Morocco was struck by the strongest quake in more than a century on Friday. A devastating earthquake in Morocco is known to have killed more than 2,500 people, but that number is expected to rise. European countries have sent aid following Friday’s catastrophic quake that destroyed homes, blocked roads and wiped entire villages of the…
The lawsuit claims the electric utility failed to shut off power during high winds, resulting in downed lines that ignited blazes Maui county sued the Hawaiian Electric company on Thursday over the fires that devastated Lahaina, saying the utility negligently failed to shut off power despite exceptionally high winds and dry conditions. Witness accounts and…
BOGOTA, Aug 17 (Reuters) – A strong earthquake of 6.3 magnitude struck the Colombian capital Bogota on Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, prompting frightened residents to flee into the street and leading a woman to fall to her death. There were no immediate reports of major damage from the quake, which Colombia’s national…
More than 20,000 residents given until noon on Friday to leave home in face of advancing wildfire that could arrive by weekend Long lines of traffic have clogged the only road out of the Canadian city of Yellowknife, after authorities ordered the first ever evacuation of a capital in the face of an advancing wildfire. More than…
KAHULUI, Hawaii, Aug 10 (Reuters) – The death toll from a wildfire that has turned the resort town of Lahaina on Hawaii’s Maui island into smoldering ruins was expected to rise “very significantly” on Thursday, according to Hawaii Governor Josh Green. Officials have said at least 36 people have died after the fires broke out…
‘There is no magical defence mechanism,’ says Greek prime minister as fires burn in northern Africa and southern Europe Wildfires were burning in at least nine countries across the Mediterranean on Tuesday as blazes spread in Croatia, Italy and Portugal, with thousands of firefighters in Europe and north Africa working to contain flames stoked by…
May 17 (Reuters) – Smoke blanketed the skies over much of Alberta on Wednesday as firefighters from Canada and the U.S. battled raging wildfires that have prompted evacuations, disrupted rail service and shut energy production in Canada’s main oil-producing province. Hot and dry conditions have triggered an intense and early start to wildfire season in…
KALEHE, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 9 (Reuters) – The death toll from flooding in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo crept higher on Tuesday as aid workers found more bodies among the muddy devastation and wounded residents succumbed to their injuries in an underequipped local clinic. The floods, in a remote, mountainous area of South…
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck west of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island on Tuesday, Indonesia’s geophysics agency (BMKG) said, triggering a tsunami warning. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) earlier pegged the quake at 6.9 magnitude. The quake, at 84 kilometer (52.2 miles) depth, triggered an initial tsunami warning, the country’s meteorological department added. The agency asked local…
PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia, April 11 (Reuters) – One of Russia’s most active volcanoes erupted on the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula on Tuesday, shooting a vast cloud of ash far into the sky that smothered villages in drifts of grey volcanic dust and triggered an aviation warning. The Shiveluch volcano erupted just after midnight and reached a…