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Katrina Rita Wilma Dennis Stan Struck Off Storm Register
Geneva (AFP) Apr 10, 2006 Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Dennis and Stan have been removed from the international list of names for storms because of the damage they wrought last year as hurricanes in the Caribbean and United States, the UN weather agency said Friday. An approved alphabetical list of 21 first names is traditionally used each season to dub tropical storms, cyclones and hurricanes, and each list is recycled every six years. The World Meteorological Organisation's international hurricane committee has "retired" 67 names since 1953 because the storms they were tied to caused large loss of life and property. But it is the first time so many names have been struck off after a single season, WMO spokesman Mark Oliver said after the committee met this week in Puerto Rico. "It's because of the associated damage and death toll with these particular storms," he explained. They will be replaced with Don, Katia, Rina, Sean and Whitney in the list that will next be used in 2011, the WMO announced. Last year, meteorologists ran out of names and were obliged to resort to the letters of the Greek alphabet, following a record season of 27 storms that were severe enough to merit names. Katrina caused about 1,300 deaths last August in the southern United States and devastated the city of New Orleans, while 2,000 people were killed when Hurricane Stan swept through Mexico and Central America. The removal of names also helps to avoid confusion in legal and scientific circles, which generally have to examine the impact of severe hurricanes for some time after they struck.
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Online Tour Of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Launched
San Francisco (AFP) Apr 07, 2006A computer-generated recreation of the seismic pounding taken by San Francisco during the devastating 1906 earthquake was launched online Thursday by the US Geological Survey. |
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