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Japan still faces the risk of super-earthquakes
A year after the tsunami earthquake, Japanese people in Tokyo still have to live in a sense of anxiety when scientists in the country recently issued a warning about the…
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Central America suffered from many natural disasters
The report of the United Nations Commission on Regional Economy of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) announced on March 12 said that the number of natural disaster…
Environment
Taiwan shook by the earthquake
Taiwan Weather Forecasting Agency (CWB) announces an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale. It happened in Binh Dong district in the morning of Februar…
Environment
Strong earthquake in Russia
A earthquake and many aftershocks rocked Russia's Siberia region but did not cause human and property damage.
Environment
Japanese tsunami garbage to Hawaii
The waves of tsunami swept after the double disaster in northeastern Japan last year are very close to the Hawaiian Islands, and will reach the west coast of the United…
Environment
Tornadoes died 9 people in central America
A terrible storm with many tornadoes swept through the center of the United States, killing at least 9 people and threatening to continue to harm when poured into the ea…
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America: Six more people died from tornadoes
A series of violent tornadoes claimed the lives of at least six people in the state of Indiana yesterday and caused great damage in Tennessee and Kentucky states.
Environment
Many earthquakes will happen near Fukushima
The recollection of the Japanese people's earthquake and tsunami disaster in March 2011 has not yet eased, and there are further forecasts that there will be many earthq…
Environment
The world has a record hot January
January 2012 was ranked 19th in the list of the hottest Januarys since 1880, according to research papers from the US National and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Environment
Detection of radiation 650km from the Japanese coast
Radioactivity from the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima plant was discovered about 650 km away from the Japanese coast, in the Pacific Ocean, with a radiation index 1,0…
Environment
Heavy flooding in South America, many people died
Bolivian President Evo Morales has declared a state of emergency all over the country because of flooding, which seriously affected the lives of about 9,000 households a…
Environment
WB helps Vietnam cope with urban flood risks
The World Bank (WB) said on February 14 that it will continue to support Vietnam in controlling and coping with flood risks through loans, technical assistance and input…
Environment
Australia suffered the most severe flood
Tens of thousands of Australians are facing the most serious flood in 35 years in the country.
Environment
Earthquakes in the Philippines have killed 43 people
AFP news agency quoted a Philippine military official as saying that the number of fatalities in the magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Central Vietnam this morning increased t…
