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Nearly 80 dead from Tropical Storm Ana in southern Africa
Jan 27, 2022 (AFP)
Bringing torrential rains, Tropical Storm Ana made landfall Monday in Madagascar before ploughing into Mozambique and Malawi. Rescue workers and authorities acr...
6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes off Tonga
Jan 27, 2022 (AFP)
The epicentre of the strong quake was 219 kilometres (136 miles) northwest of Pangai, a town on the remote island of Lifuka, at a depth of 14.5 kilometres. Ther...
70 dead from Tropical Storm Ana in southern Africa
Jan 27, 2022 (AFP)
Packing torrential rains, Tropical Storm Ana made landfall Monday in Madagascar before ploughing into Mozambique and Malawi. Rescue workers and authorities acro...
Mozambican officials swept away in storm-swollen river
Jan 26, 2022 (AFP)
The car was trying to cross the Revuboe River, after a bridge had collapsed when Ana tore through the region earlier this week, Tete provincial governor Domingo...
Workers in Peru race to reopen Machu Picchu after floods
Jan 26, 2022 (AFP)
Heavy downfalls on Friday caused the Alcamayo river that runs through the small tourist town of Machu Picchu Pueblo -- at the foot of the mountain that boasts t...
Tonga eruption was so intense, it caused atmosphere to ring like a bell
Jan 25, 2022 (The Conversation)
The atmospheric wave pattern close to the eruption was quite complicated, but thousands of miles away it appeared as an isolated wave front traveling horizontal...
Almost 900 evacuated from Machu Picchu area as rains slam Peru
Jan 25, 2022 (AFP)
"So far, in coordination with the Inka Rail and Peru Rail companies, 889 tourists who were stranded by the overflow of the Alccamayo River last Friday at dawn h...
Tropical storm kills 46 in Madagascar, Mozambique, Malawi
Jan 25, 2022 (AFP)
The storm, which formed over the east coast of Africa's largest island Madagascar, has brought heavy rains causing flooding and mudslides in the capital Antanan...
Dramatic Changes at Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai
Jan 25, 2022 (SPX)
The digital elevation maps above and below show the dramatic changes at Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, the uppermost part of a large underwater volcano. It rises 1....
Tonga eruption equivalent to hundreds of Hiroshimas: NASA
Jan 24, 2022 (AFP)
The NASA Earth Observatory said the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano spewed debris as high as 40 kilometres (25 miles) into the atmosphere during the January 1...
At least two killed in Haiti quake, 200 houses destroyed
Jan 24, 2022 (AFP)
In Anse-a-Veau, a small coastal town 130 kilometers (80 miles) west of the capital Port-au-Prince, a woman died when a wall collapsed. In Fonds-des-Negres, 20 k...
Tonga volcano eruption was like 'atomic bomb'
Jan 21, 2022 (AFP)
Almost a week after the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano exploded, unleashing a tsunami and cutting Tonga off from the rest of the world, witnesses are recount...
Sulphur dioxide from Tonga eruption spreads over Australia
Jan 21, 2022 (ESA)
Sending tsunami waves across the Pacific, the effects of this underwater eruption were felt as far away as the United States and Japan. Sonic booms from the eru...
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Erupts
Jan 20, 2022 (SPX)
The volcano had sporadically erupted multiple times since 2009. The most recent activity began in late December 2021 as a series of Surtseyan eruptions built up...
Dynamics of mega earthquakes and tsunamis unraveled
Jan 20, 2022 (SPX)
LMU geophysicists Thomas Ulrich and Alice-Agnes Gabriel, in collaboration with Elizabeth Madden (University of Brasilia), have now identified three key regional...
Philippines volcanic eruption in 2020 fueled hours-long thunderstorm
Jan 20, 2022 (SPX)
The January 2020 eruption of Taal volcano in the Philippines showed how a powerful volcanic eruption becomes electrified, giving off thousands of cloud-to-groun...
Images reveal devastation in tsunami-hit Tonga
Jan 18, 2022 (AFP)
The volcano erupted 30 kilometres (19 miles) into the air on Saturday and deposited ash, gas and acid rain across a large area of the Pacific. In the tsunami th...
15-metre tsunami causes 'unprecedented disaster' in Tonga
Jan 18, 2022 (AFP)
In an "unprecedented disaster", one village was completely wiped out while only a few houses remained standing in several other settlements scattered across the...
Rescuers search for survivors after deadly Afghan quake
Jan 18, 2022 (AFP)
Monday afternoon's shallow 5.3-magnitude quake jolted Qadis district in Badghis province, a rural area not easily accessible by road. "The earthquake caused mas...
Rescuers search for survivors after deadly Afghan quakes
Jan 18, 2022 (AFP)
Rescuers meanwhile searched for more survivors of Monday afternoon's quakes that jolted Qadis district in the western Badghis province, a rural area not easily ...
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