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Once-a-century 5.8 mag quake rocks US East Coast

Lily Kuo and Malathi Nayak Reuters 08/23/2011
With Hurricane Irene Near, 370000 in New York City Get Evacuation Order

New York officials on Saturday urged residents in evacuation areas to leave immediately as Hurricane Irene started to pummel the North Carolina coast.

Once-a-century 5.8 mag quake rocks US East Coast

A strong earthquake rattled the East Coast on Tuesday, sending tremors as far as Canada, damaging well-known buildings in the nation's capital and sending scared office workers into the streets.

Hunt for tornado survivors looking bleak

Kevin Murphy Edmonton Journal 05/25/2011
Hunt for tornado survivors looking bleak

First they found his dark blue teddy bear. Then frantic relatives searching for toddler Skyular Logsdon spotted his red T-shirt and pants, torn, rain-soaked and wrapped around a telephone pole. The little boy hasn't been seen since Sunday night when a massive tornado ripped through the centre of Joplin, Mo., killing at least 123 people and leaving many more missing.

116 killed by Missouri tornado, tying it for deadliest on record

The toll from the tornado that ripped through Joplin soared to 116 on Monday, a city official said, tying it for the single deadliest twister to ever hit American soil since the National Weather Service began keeping records 61 years ago.

Tornadoes batter central US, kill unknown number

KURT VOIGT Yahoo! News 05/22/2011

Farmers Along Mississippi See Crops Washed Away

MARY FOSTER and HOLBROOK MOHR AP 05/13/2011
Tornadoes batter central US, kill unknown number

A massive tornado that blasted its way across southwestern Missouri on Sunday slammed into this city with apocalyptic force, tearing into a hospital, upending dozens of cars and scrubbing entire neighborhoods to the earth, leaving only a forest of splintered tree trunks behind.

Farmers Along Mississippi See Crops Washed Away

In an agonizing trade-off, Army engineers said they will open a key spillway along the bulging Mississippi River as early as Saturday and inundate thousands of homes and farms in parts of Louisiana's Cajun country to avert a potentially bigger disaster in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. About 25,000 people and 11,000 structures could be in harm's way when the gates on the Morganza spillway are unlocked for the first time in 38 years.

Italians evacuate Rome over 'big one' fears

Nick Pisa Telegraph 05/10/2011
Eight dead after earthquake hits Spain

Thousands of residents of the southeastern Spanish city of Lorca slept outside Wednesday night, hours after the city of about 80,000 was struck by an earthquake that killed eight people, state radio reported, citing authorities.

Italians evacuate Rome over 'big one' fears

Italians are fleeing Rome todayover fears a giant earthquake is coming following a seismologist's 1915 prediction that "the big one" will strike on May 11, 2011.

Tornadoes devastate US South, killing at least 297

GREG BLUESTEIN and HOLBROOK MOHR Yahoo! News 04/28/2011
Mississippi floods force evacuations near Memphis

The rising Mississippi river lapped over downtown Memphis streets on Thursday as a massive wall of water threatened to unleash near record flooding all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.

Tornadoes devastate US South, killing at least 297

Firefighters searched one splintered pile after another for survivors Thursday, combing the remains of houses and neighborhoods pulverized by the nation's deadliest tornado outbreak in almost four decades. At least 297 people were killed across six states — more than two-thirds of them in Alabama, where large cities bore the half-mile-wide scars the twisters left behind.


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