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Three people died and 47 others were injured across Japan as a powerful typhoon moved through the country’s southernmost main island of Kyushu on Thursday morning after lashing the islands of Okinawa, local press reported. Neoguri, the season’s eighth…
Eight northern provinces are warned of flash floods and landslide from 8-10 July 2014 while the Ministry of Interior is closely monitoring the weather in order to assist the affected people in time. Director-General of the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation…
Search ongoing for at least 17 people missing after landslide in Yunnan province At least 17 people are missing after a landslide in southwest China’s Yunnan province early Wednesday, according to Chinese media. Xinhua news agency said the landslide occurred…
Unrelated to Typhoon Neoguri the rainy season front as brought severe flooding and landslides across northern Japan. The worst has been in the Hokoriku region where over 30,000 people have been told to evacuate. One location in the region “鹿児島県…
The Japan Meteorological Agency warned that severe weather from Typhoon Neoguri would continue, the eighth typhoon of the season. The storm had lost some strength by Wednesday, packing winds of 126 kph (78 mph) with gusts of up to…
This was caused by the increased risk of flooding due to heavy rains. Only for one hour 70 millimeters of rain fell in the region on Monday morning, RIA Novosti reported. In Kumamoto, Kagoshima, Nagasaki prefecture and at Kyushu island…
Alert has been declared in the west of Mexico on the territory of Colima, Michoacan and Jalisco states because of the tropical storm “Elida.” As the representatives of the National System of Civil Defense (NSCD) reported on Tuesday, the cyclone…
An official said Friday that flash floods and landslides caused by Thursday’s heavy downpours have left three people missing and hundreds of others displaced in Sukabumi district of West Java. Mud rushed down from a 40 meter-high hill in Purabaya…
A spokesman for the Emergency Ministry reported on Sunday that six children were killed and seven people went missing and are presumed dead after a mudslide hit south Tajikistan. Floods and landslides are common in the country as more than…
A large landslide Friday morning destroyed a Carroll County, Ky., home and closed the state highway at the bottom of the hill for nearly seven hours. Mud, rocks and debris broke away a ledge toward the top of the…
