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Powerful 8.1 magnitude earthquake hits off Mexico

The magnitude 8.1 quake struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico on September 7, 2017 at 11:49 local time (September 8 at 04:49 UTC), leaving more than 90 people dead and another 200 injured. The earthquake...

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Texas beaches likely to erode, be overwashed, or inundated by Hurricane Harvey

USGS Coastal Change Forecast model predictions indicate that Hurricane Harvey is likely to cause significant beach erosion along the Texas coastline, with water overtopping dunes and in some cases inu...

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Residents evacuate after mudslide hits Swiss-Italian border village (video)

On Wednesday, August 23rd, a mudslide slid down the side of Piz Cengalo Mountain, near the Swiss – Italian borders, forcing the residents of an Italian village to evacuate and leaving 8 people missing...

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Devastating landslide hits Sierra Leone’s capital: Death toll rises to 500

The side of Mount Sugar Loaf in the Regent District of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, collapsed in the early hours of Monday, 14 August 2017, after a night of heavy rainfall, destroying dozens of h...

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Earthquake on Italian holiday island leaves at least two people dead and 39 injured

A 4.3-magnitude earthquake hit the Italian holiday island of Ischia at 8:57 p.m. local time on Monday night. Up to now, two women have been reported dead, one of whom having been hit by falling masonr...

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Large sinkhole opens up in Florida

The sinkhole begun to form on Friday, July 14, 2017, in the Pasco County's Land O' Lakes community near Tampa, western Florida and has already swallowed two houses. Although the sinkhole does not a...

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Deadly M6.6 earthquake hits Kos Island, Greece

Two people have been killed and about 200 have been injured due to the earthquake that occurred near the island of Kos, Greece on Friday, 21 July, 2017. The magnitude Μ6.6 earthquake struck at 1:31...

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Unprecedented rainfall leaves at least 11 dead in Japan

As of Friday, July 7, 2017, eleven people are confirmed dead and 14 are still missing, after three days of extreme rainfall caused massive flooding and landslides in many parts of Kyushu, southwestern...

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Deadly landslide occurs in Sichuan province, China

Fifteen people have been confirmed dead and more than 100 are still missing, due to the landslide that took place early Saturday in Sichuan province, south-western China. The side of a mountain col...

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Tsunami waves leave 4 people dead in Greenland (video)

A very large landslide or the shallow M4.0 earthquake registered by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), 28 km north of the village of Nuugaatsiaq, in the western coast of Greenland,...

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