140 EARTHQUAKES have been detected on the Island of La Palma under the Cumbre Vieja volcano.

The seismic swarms are being monitored by the Canary Islands Volcanological Institute (Involcan), that is operated by The Canary Islands Seismic Network. They have detected a new swarm of quakes below La Palma's Cumbre Vieja volcano.

As of around 4 am on Monday morning a grand total of 138 seismic events had already been detected. They have registered in at depths varying between 15 and 20 kilometres under the western slope the Cumbre Vieja volcano. The maximum magnitude that has been recorded so far has been 1.8 on the Richter scale.

According to Involcan both visitors to La Palma and local residents are not in any danger and should not be worried about the seismic swarm, as the depth of the earthquakes combined with the small magnitudes is not currently any cause for concern. What has been requested though is that the population keep aware of their environment and ensure they are fully aware of what to do if the volcanic activity starts to change.

A tsunami was not expected after a 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck in sea southeast of Easter Island, Chile, the U.S. Tsunami Warning Center said.

The quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.21 miles)with its epicenter about 1,483 km southeast of Hanga Roa, Easter Island, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

(Reporting by Shubham Kalia in Bengaluru; Editing by Himani Sarkar)

There has been another fatal avalanche in Switzerland taking the death toll to 17 this season. Overall in the Alps it is now more than 50 - already half the annual average. In the latest incident 1 person has died & police said others may be buried under the snow, but no other victims have been found so far. It follows 4 deaths in the Tirol over the weekend.

It is one of the most dangerous periods in recent years across the Alps.

There have been more than 50 deaths so far this winter and it comes as many resorts are closed.

Extreme caution is urged across many parts of the Alps.

In the latest incident a 31-year old snowboarder has died and it was feared others may still be buried under avalanche debris in the La Fouly ski area that is above Orsieres near Verbier in the Valais Canton.

Here are the latest snowfall totals from around New York City and the Tri-State area.

More than 17 inches has fallen in Central Park and other parts of the city.

Meanwhile, totals have surpassed 30 inches in parts of northwest New Jersey, including 32 inches in Newton and 30 in Mendham. Totals also topped two feet in Bloomingdale, Passaic County, where 26.2 inches have been reported so far.

Not far behind was Harrison, Westchester County with 24.5 inches.

A period of heavy rainfall in France has caused rivers to rise and prompted authorities to issue flood warnings for 18 departments in the north and south west of the country.

More than half a month's worth of rain fell in parts of France in 24 hours from 31 January to 01 February, according to Meteo France. River levels are high and as of 02 February, 18 departments were under Orange level (3 of 4) warnings for flooding, including 3 departments in the north and 15 in the south west.

On 01 February a Red level warning was issued for the Maronne river in Argentat, Corrèze department. On 02 February the Maronne river at Basteyroux, Argentat-sur-Dordogne, reached 3.31 metres. Around 150 people were evacuated. The warning has since been downgraded.

Torrential rains caused flash floods Tuesday morning in Izmir, blocking main arteries in the downtown area and surrounding districts of Aliağa, Foça and Dikili. Calling the situation a disaster, the municipality urged residents not to leave their homes unless necessary. Media outlets, quoting the governor's office, said one person was killed in the floods in the province's Menderes district. Teams with Izmir Metropolitan Municipality are working around the clock to drain excess water.

Some streams in the Balçova district overflowed, and many residences and businesses in Karabağlar and Bayraklı were especially hit hard by the floods. Vehicles got stuck in the muddy waters, causing traffic jams in the early morning rush hours. The Turkish State Meteorological Service (TSMS) had previously warned of heavy rainfall for the province, which had started during the night and gradually increased its effectiveness. More severe rainfall was predicted for Tuesday, both for Izmir and nearby Aydın province.

"I have been living here for 30 years and have never seen such a disaster," Mehmet Akyol, a resident of Çetin Emeç neighborhood in Balçova district where a stream was clogged with debris and cars drifted by floodwaters piled up on each other, told Anadolu Agency (AA). Indeed, authorities announced that the rainfall, equivalent to what is normally seen over the entire month of February, battered the province in just eight hours. Municipality crews struggled to drain waters while Mayor Tunç Soyer called on motorists not to hit the roads for a while amid the flood danger. Soyer tweeted that streams overflowing their banks due to the rainfall caused disruptions to tram and bus services in some parts of the province. IZBAN, the province's main commuter rail system, temporarily suspended its service on one line. Soyer said extraordinary rainfall almost evolved into a disaster. Though floods are common during heavy rainfall in the province, it was unusual this time. Mayor Soyer later said in a written statement that the province had "18% of rainfall normally seen throughout the entire year." "126 kilograms of rainfall hit per square meter. This is a serious figure," he said. It was almost equal to the amount of rainfall that caused another flood disaster in the province in November 1995 when 61 people were killed. Izmir was also hit by floods in December though their density was lower.

Bermuda and Guam are islands separated by more than 14,000 km (8,700 miles), yet both suffered record cold over the weekend-a further indication of the global cooling we're all now experiencing.

The British Overseas Territory of Bermuda, located in the North Atlantic, set a record low temperature on Saturday-one coming hot on the heels of last Thursday's powerful winter storm, the island's fiercest in a decade.

The Bermuda Weather Service (BWS) confirmed Saturday morning's low.

"This morning's minimum reached a very chilly 49.1F (9.5C)," said a BWS spokesperson. "This sets a new record low for the date surpassing the previous record of 51.4F (10.8C) back in 2005. Our unofficial wind chill measurement produced a 'feels like temperature' near 40F (4.4C). Brrrrr!"

At least three dead left this Sunday a strong storm in the Paraguayan capital, which also caused the fire from a fuel tank of the state oil plant Paraguayan Petroleum (Petropar) on the outskirts of the city, authorities reported.

The rapids and the overflowing of streams also caused landslides and floods in several municipalities of the metropolitan area such as those of Luque, Mariano Roque Alonso and Limpio, with hundreds of families who momentarily left their homes, according to the media and video images on social networks.

Police sources confirmed the death of three people, a grandmother and her two grandchildren, aged 6 and 8, after the displacement of land from a ravine that buried the precarious home they occupied in the La Chacarita neighborhood of Asuncion.

Two unidentified men aged 22 and 21 died in Glendale, Mashonaland Central province after they encroached the edges of the flooded Mazowe River while taking pictures from their mobile phones before both slipped and drowned.

Mazowe assistant district development coordinator Willard Masimba confirmed the incident and urged people no to go to close to flooded rivers.

The incident happened a few hours after Bindura District development coordinator Richard Chipfuwa had issued a flood warning to communities in the Bindura, Mazowe area after two dams, Candy and Iron Duke, burst their walls resulting in the flooding of Mazowe River.

A Glendale resident Brian Jonga said Candy and Iron Duke dams burst their walls at around 7 am Sunday morning.

An official count in the park, home to the world's biggest concentration of rhinos, found it had lost two thirds of its animals in less than 10 years.

There are 3,549 white rhinos and 268 rarer black rhinos in the park in northeastern South Africa. In 2011 the white rhino population was estimated to be 10,621 and the black rhino 415. The decline has been most rapid since 2015 when there were estimated to be close to 9,000 white rhinos in the park.

Conservationists urged international governments to put pressure on South Africa to act urgently to halt the decline.

It had been hoped that a decrease in rhino poaching would have revived the species. But the latest figures, published in the South African National Parks annual report for 2019/2020, suggests that there is less poaching only because of a scarcity of rhino in Kruger.