Category Building Damage Alert

Flood Alert As Warragamba Dam Spills Over In Sydney, Australia

Sydney’s giant Warragamba Dam is overflowing for the first time in two years after a period of heavy rainfall. The dam lies about 70km (43 miles) west of the city and is the largest urban water storage facility in the…

Landslide kills at least 8 in Indonesia

Eight people are missing and feared dead after a major landslide hit a road in remote eastern Indonesia, an official said Tuesday (Aug 25).   Heavy downpours in an isolated mountainous region of Papua province triggered the landslide Sunday, burying…

280,000 told to evacuate as typhoon hits Japan

The Japanese authorities advised 280,000 people to evacuate their homes as Typhoon Goni lashed southern Kyushu island and western Japan, bringing torrential rains and winds gusting at more than 180kmh.   The risk of landslides prompted officials in Yamaguchi prefecture…

Massive gas storage blasts kill 11, mostly children in Afghanistan

At least 11 people, most of them children, were killed after a series of explosion at an Afghan gas storage facility triggered a fire in a nearby settlement for displaced people, officials said on Tuesday.   It was not immediately…

Tornado Tears Through Australian Town

Severe Heavy flooding, landslide after torrential rains pound north-eastern Turkey

Travel chaos as Typhoon Goni cancels 140 flights in Hong Kong and Shanghai

More than 140 flights were cancelled in Shanghai and Hong Kong as Typhoon Goni continued to pummel the northern Philippines while churning across the Pacific Ocean towards Japan and Korea on Monday.   As it moved northwards at 22km/h, with…