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Five people were killed in a landslide in Uttarakhand and the meteorological department Monday warned of another round of incessant downpour within 48 hours. Heavy rain pounded the state 10 days back. Officials have been asked to be “extra vigilant”…
A summer monsoon thunderstorm has made it’s return to the valley. The storm is welcome relief after a week filled with high temperatures and some days prompting an excessive heat warning. Just after 4:30 p.m. Friday the storm…
In less than a week, the toll in landslide-related incidents rose to five in the Uttarakhand hill districts with two fresh casualties reported late Wednesday in Chamoli district. Executive director Puish Rautela of the Uttarakhand Disaster Management Response Centre…
A roughly one-kilometer (0.6-mile) wide piece of land fell from a mountain near Askja stratovolcano on Monday night. Several 50-meter (164-feet) tidal waves crashed on the rocks around the lake in Askja during the night. According to estimates, 50 to 60 million…
A three-year-old boy and his younger brother were buried under tons of earth after a landslide occurred in Rodriguez, Rizal, early Wednesday. The fatalities were identified as Rodgie Amor, 3, and his six-month-old infant brother Jhon Michael. In…
Typhoon Matmo caused the evacuation of thousands of people along China’s southeast coast after it came ashore in Fujian province. The 10th typhoon to impact China in 2014, Matmo is moving northward after landfall Wednesday. Heavy rains were reported across the…
Extreme weather caused by Typhoon Rammasun has killed 27 people in Vietnam, with the storm unleashing flash floods, landslides and lightning strikes, authorities say. Heavy rain flooded more than 7,000 houses and thousands of hectares of cropland, with the north…
The death toll from the strongest storm to hit China for decades has reached 46 with another 25 missing, authorities said Tuesday, as another typhoon approaches the country’s eastern coastline. Typhoon Rammasun has left 19 people dead in south China’s…
Two houses were buried and seven others are at high risk of landslide at Lahan village district committee (VDC) in Jajarkot district, police said. The houses of Yub Raj Rawal and Ram Bahadur Pun of Kalimati, Lahan VDC-8 of…
A makeshift camp for internally displaced persons, in the grounds of a church in Muse, northern Shan State, was flooded by rains in May Five people were killed in a camp for displaced Kachin civilians near the rebel-held town of…
