A strong and shallow earthquake registered by the USGS as M6.0 hit the Gulf of Aden at 21:07 UTC on August 27, 2026 (00:07 LT on August 28). The agency is reporting a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), while EMSC is reporting M6.0 at a depth of 18 km (11.2 miles).
Several plumes of dust can be seen blowing off the coast of the African continent, over bodies of water, towards the Arabian Peninsula. The largest dust plume can be observed in the upper left quadrant, blowing northeastward over the Red Sea, off the coast of Sudan,
A massive Saharan dust plume has drifted west over the Atlantic Ocean and the Cape Verde Islands, located 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa.GOES, a US geostationary weather satellite, captured the below image of the dust Friday. The image presents the
