Deadly storms hit Australian city &#39;like a quake&#39;
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Rescue workers are urging thousands of people to evacuate their homes after deadly storms lashed Australia&#39;s east coast, leaving parts of one city looking like an earthquake had struck, officials said Sunday.
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Indonesia, December 29: &quot;The water is coming, the water is coming,&quot; shouted terrified survivors on Wednesday, three days after huge earthquake-triggered waves pulverised the provincial capital of Aceh in Indonesia.
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Australia&#39;s southern state of Tasmania was rocked by the world&#39;s largest earthquake in three-and-a-half years when it struck under the sea half way between Australia and Antarctica on Friday, seismologists said.
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Melbourne: Early breaking news of the devastation wrought by the tidal waves, perhaps the worst in human history, that lashed the southern and eastern coasts of India and elsewhere in Asia yesterday did not convey to people abroad the true, tragic
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YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia  - A powerful earthquake   struck around Indonesia's royal city of Yogyakarta on Saturday,   killing more than 3,000 people as houses and buildings   collapsed near ancient heritage sites.
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Heavy rains caused flooding across parts  of eastern Australia on Saturday, forcing the evacuation of  hundreds of people as rural towns throughout the area were put  on flood alert.
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Firefighters around Australia's largest city have tamed a spate of wildfires that destroyed seven homes and left hundreds of thousands of people without power.
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The world's biggest earthquake in almost four years, measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale, was registered off the coast of Australia's southern island state of Tasmania, seismological officials said.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia  -- A powerful earthquake hit Indonesia on Wednesday, causing buildings to sway strongly in the capital, and authorities issued a tsunami warning for much of the Indian Ocean region.
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JAKARTA - At least 500 people were killed and hundreds more were missing feared dead Sunday after a huge earthquake off northern Indonesia triggered giant tidal waves and flash floods across western Asia.
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The world&#39;s biggest earthquake in almost four years, measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale, struck off the coast of Australia&#39;s southern island state of Tasmania early on Friday, but caused no damage or injury.
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At least 100 people have been killed in Indonesia after a huge earthquake triggered a tidal wave that washed people out to sea and tore children from their parents&#39; arms in coastal cities.
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A freak summer hail storm left ice blanketed across large parts of Australia's drought-hit capital Canberra on Wednesday, forcing some businesses and government departments to close due to storm and flood damage.
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Yhousands of people are reported dead around southern Asia, most by massive waves that smashed coastlines around the region after a magnitude 8.9 earthquake in Indonesia on Sunday morning, followed by reports of a strong aftershock felt in the
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Freak summer storms lashed eastern Australia overnight, dumping record rains on Melbourne, hitting Brisbane with a towering dust storm and leaving at least two people dead, officials said.
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Homes are destroyed and towns under threat as bush fires rage in four states in Australia.
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: Rescue teams scoured collapsed buildings for survivors on Saturday following a deadly earthquake on the Indonesian island of Alor, where at least 19 people were killed.