A Volcano near Japan's capital Tokyo has erupted on Monday morning and white smoke is billowing and volcanic ash, carried by winds, are falling on the Tokyo. "Mt Asama, straddling Gunma and Nagano prefectures,...
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Fiji has issued a state of emergency and a severe flood warning for the island as days of heavy rain have hit the nation. Thousands of people are taking shelter in emergency shelters and more rain means more...
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The earth's most abundant resource, and still we have trouble finding adequate clean drinking water for nearly 1 billion people worldwide. Climate forecasts can play a role in planning for meteorological events that contaminate and pollute water...
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UPDATE: 4:20PM EST - May 3 Severe tropical cyclone Nargis continued to lash Myanmar's main city today."Electricity supplies in Yangon have been cut since late Friday night as the storm bore down from the Bay...
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Global warming has become an internationally recognizable issue, and more people have been focus on making better alterations to evade this problem. For this year there is a good news, that the temprature will...
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Banda Aceh (ANTARA News) - Banda Aceh Municipality and Aceh Besar District have been covered by haze from Sumatra forest fires over the past few days, however it did not affect flights at Sultan Iskandar Muda airport.The haze had covered Aceh since last week, head of the...
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Jakarta (ANTARA News) - A strong 6.3-magnitude quake hit off
Indonesia's Maluku islands early Monday, but there were no reports of
casualties or damage, the meteorological agency said.
The underwater quake hit at 5:26 am local time (2026 GMT Sunday) and
was centered 190...
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"A strong 6.2-magnitude quake struck Indonesia's Papua province on Monday, damaging about 25 houses and sparking fires but causing no casualties, the meteorological agency, officials and residents said.The earthquake was centred eight kilometres (five miles) northwest of the...
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"A strong earthquake hit Bima and Dompu, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Province, early Monday, killing at least two persons, injuring hundreds of residents, and destroying hundreds of houses.The earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale was felt by the Dompu residents at...
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"A strong earthquake of 6.7-magnitude struck off Sumbawa island in southeastern Indonesia early Monday, killing one and injuring 45, the health ministry said.The toll was "one dead and 45 people injured," ministry spokesman Rustam Pakaya told AFP. He confirmed that the victim...
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Bandarlampung (ANTARA News) - The National Meteorological and Geophysics office (BMG) reported that three earthquakes shook Indonesia early Thursday, respectively in Timika (Papua Province), Tolitoli (Central Sulawesi), and Blitar (East Java).
At 3.02 am Western Indonesian...
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""Most probably the quakes were caused by horizontal shifts in the continental plates," said Subardjo, a seismology expert with the Indonesian meteorological agency.
"So although similar amounts of energy were released, it had a different effect than when the quakes are...
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"The epicenter of the aftershock was located at 2.83 degrees southern latitude and 100.11 degrees eastern longitude at a depth of 54 km.
Earlier at 07.16 am WIB, an aftershock measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted 97 km southwest of Painan, West SUmatra, at a depth of 67...
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A zero-emisions spacecraft. The genii at Kampula Space Center have submitted documentation suggesting that it's possible: a positively-charged electron sail that would repel the negatively-charged solar wind, driving the craft away from the sun. Such a craft would have to be...
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