southwest China
Jun 01, 2022 (AFP)
The quake struck a sparsely populated area in Lushan County of Ya'an City, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of the provincial capital Chengdu. The China Ear...
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