Category Major Events

Commuter Alert, Damage Reports, Earth Subsistance Alert, Emergency Updates, Evacuation Alert, Fallen Trees Alert, Flash Flooding Alert, Gale Force Wind Alert, Landslide Alert, Major Events, Mudslide Alert, Rain Alert, Rescue Alert, Road Closure Alert, Severe Flood Alert, Severe Weather, Vehicle Alert

Landslide blocks crucial Gangotri highway in Uttarakhand, India

Heavy rains triggered landslide in Uttarakhand on Saturday blocking the crucial Gangotri highway near Raturi Sera village. Locals and tourists alleged that no assistance from the administration reached them, hours after the disaster struck. The disaster comes at a time…

Earth Extremities
July 18, 2015

Damage Reports, Emergency Updates, Evacuation Alert, Gale Force Wind Alert, Lightning Alert, Major Events, Rescue Alert, Severe Weather, Thunderstorm Alert

Severe storm forces 15,000 scouts to evacuate in France

Some 15,000 teenaged scouts from all over Europe had be evacuated from a camp in France in the early hours of Saturday after a violent storm hit the area, with more than a dozen injured. Scouts and Guides France,…

Earth Extremities
July 18, 2015

Building Damage Alert, Commuter Alert, Damage Reports, Emergency Updates, Evacuation Alert, Fire Alert, Major Events, Red Alert, Rescue Alert, Road Closure Alert, Vehicle Alert, Wildfire Alert

Wildfire Sweeps Over Freeway Burning Cars In California, USA

Earth Extremities
July 18, 2015

Bridge Closure Alert, Building Collapse Alert, Building Damage Alert, Damage Reports, Emergency Updates, Evacuation Alert, Fallen Trees Alert, Flash Flooding Alert, Gale Force Wind Alert, Homeless Alert, Major Events, Power Lines Down Alert, Power Outage Alert, Rain Alert, Red Alert, Rescue Alert, River Alert, Road Closure Alert, Severe Flood Alert, Severe Weather, Tidal Surge Alert, Train Alert, Typhoon Alert, Vehicle Alert

Typhoon Nangka Kills at Least Two, Wreaks Havoc Crossing Japan

Typhoon Nangka barreled across the western end of Japan’s largest main island on Friday, snarling transport, leaving at least two men dead and prompting authorities to advise nearly 100,000 people to evacuate. Rivers burst their banks in the western…

Earth Extremities
July 17, 2015

Emergency Updates, Major Events, Wildfire Alert

Wildfire strikes Athens, Greece

Earth Extremities
July 17, 2015

Building Collapse Alert, Building Damage Alert, Damage Reports, Emergency Updates, Evacuation Alert, Explosion Alert, Fire Alert, Major Events, Pollution Alert, Rescue Alert

Massive Explosions Rocks Mill Plant In Cheshire, UK

Four people are unaccounted for after two explosions and a fire at a wood mill in Bosley, Cheshire, say rescue services. Three people have been taken to hospital with burns and a major incident has been declared around the site…

Earth Extremities
July 17, 2015

Bridge Closure Alert, Building Collapse Alert, Building Damage Alert, Commuter Alert, Damage Reports, Emergency Updates, Evacuation Alert, Fallen Trees Alert, Flash Flooding Alert, Homeless Alert, Major Events, Power Lines Down Alert, Power Outage Alert, Power Station Alert, Power Transformer Alert, Rain Alert, Red Alert, Rescue Alert, Road Closure Alert, Severe Flood Alert, Severe Weather, Typhoon Alert, Vehicle Alert

Typhoon Nangka pounds Shikoku; pair dead; hundreds of thousands told to flee

A strong typhoon made landfall Thursday night on Shikoku, leaving two people dead and a number of other people injured. Authorities urged hundreds of thousands of people there and elsewhere to evacuate, while transportation services were crippled. Typhoon…

Earth Extremities
July 16, 2015

Commuter Alert, Emergency Updates, Evacuation Alert, Flash Flooding Alert, Hailstorm Alert, Lightning Alert, Major Events, Rescue Alert, Severe Weather, Thunderstorm Alert

Severe hailstorm prompts use of snowplows in South Dakota city, USA

(Photo: Karen Maudlin / AP) A brief but intense hailstorm that dropped as much as 4 inches of slippery pellets in a South Dakota city prompted officials to call out snowplows in the middle of summer. Pennington County Sheriff’s…

Earth Extremities
July 16, 2015

Building Damage Alert, Commuter Alert, Damage Reports, Emergency Updates, Evacuation Alert, Fallen Trees Alert, Flash Flooding Alert, Lightning Alert, Major Events, Power Lines Down Alert, Power Outage Alert, Rain Alert, Rescue Alert, Road Closure Alert, Severe Flood Alert, Severe Weather, Thunderstorm Alert, Vehicle Alert

Freak storms cause major damage in Carinthia, Austria

Trees were uprooted in Klagenfurt. Photo: Hiebaum/ORF Parts of Carinthia in the south of Austria were hit by freak thunder and hail storms on Wednesday night, exactly a week after massive hailstones injured several people in the province In Gegendtal…

Earth Extremities
July 16, 2015

Building Collapse Alert, Building Damage Alert, Damage Reports, Earth Subsistance Alert, Emergency Updates, Evacuation Alert, Fallen Trees Alert, Landslide Alert, Major Events, Monsoon Alert, Mudslide Alert, Rain Alert

Massive landslide buries 3 classrooms; kills 1 and injures 12 in Nepal

A landslide triggered by heavy monsoon rains buried parts of a school in western Nepal on Thursday, killing a student and injuring 12 people The police said the landslide buried three classrooms at the school in Pokhara, where students were…

Earth Extremities
July 16, 2015

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