Bangkok may dodge flood disaster: PM
BANGKOK: Receding floodwaters north of Bangkok have reduced the threat to the Thai capital, the PM said on Saturday , but high tides in the Gulf of Thailand will still test the city’s flood...
Category: Geophysical
Major Nor’Easter To Dump More Snow On Southern New England
BOSTON (CBS) – A major nor’easter is about to pound southern New England with heavy rain, snow and wind.
Ash Cloud Rises Above Restive Chilean Volcano
SANTIAGO, Chile – Chile’s Hudson Volcano released three huge columns of steam and ash that combined in a cloud more than 3 miles high on Friday, threatening a much larger eruption that had authorities...
Obama Has Declared Record-Breaking 89 Disasters So Far in 2011
And as America’s hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and wildfires set records this year, so too has President Obama in his response to them.
Geologists closely monitoring surge in central Arkansas quakes
LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Geological Survey says it is stepping up its monitoring of seismic activity in central Arkansas after dozens of small earthquakes in the region.
Halloween Freak Snow Hits Northeast
More than two million residents along the eastern seaboard as far north as Connecticut reportedly were without power Saturday after a freak October nor’easter threatened to dump more than a foot of snow on...
