Severe floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains have claimed at least 33 lives in Yemen’s Al-Mahwit Province, as of Thursday, August 29, 2024. This brings the total number of fatalities since the start of the kharif rainy season to 119. Major floods and landslides hit Al-Mahwit’s Melhan Province...

Floods and landslides claim 33 lives in Yemen’s Al-Mahwit Province, bringing the death toll to 119

Conakry, the capital of Guinea, experienced severe flooding on August 24, 2024, following unusually heavy rainfall. The floods claimed two lives, left one person missing, and caused substantial damage. This was the first major flood in Conakry in 2024. Heavy torrential rains brought intense flooding to Conakry on August 24,...

Severe floods in Conakry claim 2 lives and leave 1 missing, Guinea

Japanese authorities are urging people across their country to take precautions against the possibility of a mega-earthquake in the coming days; if such a huge earthquake were to occur, there could be significant tsunami impacts across Hawaii and the west coast of North America. A strong magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck...

Megaquake Earthquake Advisory Issued; Expires in 7 Days

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SHOCKING footage shows the terrifying moment a 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocked Japan – sparking a tsunami warning. Waves struck the city of Miyazaki on the southwestern island of Kyushu – less than 30 minutes after the 6.9 magnitude quake hit. Warnings have been lifted in several coastal areas of Kyushu and the nearby island of […]

Terrifying moment huge 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocks Japan as tsunami hits shores and people flee swinging buildings

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A volcano near a major naval base on Russia's eastern coast erupted early Sunday after a powerful magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck in the Pacific about 63 miles away, according to Russian state-run media. It briefly triggered a "code red" warning for aircraft.The Shiveluch volcano spewed an ash column as high as 5 mils above sea level and released a gush of lava, Tass news agency reported Sunday morning, citing scientists with the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.The volcano is about 280 miles from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a coastal city of more than 181,000...

Volcano erupts in Russia after powerful magnitude-7.0 earthquake

Wading through muddy floodwaters up to chest height, hundreds of people slowly make their way to safety, their belongings held high above their heads to keep them dry.

Millions in this country are stranded by flooding. Many blame their neighbor

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A magnitude 4.7 earthquake rattled the Big Island of Hawaii on Thursday while storms developed in the Pacific.

Earthquake shakes Hawaii's Big Island as storms loom in the Pacific

California Highway Patrol -- an organization made world-famous by the 1970s TV series "CHiPs" -- closed the southbound I5 freeway in downtown Los Angeles after the early morning smash. Reports said several vehicles had been involved in the collision, including a large truck carrying frozen fries. Footage from the scene...

CHiPs: French fries spill shuts California highway

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Stunning images show stretches of smoke, debris and lava spilling from Sicily's famous volcano - one of the most active in the world

Mount Etna erupts sending lava plumes miles into sky days after mass disruption amid increased activity

Tropical Storm Fabio formed over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico on Monday morning. At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Fabio was located at latitude 14.8°N and longitude 106.9°W which put the center about 335 miles (540 km) southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico. Fabio was moving toward the northwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 km/h). The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km/h). The minimum surface pressure was 1006 mb.

Tropical Storm Fabio Forms Southwest of Mexico

Tens of thousands of people have been asked to evacuate in Tokyo as Shanshan, now a tropical storm, continued its northward march across the country. Six people have died and dozens were injured as the storm made landfall as a typhoon on Thursday, one of the most powerful to hit the country’s southwest in decades.

Japan Typhoon Shanshan – live: Parts of Tokyo ordered to evacuate as storm set to bring heavy rain for days

Typhoon Shanshan soaked large swathes of Japan with torrential rain on Friday, prompting warnings for flooding and landslides hundreds of miles from the storm's centre, halting travel services and shutting production at major factories.

Typhoon Shanshan drenches Japan, prompting landslide and flood alerts

As monsoon rains were about to break over Pakistan, 14-year-old Shamila and her 13-year-old sister Amina were married off in exchange for money, a decision their parents made to help the family survive the threat of floods. In Khan Mohammad Mallah village, where Shamila and Amina were married in a joint ceremony in June, 45 underage girls have become wives since the last monsoon -- 15 of them in May and June this year. 

'Monsoon brides': Extreme weather fuels Pakistan child marriages

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Laura Conover has won a second term as Pima County attorney, as results from Arizona’s primary election to choose party representatives in races for Pima County attorney, sheriff, treasurer and board of supervisors seats rolled in Tuesday night.

Pima County primary election results: Attorney Laura Conover and Sheriff Chris Nanos win

Typhoon Shanshan weakened to a tropical storm Friday but was still dumping heavy rains as it slowly churned through Japan, triggering transport havoc and landslide warnings, with up to six people killed. The storm, which at landfall was one of the fiercest to hit Japan in decades, pummelled Kyushu island...

Weakening typhoon churns through Japan, leaving at least five dead

A series of moderate to very strong earthquakes hit near the coast of Mindanao, Philippines, on August 2 and 3, 2024. The strongest in the series was M6.8 at 22:23 UTC on August 2, at a depth of 25.8 km (16 miles), followed by M6.3 at 04:20 UTC on August 3, at a depth of 15.9 km (10 miles).

Strong M6.8 earthquake, series of strong aftershocks hit near the coast of Mindanao, Philippines

Rescuers have recovered the body of 34-year-old Archil Badriashvili, a Georgian alpinist who lost his life after an accident on Mount Shkhelda in the country’s northwestern area, officials have confirmed. Badriashvili went missing at approximately 3,800 metres while descending with three other climbers. The American Alpine Club reported that...

Alpine Climber Dies After Lightning Strike

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Actor Van Johnson, who died in 2007, was one of Hollywood's ideal films idols. In the 1940s, the charming screen icon was box office gold, and remained a popular presence on TV in shows like Murder, She Wrote (which starred his good friend Angela Lansbury).

The Secret Gay Life & Horrific Car Accident of Actor Van Johnson: 16 Years After His Tragic Death

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A tropical depression moving into the Gulf of Mexico is growing better organized, forecasters said Saturday, and is likely to bring drenching rain and coastal flooding to much of Florida's Gulf Coast

Hurricane watch issued for parts of Florida as Gulf Coast braces for Tropical Storm Debby

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 Torrential rains in Brazil have eroded parts of a fossil site, revealing what scientists think could be the world’s oldest known dinosaur skeletons.The “almost fully preserved” dinosaur fossil, discovered next to a reservoir in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, could be around 233 million years old, researchers say.They suspect the fossil creature lived during the Triassic Period, when all of the Earth’s continents were a single landmass called Pangea, and dinosaurs had just emerged.Researchers suspect the unearthed fossil belongs to a member of the Herrerasauridae family of carnivorous dinosaurs that grew to about 2.5m in length.These...

Several dead in Yemen floods as search for missing goes on

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