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Tropical storm Sara kills four in Honduras and Nicaragua
Tegucigalpa (AFP) Nov 18, 2024 Tropical storm Sara left at least four people dead in Honduras and Nicaragua over the weekend, while more than 120,000 were left homeless or suffered damages in floods across Central America, officials said Monday. Sara weakened to a tropical depression as it passed through Belize on Sunday and was dissipating while moving over the western Yucatan Peninsula, according to the US National Hurricane Center. One of the dead in hardest-hit Honduras was a three-year-old boy, washed away by a soaring r ... read more |
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Burst dike leaves Filipino farmers under waterAliaga, Philippines (AFP) Nov 19, 2024 Filipino farmer Ferdinand Pascua faces financial ruin after heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi sent torrents of water down a river near his shanty, bursting through an earthen dike and inundating land he has tilled for a decade. ... more 
Magnitude 6.6 quake strikes off Papua New Guinea: USGSSydney (AFP) Nov 15, 2024 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake rattled Papua New Guinea on Friday, the United States Geological Survey said, striking off the country's eastern coast. ... more 
Tropical Storm Sara pounds Honduras with heavy rainTegucigalpa (AFP) Nov 15, 2024 Tropical Storm Sara dumped heavy rains with the potential to cause disastrous flooding Thursday as it churned inland along the northeastern coast of Honduras. ... more 
Half of flood victims in Spain's Valencia 70 and older as epicentre survives fresh alertMadrid (AFP) Nov 14, 2024 Almost half of the people killed in Spain's Valencia region during recent floods were 70 years old or older and 26 were foreigners, authorities said on Thursday. ... more |
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Spain flood epicentre braces for fresh deluge Valencia, Spain (AFP) Nov 13, 2024 Spain's eastern Valencia region braced for more torrential rain on Wednesday, two weeks after the country's worst floods in generations killed more than 200 people there. ... more 
Schools shut as flood-hit Spain braces for more torrential rainMadrid (AFP) Nov 12, 2024 Schools in flood-hit towns in eastern Spain will be closed on Wednesday as the region braces for more torrential rains, officials said. ... more 
Fifth storm in under a month bears down on PhilippinesManila (AFP) Nov 12, 2024 The Philippines issued fresh weather warnings on Tuesday as the fifth major storm in three weeks bore down on the archipelago, days after thousands were evacuated ahead of Typhoon Toraji. ... more 
After hurricanes, two earthquakes jolt crisis-hit CubaHavana (AFP) Nov 10, 2024 Two powerful earthquakes rocked southern Cuba in quick succession on Sunday, US geologists said, just days after the island was struck by a hurricane that knocked out power nationwide. ... more
Flood-hit Spain drenched by wettest October on recordMadrid (AFP) Nov 8, 2024 Spain was soaked in its wettest October on record last month which culminated in catastrophic floods that have killed 219 people and left dozens missing, the government said on Friday. ... more |
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Philippines cleans up after Typhoon Yinxing slams north coast
Manila (AFP) Nov 8, 2024 Authorities cleared uprooted trees and debris in the northern Philippines on Friday as Typhoon Yinxing blew out to sea after pounding the coast overnight, ripping roofs from homes and forcing thousands to seek shelter. But while nearly 30,000 people took cover in government-run facilities in the days and hours before Yinxing made landfall, there were no reported casualties from the typhoon, which came just two weeks after a major storm killed more than 150. Yinxing's 175 kilometres (109 miles) p ... read more 
NASA: Hurricane Helene produced 'enormous' gravity waves in upper atmosphereWashington DC (UPI) Nov 8, 2024 A new technology developed by NASA to predict space weather showed that Hurricane Helene produced "enormous" waves in the Earth's upper atmosphere as it came ashore on Sept. 26, the agency says. ... more |
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South Sudan floods affect 1.4 million, displace 379,000: UNNairobi (AFP) Nov 9, 2024 Devastating flooding in South Sudan is affecting around 1.4 million people, with more than 379,000 displaced, according to a United Nations update that warned about an upsurge in malaria. ... more 
Power restored to much of Cuba after storm causes blackoutHavana (AFP) Nov 9, 2024 Power was restored to much of Cuba on Friday, two days after Hurricane Rafael left the island's 10 million inhabitants without electricity for the second time in a month, authorities said. ... more
Devastating floods in Spain monitored by satellite imageryLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 08, 2024 Torrential rains have unleashed catastrophic flash floods across southern and eastern Spain, with some of the most significant impacts seen in Costa del Sol and Valencia. Satellite technology has be ... more 
Indonesia volcano catapults vast ash tower into skyEast Flores, Indonesia (AFP) Nov 9, 2024 A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted again on Saturday, sending a giant ash tower nine kilometres (more than five miles) into the sky, days after it killed nine people and forced thousands of locals to evacuate. ... more
Submerged cemeteries pile pain on Spain flood survivorsCatarroja, Spain (AFP) Nov 7, 2024 More than a week after surging torrents of muddy water ravaged Spain, flooded cemeteries are making dignified burials for victims impossible and compounding the pain of bereaved survivors. ... more |
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