Category Red Alert

State of emergency declared in RM of St. Louis, Sask., Canada

A state of emergency has been declared because of flooding in the rural municipality of St. Louis, south of Prince Albert, Sask.   The villages of Hoey, Domremy and Bellevue are included in that area.   A number of roads…

Landslide kills 4 and 9 are missing in Indonesia

Four people were killed and nine others remain missing after a landslide buried homes on Indonesia’s main island of Java, an official said.   A landslide triggered by a pipeline explosion on Tuesday engulfed eight homes and trapped villagers in…

Lightning kills 15 in 7 Asian districts

Lightning strikes killed 15 people in Sunamganj, Jamalpur, Sherpur, Dinajpur, Gaibandha, Chittagong and Chandpur districts on Saturday. In Sunamganj, six people, mostly farmers, were killed and three others injured by thunderbolts during a Nor’wester that lashed different upazilas of the…

‘All hell broke loose’ as Cyclone Quang tore through Exmouth, Australia

PHOTO: The carport collapsed onto a boat in Exmouth as cyclone Quang approached. (Supplied: Mick Exmouth shire president Turk Shale said people were unprepared as winds tore down fences, trees and power poles this morning.)   “We’ve just got a…

Pyroclastic flows destroy village on southern flank at Sinabung volcano in Sumatra, Indonesia

Image: @endrolewa / twitter A series of strong pyroclastic flows occurred yesterday 28 April 2015, reaching 3-4.5 km distance. The largest, at 18:20 local time touched and burnt the (evacuated) village of Guru Kinayan on the southern slope of the…

Bird flu epidemic becoming critical in parts of USA

Wisconsin’s poultry farms are under a state of emergency, declared this past week by Gov. Scott Walker. National Guard forces are helping as avian flu spreads. As of late Tuesday, yet another Wisconsin turkey flock had been decimated with the…

8 Tornadoes Hit Texas, USA

A band of tornadoes that swept across parts of rural Texas over the weekend flattened buildings, tore the roofs off other structures and forced people to rush for shelter, the National Weather Service said Monday.   National Weather Service meteorologist…