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News About Earthquakes And Cyclonic Storms

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17 die as cyclone lashes Mozambique, Malawi
Mar 13, 2022 (AFP)
Cyclone Gombe has affected more than 30,000 people, injuring 40, and destroyed more than 3,000 homes since making landfall on Friday. Powerful winds reaching 17...
Cyclone kills eight in Mozambique
Mar 11, 2022 (AFP)
Among the victims was a child crushed in the collapse of a house in Monapo, the institute said, raising the toll to eight. President Filipe Nyusi had earlier an...
Prayers in Japan 11 years after tsunami and nuclear disaster
Mar 11, 2022 (AFP)
A minute's silence will be held at 2:46 pm (0546 GMT), the moment a 9.0-magnitude quake -- among the strongest ever recorded -- struck off northeastern Japan on...
Hundreds flee their homes as Indonesian volcano erupts
Mar 10, 2022 (AFP)
The volcano -- one of the most active in the world -- erupted multiple times overnight, spewing gas, volcanic ash and rocks that flowed over five kilometres dow...
Earthquake fracture energy relates to how a quake stops
Mar 09, 2022 (SPX)
This modeling revelation could help science inch closer to making accurate earthquake forecasts. "We realized that observations we thought were related to how f...
Australia floods force tens of thousands to evacuate
Mar 08, 2022 (AFP)
The national weather bureau warned of "a tough 48 hours ahead" for the city, with 60,000 people subject to evacuation orders and warnings across the affected ar...
Flood-ravaged eastern Australia braces for more wild weather
Mar 06, 2022 (AFP)
The national weather bureau warned of severe thunderstorms and major flooding in the state of Queensland, where 11 people died in the past week's floods. Flash ...
Australia orders 200,000 to flee floods, city of Sydney spared
Mar 03, 2022 (AFP)
Authorities issued severe rain and wind warnings for a 400-kilometre (250-mile) stretch of the coast as water levels rose rapidly -- including in suburbs around...
Australia orders 200,000 to flee floods moving towards Sydney
Mar 03, 2022 (AFP)
Authorities issued severe rain and wind warnings for a 400-kilometre (250-mile) stretch of coast as water levels rose rapidly -- including in suburbs around Syd...
Australians flee floods as toll rises to 12, Sydney on alert
Mar 02, 2022 (AFP)
The death toll rose to 12 in a week-long disaster that has washed cars from roads and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes as waters lappe...
Hundreds of thousands at risk as Australian floods spread to Sydney
Mar 02, 2022 (AFP)
A week-long torrential downpour has swollen rivers and reservoirs past bursting point, causing chaos in an area 800 kilometres (500 miles) long. From Brisbane t...
Australia tells tens of thousands to flee floods
Mar 01, 2022 (AFP)
Dozens of emergency warnings are in effect across the states of Queensland and New South Wales, where a week-long "rain bomb" has dumped a metre (3.2 feet) of w...
Rooftop rescues as tens of thousands evacuated from Australia floods
Feb 28, 2022 (AFP)
Seven people have died, and the country's weather bureau has warned further severe thunderstorms and intense rainfall will cause "life-threatening flash floodin...
Rooftop rescues in Australia as tens of thousands evacuated from floods
Feb 28, 2022 (AFP)
Eight people have died, and the country's weather bureau has warned further severe thunderstorms and intense rainfall will cause "life-threatening flash floodin...
Australian 'rain bomb' floods claim sixth life
Feb 27, 2022 (AFP)
Police in the state of Queensland said a 34-year-old man had died after his car became submerged in floodwaters around 2:30am on Sunday (1530 GMT Saturday). Whi...
12,000 displaced by floods in Malaysia
Feb 27, 2022 (AFP)
The tropical Southeast Asian nation was hit by bouts of bad weather over the weekend, as continuous rain swamped towns on the peninsula's east coast. Malaysia o...
Deadly rains, floods hit eastern Australia
Feb 26, 2022 (AFP)
Police in the eastern state of Queensland said they had found the body of a 37-year-old man, raising the flooding death toll to five people since early this wee...
Deadly floods hit eastern Australia
Feb 26, 2022 (AFP)
Authorities in the eastern state of Queensland issued 11 emergency alerts in 24 hours as the overall death toll from days of flooding rose to four, with two mor...
Indonesian rescuers search for survivors after deadly earthquake
Feb 26, 2022 (AFP)
The 6.2-magnitude quake hit the island's north at a depth of 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) minutes after a less violent tremor Friday morning, according to the Unit...
Seven dead as 6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Indonesia's Sumatra
Feb 25, 2022 (AFP)
The quake came just minutes after a less violent tremor, as terrified residents had begun evacuating their houses. "We all fled our home (after the first quake)...
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