Category State Of Disaster Alert

MAJOR QUAKE MAGNITUDE 7.9 – SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND

Subject To Change Depth: 10 km Distances: 208 km SW of Wellington, New Zealand / pop: 382,000 / local time: 00:02:56.9 2016-11-14 97 km NE of Christchurch, New Zealand / pop: 364,000 / local time: 00:02:56.9 2016-11-14 61 km…

Heavy rains swell rivers in parts of Balkans

A man crawls onto the roof of a flooded car in Kashar, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the capital Tirana. Tuesday Nov. 8, 2016. Albanian authorities have sent army troops and other personnel to help people evacuated because of floods…

Vietnam floods kill seven

At least seven people have been killed and two are missing after fresh flooding in central Vietnam.   The dead and missing were all reported in Quang Binh province where rainfall of up to 966 millimetres was reported, the National…

Italy’s strongest earthquake in 36 years reduces towns to rubble

Walls collapse exposing the inside of a home Italian towns hit by a 6.6 magnitude earthquake have been warned they could be hit by a “domino effect” of aftershocks.   People were pulled from the rubble in towns across central…