While much of the mid-Atlantic and New England continues to suffer from residual flooding and power outages in the wake of Irene, a new storm in the Atlantic bears some watching.Katia became a tropical storm early Tuesday morning after first forming as a tropical
Tropical Storm Talas will gather typhoon strength south of Japan before midweek and could ultimately make a landfall as a typhoon in southeastern Japan, west of Tokyo.TC Warning TextPrognostic Reasoning Talas, as a tropical storm or typhoon landfall, would bring
The Mount Etna volcano in Sicily, Italy, erupted for the twelfth time this year on Monday.Throughout 2011, activity at Sicily’s Mount Etna has been characterised by paroxysms: short, violent bursts of activity. Each event has included volcanic tremors, ash
Two rain-triggered landslides buried hundreds of homes in eastern Uganda on early Monday morning, the Red Cross said on Tuesday, raising the number of fatalities to 40.The deadliest landslide happened at around 1 a.m. local time on Monday in Mabono village, which is
A strong earthquake 6.8 magnitude struck in Banda Sea. Epicenter was 272 km (169 miles) NNE of Dili, Timor-Leste and337 km (209 miles) SSW of Ambon, Moluccas, Indonesia. Epicenter was on depth of 465 km (289.0 miles). It didn’t triggered tsunami waves.The
Downgraded a notch to a Category 1 storm, Hurricane Irene made landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina just after dawn Saturday. Residents up and down the East Coast are now dealing with Irene’s aftermath. Tropical Storm Irene swept through the desolate
High above Earth in the realm of meteors and noctilucent clouds, a strange and beautiful form of lightning dances at the edge of space. Researchers call the bolts "sprites"; they are red, fleeting, and tend to come in bunches. Martin Popek of Nýdek in t
The Germany Czech border area has been hit by an earthquake swarm with mainly very weak quakes, the strongest ones measuring 4.0 and 3.6. The earthquakes started their sequence on Tuesday.Cheb / Vogtland is a seismically active area where the seismographs did
Irene is a category 1 Hurricane with sustained winds of 85 m.p.h. Its effects so far have included 4 deaths in North Carolina, hundreds of trees uprooted, power outages, and structural damage. Structural damage, though minor so far in most places, has also been of a
Typhoon Mina continue to weaken as it part of Cagayan today, the state weather bureau said.In its latest bulletin, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) spotted Mina at 50 km northeast of Aparri at 4 p.m.
