BBC News coverage on Chilean Earthquake of magnitude 8.8

CNN News coverage site: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/index.html?hpt=T1

Information about Murray Darling Basin How serious is the drought? Very serious. This is the worst drought on record in the Murray-Darling Basin since record keeping began in the 1890s. Some parts of the Murray-Darling Basin have been in drought since 2001, and storage levels are so low that it will take many years of above average rainfall to recover. How does it affect South Australia? South Australia, the driest state, is located at the end of the river system. We need large amounts of water to flow into the River Murray from up-stream so that we have enough to live on, to run our farms, businesses, and look after the environment. In recent years, the River Murray system has received extremely low inflows. The current record low amount of water flowing into our state means there is less water available for all users. Nearly 4000 South Australian irrigators source their water from the River Murray. Their supply has been severely restricted, causing hardship for our agricultural and horticultural industries and regional communities. And so on...

A brief text on Haiti earthquake - Causes (plate boundaries), Intensity, Infrastructure etc.

The 7.0-magnitude Haiti earthquake would be a strong, potentially destructive earthquake anywhere, but it is an unusually strong event for Haiti, with even more potential destructive impact because of the weak infrastructure of the impoverished nation. Sliding plates: Earthquakes typically occur along the jigsaw-puzzle pieces of Earth's crust, called plates, which move relative to one another, most of the time at an imperceptibly slow pace. In the case of the Haiti quake, the Caribbean and North American plates Intensity and infrastructure: Another factor in the damage that a quake can cause is it intensity. While magnitude is a measurement of how much energy is released by an earthquake, intensity is "simply an estimate or a measure of how strongly that earthquake was felt," said Don Blakeman, an earthquake analyst with the United States Geological Survey.

Links to videos, photos, story of the survivers, facts and figures of the hurricane Katrina. Facts and figures: http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/katrina/facts/facts.html

If you are interested, here are more facts and figures: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0906_050906_katrina_facts_2.html (Katrina and other hurricanes) http://www.throughtheeyeofthestorm.com/KatrinaFacts.htm Searching national geographic website leads to many photo galleries, news articles and videos of hurricane Katrina

BBC in-depth report on hurricane Katrina. Contains the path of the hurricane, photos of affected area, videos and articles.

Similar page: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/katrina/ BBC Special Report home on Hurricane Katrina: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/americas/2005/hurricane_katrina/default.stm