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Japan suffers from a strong earthquake
The US Geological Survey (USGS) announced that there was another strong seismic shaking in northeastern Japan - which had suffered heavy losses due to the double earthqu…
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Philippines: 25 people died from storm Nock-ten
At least 25 people died and 31 were missing when the tropical storm Nock-ten entered the Philippines, with heavy rain causing flooding and landslides.
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Specialist disaster warning in the Northern Hemisphere
The world's leading expert on Arthur Saltykovski volcano, the Institute of Earth Physics named Schmidt predicts: In the next one or two decades, the Yellowstone volcano…
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Earthquake in Fukushima, Japan power plant area
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck the Pacific Ocean early this morning, near the area once destroyed by seismic and tsunami in Japan.
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Alarms from nuclear power plants in the US: Contaminated water leaks into the environment
The US Congress alarmed that three-quarters of the 65 nuclear power plants in the United States are experiencing radioactive water leaking to the outside environment for…
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Earthquake of 7.4 on Richter caused tsunami warning in the US
A seismic intensity of up to 7.4 on the Richter scale rocked the Aleutian volcanic island chain, in the US state of Alaska. Tsunami warning was given, but was retracted…
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Japan planted radiation-resistant sunflowers
Last March earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused a nuclear disaster that made Cesi (Cs) radioactive material quite high in Fukushima prefecture and surrounding areas.
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China: Flooding, 54 people died
Heavy rains from early June helped reduce severe drought in central and southern China but led to flooding that left at least 54 people dead and more than 100,000 people…
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Earthquake in Quang Ninh province
At 11:55 am 25 seconds (Hanoi time) on June 13, in the area of Yen Hung district (Quang Ninh) a small earthquake occurred.
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News of tropical depression near the East Sea
At 1 hour on June 20, the position of the tropical depression center is about 19.5 degrees North latitude; 121.3 Kinh Dong, about 90 km from Lu - Dong Island (Philippine…
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The worst flood in 55 years attacked China
Extensive and extensive rains over the past few days have affected about two million people in Guangxi, Zhejiang, Hunan and Hubei provinces.
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Red alert of the risk of Southwestern forest fire in the United States
The US National Weather Agency has just announced a red alert on the risk of forest fires across the entire Southwest due to very high air temperatures, low humidity and…
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News of tropical depressions in the East Sea
At 01:00 on June 21, the position of the tropical depression center was about 19.6 degrees North latitude; 117.0 degrees east longitude, about 450km from Hong Kong (Chin…
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Tin storm on the East Sea - Storm No. 2
Tropical depressions on the East Sea have intensified into storms (storm No. 2). It is forecasted that the northern provinces will have moderate rain, heavy rain, some p…