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10 dead, around 20 missing after Hurricane Agatha hits Mexico
Jun 01, 2022 (AFP)
The storm, the first hurricane of the Pacific season, was the strongest to make landfall along Mexico's Pacific coast in May since record keeping began in 1949,...
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...
Cyclones killed 214 in Madagascar this year: UN
May 31, 2022 (AFP)
"Six tropical weather systems hit Madagascar from January to April 2022, killing at least 214 people and affecting about 571,100 across the country," the humani...
Hurricane Agatha drenches Mexican beach resorts
May 31, 2022 (AFP)
Agatha was the strongest storm to make landfall along Mexico's Pacific coast in May since record keeping began in 1949, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) s...
Brazil storm death toll rises to 106
May 31, 2022 (AFP)
The force of the landslides ripped apart houses in neighborhoods including Jardim Monteverde, a poor community just outside the city of Recife. Locals have like...
Hurricane Agatha strengthens en route to southwest Mexico
May 30, 2022 (AFP)
High sea temperatures and Hurricane Agatha's slow speed could give it plenty of time to strengthen before it roars ashore, Alejandra Mendez, general coordinator...
Bolsonaro views disaster zone from air after deadly Brazil rains
May 30, 2022 (AFP)
Releasing an updated toll, authorities said 26 people remained missing in the region around the city of Recife, where days of downpours triggered flooding and l...
Death toll mounts from Brazil downpours as search continues
May 30, 2022 (AFP)
"As of 6:00 pm (2100 GMT) this Sunday, the number of people killed as a result of the rains has reached 79," the civil defense authority of Pernambuco state, wh...
Downpours in Brazil leave at least 34 dead
May 28, 2022 (AFP)
"From last Wednesday until midday this Saturday, 34 deaths were recorded in the state," said the Civil Defense in a statement. The most dramatic event occurred ...
Study explores water content in deep earth volcanic magma
May 27, 2022 (SPX)
Ben Urann, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the University of Wyoming Department of Geology and Geophysics, wa...
6.1-magnitude quake strikes off East Timor
May 27, 2022 (AFP)
The USGS said the quake hit at a depth of 51 kilometres (32 miles) off the eastern tip of Timor island, which is split between East Timor and Indonesia. An AFP ...
Powerful 7.2-magnitude quake rocks southern Peru
May 26, 2022 (AFP)
The quake hit at 7:02 am local time (1202 GMT), at a depth of 218 kilometers (135 miles), according to the USGS, sending people fleeing into the streets. Peru's...
Four million people hit by floods in Bangladesh: UN
May 23, 2022 (AFP)
The Bangladeshi government said the floods, which began last week, had submerged 70 percent of Sylhet district in the northeast and 60 percent of Sunamganj dist...
Fresh floods hit South Africa
May 22, 2022 (AFP)
No fatalities were immediately recorded but there was severe damage to some buildings, mainly in Durban, capital of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province. "We are yet to...
Bangladesh floods recede but millions still marooned
May 22, 2022 (AFP)
Floods are a regular menace to millions of people in low-lying Bangladesh and neighbouring northeast India, but many experts say that climate change is increasi...
Millions stranded, dozens dead as flooding hits Bangladesh and India
May 21, 2022 (AFP)
In Bangladesh, about two million people have been marooned by the worst floods in the country's northeast for nearly two decades. At least 100 villages at Zakig...
Flood-ravaged Australians feel forgotten as election looms
May 19, 2022 (AFP)
"It was like a disaster movie, but I was in it," he told AFP, standing in the still-gutted shell of his house in the town of Lismore. In the aftermath of the fl...
Bad news for the 2022 hurricane season
May 19, 2022 (SPX)
It's called the Loop Current, and it's the 800-pound gorilla of Gulf hurricane risks. When the Loop Current reaches this far north this early in the hurricane s...
Landslides, floods kill at least 10 in India
May 18, 2022 (AFP)
Experts say extreme weather around the world is being driven by climate change, made worse in South Asia by damming, deforestation and over-the-top development ...
Massive Hunga volcano eruption sets new standard for crowdsourcing scientific observation of seismic events
May 18, 2022 (SPX)
SMU geophysicist Stephen Arrowsmith, one of the co-authors of the eruption analysis published in Science, says this was the first time that infrasound waves fro...
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