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M5.1 Earthquake Strikes off Coquimbo, Chile
Two earthquakes struck off Coquimbo, Chile, six minutes apart late Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, local time, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The larger, magnitude 5.1, struck at 9:30 p.m. Chile…
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Five Flood Warnings Hit Georgia, South Carolina and Florida
The National Weather Service had five Flood Warnings in force across Georgia, South Carolina and Florida late Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026. Two of the warnings, for rivers in Florida, were newly issued.…
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NWS Confirms EF2 Tornado Struck Bonnie Doone, With a Second Twister Near Linden, North Carolina
The National Weather Service confirmed that an EF2 tornado tore through Bonnie Doone, North Carolina, and an EF1 tornado hit Linden, North Carolina, during the Oct. 11, 2026, tornado outbreak that…
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Severe Thunderstorms Snap Power Lines Across Kansas City Area
Severe thunderstorms crossed the Kansas City metro area and central Kansas overnight Oct. 13–14, 2026, snapping power poles and downing trees and power lines across the region, the National Weather…
NewsNWS Confirms EF2 Tornado Struck Candor, North Carolina, Collapsing Community Center Walls
The National Weather Service's office in Raleigh, North Carolina (NWS Raleigh), confirmed an EF2 tornado near Candor on Oct. 11, 2026. The tornado's peak winds reached 115 mph, in one of three damage…
NewsTropical Storm Trudy Is Forecast to Become a Major Hurricane by Friday off Southern Mexico
Tropical Storm Trudy formed in the eastern Pacific on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, after the National Hurricane Center upgraded Tropical Depression Twenty-One-E and raised its top sustained winds to 40…
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Greece Issues Red Wind Warning for North East Aegean Islands as Attica Floods
MeteoAlarm, the European severe-weather alert service, issued a Red wind warning, rated Extreme severity, for Greece's North East Aegean Islands, set to begin at 02:00 UTC Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026,…
ArticleAt Etna, the Ash Forecast Built From Etna's Own Eruptions Did Worst
On the morning of June 17, 1996, Mount Ruapehu threw ash across the North Island of New Zealand and dropped it hundreds of kilometers downwind. Airports closed. The paper's account of that eruption's…
NewsSouth Carolina's Barnwell County Tornado Upgraded to EF-2
The National Weather Service upgraded a tornado that hit Barnwell County, South Carolina, from EF-1 to EF-2. The agency's damage-survey update, released Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, raised the tornado's…
NewsGreece Raises Weather Alert to Red for East Sterea & Evvoia
MeteoAlarm, the European weather-alert network, raised its alert for Greece's East Sterea & Evvoia region to Red, its highest awareness level, after issuing Red Thunderstorm and Red Rain warnings for…
NewsParaná River Flooding Evacuates 185 Families in Ciudad Del Este, Paraguay
Flooding from the rising Paraná River has evacuated 185 families, about 700 people, from the San Rafael neighborhood of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. Paraguay's national emergency authority, the…
NewsCarolinas Tornado Outbreak's First EF2s Confirmed, Destroying North Carolina Barn
National Weather Service damage surveys confirmed the Carolinas tornado outbreak's first two EF2-rated tornadoes, the agency said Monday, Oct. 12, 2026: one in Duplin County, North Carolina, with…