Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano has spewed out hot clouds in eruptions that forced about 250 residents to flee to temporary shelters and left ash blanketing nearby villages and towns. The volcano on the densely populated island of Java unleashed clouds … Read More
Pampilhosa da Serra (Portugal) (AFP) – In central Portugal, a sustained drought has revealed the ruins of a village that was totally submerged underwater when a large reservoir was created nearly 70 years ago. “I have never seen that!” says … Read More
Tzfat Mayor warns: A powerful earthquake will happen. Without government assistance, thousands will be killed. Shuki Ohana, Mayor of the northern Israeli city of Tzfat (Safed), on Wednesday warned of an earthquake disaster in which thousands of residents of the … Read More
South Korea says earthquakes highlight the area’s geological instability as Pyongyang hinted it could resume testing for the first time since 2017. North Korea’s nuclear test site has been struck by a series of small, natural earthquakes, South Korea has … Read More
The past 22 years rank as the driest period since at least 800 A.D. The extreme heat and dry conditions of the past few years pushed what was already an epic, decades-long drought in the American West into a historic … Read More
Baku, AZERTAC A volcanic eruption in Tonga that triggered a tsunami was hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima during World War Two, Nasa says, according to BBC. The eruption “obliterated” a volcanic … Read More
Ten people have died, including some caught in the collapse of a house in the town of Ambalavao, as cyclone Batsirai triggered floods in Madagascar. A cyclone has killed at least 10 people in southeastern Madagascar, triggering floods, bringing down … Read More
Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said ITV News’ coverage of the famine in Afghanistan has made “it impossible for the rest of the world to ignore” as he warned that “something must be done now”. Mr Brown described pictures … Read More
Taipei, Feb. 7 (CNA) Taiwan was shaken by a magnitude 5.5 earthquake located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Yilan County at 6:58 p.m. Monday, according to the Central Weather Bureau. The epicenter of the temblor was located … Read More
ISLAMABAD – A 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit Islamabad, Rawalpindi and several other cities of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Saturday morning. According to Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), the epicenter of the quake was Hindukush region, Afghanistan, and it occurred at 9:16 … Read More