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6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Indonesia's Sumatra island
Feb 25, 2022 (AFP)
The quake hit the island's north at a depth of 12 kilometres (7.5 miles), about 70 kilometres from the town of Bukittinggi in West Sumatra province, according t...
Two 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),...
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)...
One dead, 10 feared missing in Australia floods
Feb 23, 2022 (AFP)
The body of the drowned 60-year-old was found early Wednesday in the state of Queensland, premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told parliament, describing the incident...
Cyclone Emnati lashes Madagascar
Feb 23, 2022 (AFP)
The cyclone "made landfall around 2300 GMT just north of the southeastern district of Manakara," Faly Aritiana Fabien, a senior official of the National Risk Ma...
Brazil storm toll rises to 186 one week on
Feb 23, 2022 (AFP)
Since the storm, rescue workers have searched for victims, digging through the mud and wreckage left by devastating landslides that mainly hit poor hillside com...
Rescue effort starts as Cyclone Emnati lashes Madagascar
Feb 23, 2022 (AFP)
Faly Aritiana Fabien, a senior official at Madagascar's National Risk Management Office (BNGRC), told AFP no human casualties had been reported but said it was ...
US flood damage risk is underestimated
Feb 23, 2022 (SPX)
In the study, published in Environmental Research Letters, researchers found a high probability of flood damage - including monetary damage, human injury and lo...
UN says 'race against time' as new storm nears Madagascar
Feb 22, 2022 (AFP)
Cyclone Emnati is expected to make landfall on southern Madagascar Tuesday evening -- just weeks after the island was lashed by Cyclone Batsirai on February 5, ...
Italy's Etna spews smoke and ashes, closing airport
Feb 21, 2022 (AFP)
The ash cloud rose 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) into the air above a crater on the southeast of the volcano, the INGV National Institute for Geophysics and Vulcano...
Four children among six dead in DR Congo deluge
Feb 21, 2022 (AFP)
A father, mother and their two children died overnight from Sunday to Monday when a wall of their earthen home collapsed under the pressure of the rain, local o...
High-flying NASA 'NACHOS' instrument may help predict volcanic eruptions
Feb 21, 2022 (SPX)
If successful, NACHOS will be the smallest, highest resolution space-based instrument dedicated to monitoring atmospheric trace gases like sulfur dioxide (SO2) ...
Sirens alert more rain in Brazilian city where 117 have died in flooding
Feb 18, 2022 (AFP)
Sirens warned neighborhoods in the hillside tourist town to leave, with residents still shocked from the rivers of mud that buried homes and swept away cars and...
Race to find survivors after killer Brazil floods
Feb 17, 2022 (AFP)
Streets were turned into torrential rivers of mud burying houses and sweeping away cars and trees in their path in the hillside tourist town north of Rio de Jan...
Deep down temperature shifts give rise to eruptions
Feb 17, 2022 (ESA)
The cataclysmic explosion of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano in January is reported to have been the biggest eruption recorded anywhere on the planet in 3...
Thousands affected as quake hits Guatemala
Feb 16, 2022 (AFP)
The epicenter of the quake, which struck at a depth of 84 kilometers (52 miles), was in the coastal district of Escuintla, less than 100 kilometers southwest of...
Volcano damage to Tonga undersea cable worse than expected
Feb 15, 2022 (AFP)
Tonga Cable Limited chief executive James Panuve said a repair ship had located the severed ends of the 840 kilometre-long cable linking Tonga to Fiji that was ...
Madagascar town levelled after cyclone: aid workers
Feb 12, 2022 (AFP)
The storm left 120 people dead, mainly on the east coast of the Indian Ocean island nation, which took the hardest hit. "For the moment, the initial evaluations...
Madagascar cyclone toll rises to 120
Feb 11, 2022 (AFP)
The national disaster management agency BNGRC said the majority had died in Ikongo district, near the east coast of the Indian Ocean island. About 125,000 peopl...
Madagascar cyclone toll rises to 111
Feb 11, 2022 (AFP)
The national disaster management agency BNGRC said 87 people had died in Ikongo district, near the east coast of the Indian Ocean island. About 30,000 people we...
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