Earthquake felt widely in Los Angeles area.

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  • Hurricane Milton latest LIVE: At least 10 dead but Florida spared 'worst case scenario' as storm moves into Atlantic

    More than three million Florida homes and businesses without power and 1,900 flights have been cancelled

  • Hurricane Milton death toll rises to 17 with 1.8m still without power as flooding threat to last ‘weeks’: Live

    Wind and storm surge warnings for Milton have been discontinued but hazards in the hurricane’s aftermath remain

  • Florida residents are returning to flooded streets and homes gone after Milton

    There wasn’t much more than piles debris from shattered homes when Vickie Ward returned to her Grove City, Florida, neighborhood after Hurricane Milton.

  • Hurricane Milton: nearly 3.3 million without power in Florida as category 3 storm makes landfall

    Powerful storm slams into coast, bringing deadly storm surge to Sarasota, Tampa, St Petersburg and Fort Myers

  • Strong solar flare could bring northern lights as far south as Alabama

    Coronal mass ejection hits Earth and ‘severe’ geomagnetic storm could disrupt power grids and hit satellites and GPS

  • 'Party atmosphere': Skygazers treated to another aurora show

    Scientist Jim Wild has travelled to the Arctic Circle numerous times to study the northern lights, but on Thursday night he only needed to look out of his bedroom window in the English city of Lancaster.Wild said his neighbours had travelled to Norway twice to see the northern lights -- but had been foiled by clouds both times.

  • At least 11 dead in Florida but Hurricane Milton not as bad as feared

    At least 11 people died as Hurricane Milton sent tornadoes spinning across Florida, officials said Thursday as the state grappled with flooding, power outages and other woes from a milder than expected storm that many had feared would be catastrophic.The southeastern US state was able to avoid the level of catastrophic devastation that officials had feared.

  • What officials are saying in aftermath of Hurricane Milton

    Floridians awoke Thursday morning with the worst of Hurricane Milton largely behind them but a long road to recovery still ahead. Hurricane Milton made landfall Wednesday evening as a Category 3 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph, in Siesta Key, Fla., 5 miles west of Sarasota and about 70 miles south of the…

  • Here’s how to qualify for FEMA aid — including the $750 payment

    That $750 has been mischaracterized by several high-profile politicians, including former President Donald Trump.

  • Milton rips hole the size of a basketball court in Melbourne Orlando Airport's roof: Watch

    Melbourne Orlando International Airport has a 30-foot hole in the roof from Hurricane Milton, which made landfall across the state hours earlier.

  • 'This was powerful': man who rode out Milton in mobile home

    STORY: :: This man survived two hurricanes from his mobile home in St. Petersburg, Florida:: St. Petersburg, Florida:: Jerald Gilchrist, Hurricane survivor"I’ve seen the road get flooded, but never like this. And this much damage – I mean this was powerful. When it came and hit the side of the trailers, it sounded like an aircraft carrier, I mean not a carrier, but a plane coming in, and I mean it just shook the whole building.”:: October 10, 2024:: While most of his neighbors evacuated the area, Gilchrist is one of the few left"For the few years I got left, I’d like to stay here, but you know. It gets scary and to evacuate it's more of a pain in the neck." "If it was gonna go, I was gonna go, too. So, just trying to protect it, you know. But if I had to do it again, I don’t think I would. Matter of fact, during the storm, I thought about that, you know, that I made a bad decision.”The floodwaters in Gilchrist’s mobile home park were as high as three-and-a-half feet in certain parts. The retired truck driver said he’d never seen it this bad since moving to Florida from Stamford, Connecticut 11 years ago.Residents of St. Petersburg, Florida, who decided to ride out Hurricane Milton despite dire warnings and mandatory evacuation orders emerged from their homes on Thursday morning to find their city largely intact after the powerful storm's overnight passage.In the downtown, situated alongside Tampa Bay, many streets avoided flooding, boats in the city marina fared well and damage to the city's buildings appeared limited.That is not to say the city came away completely unscathed. The hurricane's shredding winds ripped a gaping hole in the fabric roof of St. Petersburg's Tropicana Field, home of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team, scattered tree limbs across many streets and brought down power lines.

  • Florida issues emergency rule to prevent ‘post-storm fraud’ by insurers

    TAMPA - On Wednesday evening, just before Hurricane Milton made landfall on an already storm-battered region of Florida, state officials issued an emergency rule to protect homeowners against “unfair and deceptive acts” and “post-storm fraud” by insurance carriers. Florida insurance officials sent the decree to all licensed adjusters in the state, and a copy was obtained by The Washington Post.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washingto

  • Residents slog through flooded streets, clear debris after Hurricane Milton tore through Florida

    Florida residents slogged through flooded streets, gathered up scattered debris and assessed damage to their homes on Friday after Hurricane Milton smashed through coastal communities and spawned a barrage of deadly tornadoes. At least 10 people were dead, and rescuers were still saving people from swollen rivers, but many expressed relief that Milton wasn’t worse. The hurricane spared densely populated Tampa a direct hit, and the lethal storm surge that scientists feared never materialized.

  • Dome of sweltering NT heat set to spread across vast swathes of Australia

    Country’s south will likely bask in temperatures up to 8C hotter than normal next week and the balmy weather could trigger thunderstorms, BoM says

  • More cities are getting hit by back-to-back disasters, which complicates everything from insurance to rebuilding

    A town hit hard by two hurricanes, downpours and a deep freeze, all in the midst of a pandemic, offers crucial lessons for everyone’s disaster planning and recovery.

  • Romanian authorities beef up preventative measures after devastating flooding

    Local officials in Galați put the total cost for repairs in the county at around €150 million and say the region could be faced with a similar price tag every time flooding happens.View on euronews

  • America Forgot a Crucial Lesson From Hurricanes of the Past

    History reveals that even weakening storms do catastrophic damage when they hit mountainous regions.

  • Hurricane Milton was not the storm people feared - but the storm of US politics is just getting going

    The coastline from Fort Myers to Tampa and a little beyond was all part of an evacuation zone as the authorities warned of a once-in-a-generation storm and the meteorologists tried to determine where it would hit. And his surrogate, Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, wrote on social media: "Yes they can control the weather," adding "It's ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can't be done."

  • Hurricane Milton damage: What was left behind by the ‘storm of the century’ versus other hurricanes

    HURRICANE MILTON: HOW ‘STORM OF THE CENTURY’ COMPARES, IN VISUALS : Deaths, power outages, and billions in destruction; the damage of Hurricane Milton is still unfolding, but is it one of the worst this century? Alicja Hagopian and Julia Musto report

  • Far from where Hurricane Milton hit, tornadoes wrought unexpected damage

    Tony Brazzale, a diving boat captain who has lived for 10 years in his Wellington home in southeastern Florida, wasn't worried about Hurricane Milton. Two days later Brazzale was wearing safety goggles and using a chainsaw as he cleaned up the damage. It was one of dozens of tornadoes spawned by Milton that hit South Florida far from where the storm made landfall near Sarasota.