Yes, Hurricane Melissa affected seismic activity, but it did not cause a crack in the seafloor that will lead to a major earthquake. Our expert debunks a viral claim.

Rescue efforts across the nation of 23 million have been hampered by disruptions in transport and telecommunications.

A bomb cyclone is a rapidly intensifying storm that forms when cold air meets warm ocean waters, often bringing powerful winds, heavy snow or rain.

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A bomb cyclone is a meteorological term that describes a low pressure system whose size, strength and intensity increase rapidly in just a short amount of time.

Hurricane Melissa, an intense Category 5 storm, threatened to bring catastrophic winds, heavy rainfall, flash floods and landslides as it tracked through the northern Caribbean and neared landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday. Melissa was then forecast to cross ...

IMD said that “the minimum distance of the centre of the cyclone from north Tamil Nadu-Puducherry coasts is about 80 km.”