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Strong quake, small tsunamis hit southern Japan with minor damage

Aug 08, 2024 (AFP)

The quake hit at 4:42 pm (0742 GMT) off Kyushu at a depth of 25 kilometres (16 miles), the United States Geological Survey said. The USGS had initially reported...

Tropical Storm Debby makes second US landfall in days

Aug 08, 2024 (AFP)

Debby made landfall near Bulls Bay South Carolina, about 20 miles (35 kilometres) northeast of Charleston, the NHC said in an morning advisory, warning of major...

45 reported dead in torrential rains in Yemen

Aug 07, 2024 (AFP)

Flash floods caused 15 deaths in Maqbanah in the southwestern province of Taez on Friday, UN humanitarian agency OCHA said on social media platform X. In the Hu...

NOAA predicts fewer high-tide coastal flood days for this year, next

Aug 07, 2024 (UPI)

The report's prediction is for a median range of four to eight high-tide flood days from May 2024 to April 2025. "NOAA predicts that from May 2024 to April 2025...

Heavy rains kill 17 in war-torn Sudan

Aug 06, 2024 (AFP)

"The number of victims has risen to 17," said an employee at a hospital in Abu Hamad, a small town in Sudan's River Nile state, some 400 kilometres (nearly 250 ...

Heavy rains kill nine in war-torn Sudan

Aug 06, 2024 (AFP)

"Nine people have died as a result of their houses collapsing," said an employee at a hospital in Abu Hamad, a small town in Sudan's Nile state, some 400 kilome...

Four killed after Storm Debby hits Florida coast

Aug 06, 2024 (AFP)

A 13-year-old boy died when a tree was blown onto a mobile home in Levy County, the sheriff's office there said, after Debby made landfall on Florida's Gulf Coa...

Five dead as Storm Debby moves through US southeast

Aug 06, 2024 (AFP)

A 13-year-old boy died when a tree was blown onto a mobile home in Levy County, the sheriff's office there said, after Debby made landfall on Florida's Gulf Coa...

Debby now a hurricane, threatens Florida, other parts of US southeast

Aug 05, 2024 (AFP)

Debby grew rapidly into a Category One hurricane, the lowest on a five-stage scale, thanks to unusually warm Gulf of Mexico and is expected to slam into Florida...

New flooding keeps parts of Latvia under water

Aug 04, 2024 (AFP)

The local administration in the Latvian city of Jelgava said on Sunday that areas of Lithuania "have been overflooded and the excess waters are now reaching Jel...

Sicily's Catania airport back in service after Etna activity

Aug 04, 2024 (AFP)

Earlier in the day, the airport announced that due to volcanic activity Sunday morning, arriving flights would be reduced to six per hour and that one section o...

6.8-magnitude earthquake hits off Philippines' Mindanao

Aug 03, 2024 (AFP)

The shallow quake hit just before 6:30 am (2230 GMT) about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the village of Barcelona on the east of Mindanao island, USGS said. Man...

Saudi flash flood kills one

Aug 03, 2024 (AFP)

State television news channel Al-Ekhbariya aired images of two vehicles caught up in the floodwaters, one of them crushed by a collapsed bridge support. It said...

Tropical Storm Debby forms in Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Carlotta, TS Daniel active in the Pacific Ocean

Aug 03, 2024 (UPI)

In the 5 p.m. update from the National Hurricane Center, Debby was about 70 miles northwest of Havana, Cuba, and about 160 miles south-southwest of Key West, Fl...

Rear Adm. Chad Cary to head NOAA corps overseeing research, hurricane planes

Aug 02, 2024 (UPI)

Part of his duties are to oversee NOAA's fleet of 15 research and survey ships and 10 specialized aircraft that include NOAA's hurricane hunters. "Rear Adm. Car...

South Korea says no response from North on flood relief offer

Aug 02, 2024 (AFP)

Seoul's unification ministry said in a statement Thursday that it was willing to "urgently provide" humanitarian assistance to "North Korean disaster victims" i...

Indian army teams scour landslide site for remaining dead

Aug 02, 2024 (AFP)

The number of fatal floods and landslides in India has increased in recent years and experts say climate change is exacerbating the problem. Days of torrential ...

Forecasters predict Tropical Storm Carlotta to grow into hurricane

Aug 01, 2024 (UPI)

In its 8 a.m. MST update, the NHC said Carlottta was located about 455 miles west-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico, is already packing maximum sustained winds of...

N. Korea floods may have caused 'heavy casualties': Seoul

Aug 01, 2024 (AFP)

Pyongyang's state media said Thursday that some parts of the country in the north, near the border with China, "have recently been stricken severely by flooding...

5.0 quake hits Italy's Calabria, no immediate damage

Aug 01, 2024 (AFP)

The quake was centred three kilometres west of Pietrapaola in the province of Cosenza on the Ionian Sea, according to the National Institute of Geophysics and V...