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Massive landslide crushes homes killing at least 7 in Central China

Landslide burying several homes in central China’s Hubei Province killed at least 7 people on Saturday, authority said. According to local government report, the rain-triggered landslide tore through 4 houses in Xuan’en County of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture…

Major hailstorm causes devastating damage to many homes in Mubende, Uganda, Africa

Residents of Kookoowe Village, Kassanda sub-County in Mubende District are counting losses after a severe hailstorm coupled with strong winds struck on Friday. The heavy rain left a number of houses with roofs and destroyed some gardens.

Tornado devastates 7 villages in Jamalpur and Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh

Tornado ripped into seven villages of Jamalpur and Lalmonirhat district yesterday, damaging over 200 dwelling houses.   Our Jamalpur correspondent reported that at least 100 houses were damaged as a tornado lashed Lauchapra village under Kamalpur union of Bakshiganj upazila…

Emergency evacuation alert sparks panic as Tropical Storm Fung-Wong heads for Taiwan

Taiwan evacuated almost 1,000 people from endangered areas as Typhoon Fung-Wong, which left at least 10 dead in the Philippines and caused Manila’s worst flooding in two years, approached packing wind gusts as strong as 120kph.   Fung-Wong, Phoenix in…

Apocalyptic floods affect 2.3 million in Pakistan

Sher Muhammad, 85, looked on with a sense of bewilderment: “I have not seen such a flood, not since around the time of partition [1947].” As the flood emergency deepens in Pakistan, now affecting nearly 2.3 million people, humanitarian teams…

Emergency disaster declared due to severe flooding and landslides in parts of the Philippines

Following the heavy downpour last Wednesday night until yesterday, floods and landslides were reported in Cebu City and different areas of the province.   PDRRMO reported rock falls along the Transcentral Highway in the boundary between Balamban town and Cebu…

Ex hurricane Odile leaves trail of destruction along Baja, heavy rain poised to inundate parts of Southwest

Even though the Atlantic hurricane season is certainly not very busy, the impacts from tropical cyclones on people and places within the United States cannot be ignored. We are about to see once again how tropical moisture from an east…