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'Erratic' cyclone creeps towards eastern Australia
Gold Coast, Australia (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 An "erratic" tropical cyclone lingered off Australia's eastern coast on Thursday, bringing drenching rains and record-breaking waves to a heavily populated region rarely hit by typhoons. Tropical Cyclone Alfred was 250 kilometres (155 miles) east of busy Brisbane city on Thursday afternoon, but government forecasts warned its slow and "erratic" crawl towards the mainland was growing difficult to predict. Some four million people were in the firing line along a 400-kilometre (250-mile) stretch of ... read more |
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Schools reopen in Greece's Santorini as quake activity dropsAthens (AFP) Mar 4, 2025 Schools in the Greek travel island of Santorini and other neighbouring islands reopened Tuesday, with residents returning after a month-long shutdown caused by intense seismic activity. ... more 
Australia readies as cyclone veers towards eastern coastByron Bay, Australia (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 A rare tropical cyclone veered towards Australia's densely populated eastern coast on Wednesday, sparking emergency warnings, closing hundreds of schools, and threatening to flood thousands of homes. ... more 
Heat from the Sun Linked to Seismic Activity on EarthTokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 05, 2025 Seismology has long established that earthquakes result from the movement of tectonic plates, which accumulate strain energy until it is released as seismic activity. However, predicting earthquakes ... more 
Rare tropical cyclone swirls off eastern AustraliaSydney (AFP) Mar 4, 2025 A heavily populated stretch of Australia's eastern coast scrapped major sports fixtures as people battened down Tuesday for what could be the first tropical cyclone to pummel the region in 50 years. ... more |
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Shifting tales renew pressure on Spain flood region leaderMadrid (AFP) Feb 28, 2025 The leader of Spain's flood-hit Valencia region is facing renewed pressure to resign after changing his account of his whereabouts during the deadly disaster and with fresh protests called this weekend. ... more 
How did this man's brain turn to glass? Scientists have a theoryParis (AFP) Feb 27, 2025 A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his brain to glass almost 2,000 years ago. ... more 
Indonesia residents run outside as shallow quake hitsJakarta (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 A shallow 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit near the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said, forcing residents to flee outside but with no damage or casualties reported. ... more 
Santorini seismic activity down but schools stay shuttered: GreeceAthens (AFP) Feb 23, 2025 Seismic activity on the Aegean Sea hotspot of Santorini has been "decreasing" over recent days but schools will remain closed for another week, according to authorities on the Greek island. ... more 
Ill-prepared trekkers swarm Mt Etna for high-altitude selfiesRome (AFP) Feb 21, 2025 Authorities near Sicily's Mount Etna are bracing to control an influx of visitors this weekend, attracted by a two-week flow of lava inspiring high-altitude selfies and other reckless behaviour. ... more |
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Islanders keen to return to Santorini even as quakes continue
Athens (AFP) Feb 19, 2025 Ilias Roussos will never forget the day he was driven from his native island of Santorini with thousands of others by a quake barrage that shows little sign of slowing down after three weeks. "Three of my children were crying, my wife was on edge too," the father of four, 54, told AFP at a summer camp near Athens temporarily housing scores of people who were also forced to leave their homes. One of Greece's top travel destinations, Santorini and its neighbouring islands of Amorgos, Anafi and Ios ... read more
India capital shaken by 4.0-magnitude quakeNew Delhi (AFP) Feb 17, 2025 India's capital New Delhi was jolted awake Monday by powerful tremors from a magnitude 4.0 earthquake, with its epicentre on the edge of the sprawling megacity an hour before dawn. ... more |
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Quakes leave Greek tourist island on tenterhooks Amorgos, Greece (AFP) Feb 17, 2025 For three weeks Dionysia Kobaiou has been dealing with "the anxiety and stress" of her students on the Greek island of Amorgos which has felt thousands of earthquakes. ... more
Emergency declared on second Greek quake-hit islandAthens (AFP) Feb 12, 2025 A second Greek island, Amorgos, was placed in a state of emergency Wednesday with the south Aegean Sea still subject to thousands of mid-level quakes that have already forced most inhabitants to flee neighbouring Santorini. ... more 
Magnitude 7.6 quake shakes Caribbean, tsunami warnings liftedWashington (AFP) Feb 9, 2025 A magnitude 7.6 quake rattled the Caribbean Sea on Saturday about 130 miles (209 kilometers) off the coast of the Cayman Islands, triggering tsunami warnings that were later lifted, US monitoring agencies said. ... more
Greek PM insists no danger from Santorini quake swarmAthens (AFP) Feb 7, 2025 Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis insisted Friday there was no "immediate danger" from an unprecedented wave of quakes on the tourist island of Santorini that has forced thousands of residents to leave. ... more 
Fresh quake barrage hits Greek island SantoriniAthens (AFP) Feb 6, 2025 A fresh series of quakes hit the Aegean island of Santorini early on Thursday, part of an unprecedented seismic wave that has baffled scientists and led to a mass exodus of residents. ... more |
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