Category Red Alert

At least two tornadoes tear through North Texas, USA

Neighbors and friends help clean up after Thursday night’s tornado passed the area on Friday, May 8, 2015 in New Fairview, Texas. Strong storms spawned several tornadoes and dumped heavy rain on North Texas overnight, flooding roads and damaging train…

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…